Recent News
Connell School Junior Wins First Prize for Research Poster
Jen
Engel, Connell School Junior and Undergraduate Research Fellow, wins
first prize for the Student Poster Award at the 21st Annual Conference
of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, in Kissimmee, FL (Oct
3-6, 2007). more »
Doctoral Candiate Recieves Coveted NRSA Funding
Lisa
Duffy, MS '02 and PhD(c) was recently awarded a prestigious Ruth L.
Kirschstein National Research Service Award for her project titled
"COPE: Intervention for Parents of Children with Epilepsy." more »
Ph.D. student Hannon-Engel awarded NRSA
Sandy Hannon-Engel, a doctoral student in the Connell School of Nursing, has been awarded a National Research Service Award (NRSA), for her project entitled “Role of Altered CCK Response in Bulimia Nervosa.” more »
Recent Scholarly Publications
- Allen J.D., Stoddard A.M., Sorensen, G.C. (2007). Do social network characteristics predict mammography screening practices? Health Education and Behavior, July 9, Epub ahead of print.
- Allen J.D., Kennedy M., Wilson-Glover A., & Gilligan T.D. (2007). African-American men's perceptions about prostate cancer: implications for designing educational interventions. Social Science in Medicine, 64, 2189-2200.
- DeMarco, R. & Minnich, C.A. (2007). Men’s experiences viewing an HIV/AIDS prevention education film by and for women. American Journal of Men’s Health, 1 (3), 183-189.
- Flanagan, J. & Jones, D. (2007). Nursing language in a time of change: capturing the focus of the discipline. International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classifications, 18(1), 1-2.
- Flanagan, J., Devereaux Melillo, K., Abdallah, L., & Remington, R. (2007). Interpreting laboratory values in the rehabilitation setting. Rehabilitation Nursing, 32(2), 77-84.
- Fontenot, H. (2007). Transition and adaptation to adoptive motherhood. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 36(2), 175-182.
- Fry, S. T., & Grace, P. J. (2007). Ethical dimensions of nursing and health care. In J. L. Creasia, & B. Parker (Eds), Conceptual foundations: The bridge to professional practice (4th Ed.), 273-299. Edinburgh: Elsevier Mosby.
- Grace,
P. J., Willis, D. G., & Jurchak, M. (2007). Good patient care:
Egalitarian inter-professional collaboration as a moral imperative. American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Exchange, 10(1), 8-9.
- Perry,
D.J. & Gregory, K.E. (2007). Global applications of the cosmic
imperative for nursing knowledge development. In Roy, C. & Jones,
D. (Eds), Nursing knowledge development and clinical practice, 315-326. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
- Pulcini, J. (2007). State Children’s Insurance Plan: Congress can’t simply renew it, they must increase it. American Journal of Nursing, 107(3), 29-31.
- Pulcini, J., DeSisto, M., & McIntyre, L. (2007). School-based peak flow education and monitoring. Journal of School Nursing, 23(3), 170-176.
- McCarter-Spaulding, D., & Horowitz, J. A. (2007). How does postpartum depression affect breastfeeding? MCN, 32(1), 10-17.
- Vessey, J. A., Aries, S., Aubin, J. A., DeSisto, M., Geoghegan, C., Lopez, G., MacKenzie, C., Mcintyre, C. L., O'Brien, M. J., O'Neill, K. M., Pulcini, J., Read, M., Sheetz, A., & Sullivan, N. (2007). Development of the Massachusetts School Nurse Research Network (MASNRN): A practice-based research network to improve the quality of school nursing practice. Journal of School Nursing, 23(2), 65-72.
- Vessey,
J. A., Sherwood, J. J., Warner, D., & Clark, D. (2007). Comparing
hand washing to hand sanitizers in reducing elementary school students’
absenteeism. Pediatric Nursing, 33(4), 368-372.