Faculty Highlights 2010: School of Nursing

Kenya Beard presented “Rheumatoid Arthritis: Improving Outcomes with Drug Therapy” at the American College of Nurse Practitioners, Tampa, FL, October 2010.

Margot Desevo published “Genetics and Genomics Resources for Nurses” in the Journal of Nursing Education, 49, (2010, 8). She presented “Genetics and Breastfeeding: There is a Relationship” at the Westchester/Putnam/ Rockland Lactation Consortium, Phelps Memorial Hospital, White Plains, NY, October 2010.

Patricia Donohue-Porter presented “Preventing Medication Errors” at the Improvement Science Summit, San Antonio, TX, July 2010.

Patricia Eckardt, Maryann Forbes, Patricia Donohue-Porter, Holly Shaw, Yiyuan Sun, Joan Valas, and Jane White presented “Service Learning and Civic Engagement: Research in Undergraduate Nursing” at the Annual Conference on Undergraduate Research, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Council on Undergraduate Research, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, October 2010. Dr. Eckardt also presented “Theoretical Framework for Causal Modeling and Observational Studies” at Evidence-Based Practice: Breaking Traditions, Marriot Hotel, Melville, NY, October 2010; and “Psychometrics and Pain Measurement” at the Annual Conference on Pain, St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center, Smithtown, NY, December 2010.

Xianqiong Feng, with L. Acord, Y. Cheng, J. Zeng, and J. Song, published “The Relationship between Management Safety Commitment and Patient Safety Culture” in the International Nursing Review, (2010, 10). Dr. Feng presented “The Relationship between Management Safety Commitment and Patient Safety Culture” at the Honor Society of Nursing STTI Leadership Summit, Arlington, TX, October 2010.

Maryann Forbes published, with M. Hickey and S. Greenfield, “Integrating the Institute of Medicine Competencies in a Baccalaureate Curricular Revision: Process and Strategies” in the Journal of Professional Nursing, 26 (4), (2010, 7).

Marilyn Klainberg published, with K. Dirschel, Today’s Nursing Leader: Managing, Succeeding, Excelling (Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, LLC, 2010).

Andrea McCrink published “Academic Misconduct in Nursing Students: Behaviors, Attitudes, Rationalizations, and Cultural Identity” in the Journal of Nursing Education, 49(11), (2010, 11), and “Ethical Nursing Practice: Why It Should Concern Us All” in Nursing for Women’s Health, 14(6), (2010, 12).

Maureen Roller presented “The Relationship of Motivators and Barriers to Exercise Adherence in the Older Adult at an Assisted Living Facility” at DNP, ANP-BC, R.N. Sigma Theta Tau International Research Congress, Orlando, FL, July 2010.

Holly Shaw presented the following: “U.N. Task Force Issues and Challenges: STTI Honor Society of Nursing” at the U.N. Headquarters, New York, NY, August 2010; “Advocacy for Global Collaboration in Nursing” at the 63rd Annual U.N. NGO/DPI Conference, Melbourne, Australia, August 2010; “The Nursing Role in Global Health Initiatives” at the Nursing Students’ Association of New York, Latham, NY, October 2010; “Healing, Resilience, and Recovery: Hope and Optimism Midst Complex Challenge” at Pilgrim Africa, Seattle, WA, November 2010; “The Nurse’s Role in Global Health Initiatives and Achieving U.N. Millennium Development Goals” at Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Region 14 Conference, December 2010; “Issues in Global Nursing U.N.” at the U.N. Headquarters, New York, NY, December 2010; “Global Public Health: Achieving the MDGs in a Time of Crisis and Opportunity” at the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations, Melbourne, Australia, August 2010; and “Mental Health Challenges: Former Child Soldiers in Uganda” at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Louisville, KY, October 2010.

Yiyuan Sun presented “Traditional Chinese Medicine and Complementary and Alternative Therapy for Cancer Patients” at Asian Initiatives, American Cancer Society Easter Division, Flushing, New York, November 2010.

Jane White, cowrote, with C. Soto, “School Health Initiatives for Childhood Obesity” in Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice, 11, (2010, 8).