Faculty Highlights: College of Nursing and Public Health

Helen Ballestas published, with C. Caico, Pathophysiology of Nursing: Demystified (New York: McGraw- Hill, 2013). She and Maureen Roller cowrote the article, “The Effectiveness of a Study Abroad Program for Increasing Students’ Cultural Competence” in the Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 3 (6), p. 125–133, 2013. Dr. Ballestas presented “Capturing the Momentum of Developing Future Nurses: A Workshop Designed to Develop a High School Intensive Program for the Minority Nursing Student” at the Center for Teaching and Learning, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, July 2013. She and Dr. Roller presented “Cultural Competence Research: Baccalaureate Nursing Students in Costa Rica” at the Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society 42nd Biennial Convention, Indianapolis, IN, November 2013.

Margot De Sevo wrote “Competency of Nurse Educators in Genetics/ Genomics Knowledge” in the Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 3, p. 123–129, 2013.

Patricia Donohue-Porter wrote the book chapter, “Narratives of Courage: The Voice of Clients in Community Health Nursing,” in Community Health Alliance for Care, p. 123–143 (Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2013). She published “Nursing’s Role in Courage Development in Patients Facing Complications of Diabetes” in the Journal of Holistic Nursing, 31 (1), p. 49–61, 2013. Dr. Donohue-Porter, with Patricia Eckardt (Robert B. Willumstad School of Business), Kenneth Rondello and Joyce Silberstang (Robert B. Willumstad School of Business), presented “Building Bridges in Leadership Communication: LMX Theory’s Impact on Nursing Administrative Relationships” at the Eastern Nursing Research Society, Boston, MA, April 2013. Dr. Donohue- Porter also presented the following: “Theoretical Underpinnings of a Culture of Inquiry” at the Eastern Nursing Research Society, Boston, MA, April 2013, and, with L. Thomas, “Methodological Concerns in Medication Error Research” at the Improvement Science Summit, San Antonio, TX, July 2013.

Patricia Facquet wrote, with Patricia Eckardt, the book chapter, “Epidemiology: Validity and Reliability in Evidence,” in Community Health Alliance for Care, Second Edition, (Burlington: Jones & Bartlett, 2013).

Clarilee Hauser wrote the book chapter, “Health Policy and Evidence-Based Research in the Community: Creating Relatedness,” in Community Health Nursing, An Alliance for Health, Second Edition, (Gaithersburg: Jones & Bartlett, 2013).

William Jacobowitz wrote “PTSD in Psychiatric Nurses and Other Mental Health Care Providers: A Review of the Literature” in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 34 (11), p. 787–795, 2013. He presented, with B. Derbabian, “The Effect of a Calorie-Restricted Diet on Weight Gain in Short- Term Psychiatric Inpatients Receiving Atypical Antipsychotic Medication” at the New York Presbyterian Health System Annual EBP Conference, Academy of Medicine, New York, NY, November 2013.

Ditsapelo McFarland published “Associations of Demographic Variables and the Health Belief Model Constructs with Pap Smear Screening Among Urban Women in Botswana” in the International Journal of Women’s Health, 5, p. 709–716, 2013. She gave two presentations: “Item Generation and Content Validation of the Cervical Cancer Belief Scale” at the Eastern Nursing Research Society Conference, Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel, Boston, MA, April 2013, and “Cervical Cancer and Pap Smear Screening: Raising Awareness” at the Village Tribal Grounds, Tonota Village, Botswana, July 2013.

Deborah Murphy, with L. Jacono, C. Wells and L. Wolforde, presented “The Dedicated Education Unit: A Model for Fostering Healthy Work Environments” at Sigma Theta Tau International Conference: Creating Healthy Work Environments, JW Marriott Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN, April 2013.

Anne Peirce coedited with J. Smith, Ethics for the Advanced Practice Nurse (Lancaster: DEStech Publications, 2013).

Janet Raman wrote “Nursing Student Success in an Associate Degree Program” in Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 8 (2), p. 50–68, 2013. She presented “Nursing Student Success in an Associate Degree Program” at the Elsevier/Mosby’s Faculty Development Institute, Las Vegas, NV, January 2013.

Maureen Roller presented “Process-Oriented Guided- Inquiry Learning (POGIL) in Fundamental Nursing Education” at the Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society 42nd Biennial Convention, JW Marriott Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN, November 2013.

Tonya Samuel published “Standardizing a Process to Engage African-Americans in Health Research: The Community Research and Outreach Worker Network” in Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 8 (1), 2013.

Ahmet Sapci presented “Telemedicine and Remote Patient Monitoring Training Best Practices” at the American Telemedicine Association Annual International Meeting, Austin, TX, May 2013.

Joan Valas wrote the book chapter, “Ethical Considerations in the Care of Vulnerable Adult Populations” in Ethical and Legal Issues for Doctoral Nursing Students, p. 103–128 (Lancaster: DEStech Publications, 2013). She, Maryann Forbes and Jane White copublished “An Innovative Master’s Education Program to Prepare Graduates for the Practice Setting” in the Journal for Nurses in Staff Development, 29 (3), p. 120–125, 2013. Dr. Valas presented, with K. Andress, “Meeting Medical Needs of the Public During a Disaster: Collabor-ative Shelter Planning” at the World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Manchester, United Kingdom, May 2013.

Thomas Virgona published the following: “First Responders to Superstorm Sandy: An Information Technology Assessment” in the Journal of Nursing and Health Science, 2 (1), p. 51–56, 2013; “How Cognitive Science Has Influenced the Applied Science of HCI ‘The Evolution that Envies the Revolution’” in the Journal of Computer Engineering, 13 (3), p. 23–29, 2013; “Towards an Epistemological Definition of the Research Front of Information and Society” in the Journal of Business and Economics, 4 (3), p. 202–221, 2013; and “Graduate Nursing Student Self-Assessment: Fundamental Technology Skills” in the Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 3 (3), p. 61–66, 2013.