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2004-2005

PRESENTATIONS

Chris Esperat, R.N., Ph.D., APRN, BC, FAAN presented at the following: (1) Plenary Speaker: “Translating research into practice: An evidence base to eliminate health disparities”. National Conference of the Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations (NCEMNA), March 11, 2005, Washington, D.C.; (2) Keynote Speaker: “Transformation for health: An agenda for research in health disparities”. Sigma Theta Tau Research Day, Nu Omega Chapter, University of North Carolina – Wilmington, March 31, 2005, Wilmington, NC.; and (3) Breakout Session (with Celia Glick, Principal, Harwell Elementary School): “Partnerships for school children’s health: The East Lubbock Coalition for Community Health Improvement”. 37^th Annual Conference of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN), July 1, 2005, Washington, D.C.

Esperat, C. (2005, August). Rural health disparities. Dean Maria Concepcion M. Roble Lectureship Series, Silliman University College of Nursing, Dumaguete City, Philippines.

Esperat, C. (2005, August). Transformation for Health. Center for Excellence in Nursing Regional Conference, Silliman University College of Nursing, Dumaguete City, Philippines.

Esperat, C., & Glick, C. (2005, June). Partnerships for school children’s health: The East Lubbock coalition for community health improvement. Concurrent Session Speaker, 37^th Annual Conference of the National Association of School Nurses. Washington, D.C.

Esperat, C. (2005, June). Core performance measures: Bureau of health professions. Respondent Panel, All-Grantee Conference, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C.

Alyce Ashcraft, Donna Owen and Du Feng presented a paper as follows: Ashcraft, A., Owen, D. & Feng, D. (2005, February). Using the Minimum Data Set and the Mini Mental State Examination for Determination of Level of Care along the Long-Term Care Continuum. The 19^th Annual Conference of the Southern Nursing Research Society. Atlanta Georgia.

Susan Andersen, APRN, Ph.D., B.C. has an abstract accepted by ONS. Andersen, S. (2005, April). Indigenous Helpers for Smoking Cessation. 30^th Annual ONS Congress in Orlando, FL.

J. Susan Andersen. (Nov. 2005). Testing the Transtheoretical Model for Smoking Cessation Research. Sigma Theta Tau 38^th Biennial Convention – Scientific Sessions.

Pat Allen, R.N., Ed.D., has been selected to participate in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Leadership for Academic Nursing Program. [Back to Top]

Barbara Johnston, R.N., Ph.D., served as the education leader for the Panhandle of Texas at Two Opinion Leaders’ Consensus Conference in Houston Texas (October and November 2004) in conjunction with a HRSA Grant “Bioterrorism and Emergency Preparedness in Aging” (BTEPA) awarded to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Center on Aging and the School of Nursing. Curricula content was developed by an interdisciplinary team of physicians, pharmacists, Geriatric NPs, nurse educators, psychologists, acute and long term care administrators and community health planners. The outcome is dissemination of BTEPA curriculum by incorporation into existing academic courses, offering electives, and continuing education programs in each of the Texas regions represented on the grant dissemination plan.

Barbara Johnston has been invited to speak at the National Student Nurses Association Meeting, April 7, 2005, Graduate Nursing Programs: Exploring Your Options.

Ana Valadez, R.N., Ed.D., CNAA, FAAN has been asked by the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing to participate in a Summit of Experts in Geriatric Education and Practice to be held in New York City March 10-11, 2005. The summit will explore the feasibility of Teaching Nursing Homes that will serve as model sites to improve overall preparation of the health professions workforce.

Ann Laurence did a podium presentations as follows:

November, 2005: West Texas Cares: A Collaboration to Educate Rural Caregivers, presented at the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aged annual conference in San Antonio, TX.

October, 2005: Caregiving Concerns for Women, presented at “At Time for Women” seminar, Lubbock, TX.

September, 2005: Step up to Healthy Aging, presented at the South Plains Advocate for Elders Conference, Lubbock, TX.

Heather Morris and Terry Curran presented papers at the NNCC Conference on October 10, 2005.

Barbara Cherry was invited to do a panel presentation entitled Real Businesses Accomplishing Business and Care Strategies, at the National Convention of the American Health Care Association/National Association for the support of Long-Term Care, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 16, 2005.

McKeon, L.M., Cherry, B., Ketterman, P., Thornton, T.D., Webb, S. & West, R. Transforming the practice environment: Leadership development at a distance. Presented at the Tennessee Nurses Association 2005 Annual Convention, Memphis, TN, October 22, 2005.

Myrna Armstrong did a presentation at the 23^rd Quandrennial International Council of Nurses Congress in Taipei, Taiwan. Title of presentation: National (USA) and International Regulations for Tattooing, Body Piercing and Permanent Cosmetics: Is there Public Protection?

Alyce Ashcraft and Jana Saunders were selected to attend the 3^rd annual End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Graduate Training Program in Pasadena, California, June 15,16, and 17^,2005. The purpose of the program is to provide graduate faculty with state of the science information on palliative care for dissemination to advanced practice nurses. Alyce and Jana are one of 220 graduate nursing faculty in the United States who has completed this course.

Brice, L.M. (2005, April). The West Texas Early Pregnancy and Chlamydia Study. 5^th Annual Southern States Knowledge in Nursing Conference: Advancing Knowledge of Minority Women & Children’s Health, San Antonio, TX.

Brice, L.M. (2005, April). The West Texas Early Pregnancy and Chlamydia Study. 21^st Annual Texas Tech University Women’s Studies Conference, Lubbock, Texas.

Linda Brice has received notification that she has two research abstracts accepted for presentation at the Southern Nursing Research Society (SNRS) Annual Conference, Memphis TN, February, 2006. [Back to Top]

Linda Brice has been selected to present two poster presentations at the AWHONN (Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics and Neonatal Nursing) Regional Conference to be held in The Woodlands, Texas, September, 2005. Presentations include: (1) Preterm Birth and Neonatal Complications Associated with Reproductive Tract Infections” and (2) West Texas Early Pregnancy and Chlamydia Project”.

Sharon Decker has done the following presentations:

Podium presentation: Enhancement of Student Critical Thinking through Collaborative Simulation Technology, 6^th National Conference on Nursing Skills Laboratories, San Antonio, TX, June 25, 2005.

Post presentation: Simulation and Education: An Ethical Dilemma, 6^th National Conference on Nursing Skills Laboratories, San Antonio, TX, June 24, 2005.

Media Presentation: Virtual Tour of the Clinical Simulation Center at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 6^th National Conference on Nursing Skills Laboratories, San Antonio, TX, June 24, 2005.

Under Construction: Building a Simulation to Use as a Teaching-Learning Strategy in a Skills Laboratory, 6^th National Conference on Nursing Skills Laboratories, San Antonio, TX June 23, 2005.

PUBLICATIONS

Esperat, M., Green, A., Acton, C. (2004). One vision of academic nursing centers. Nursing Economics, 22(6): 307-312.

Esperat, M., Feng, D., Owen, D., Green, A. Transformation for health: An organizing framework for health disparities research. Nursing Outlook.

Esperat, C., Green, A., and Acton, C. (2004). One vision of academic nursing centers. Nursing Economics, 22(6), 307-312.

Koch, J.L., Roberts, A.E., Cannon Harms, J., Armstrong, M.L. & Owen, D.C. (2005). College students, tattooing, and the Health Belief Model: Extending social psychological perspectives on youth culture and deviance. Sociological Spectrum, 25, 1-24.

Armstrong, M.L., Roberts, A.E., Owen, D.C. & Koch, J.R. (2004). Toward Building a Composite of College Student Influences with Body Art. Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing. 27(4), 273-291.

Koch, J.R., Roberts, A.E., Armstrong, M.L. & Owen, D.C. (2004). Religious belief and practice in attitudes toward individuals with body piercing. Psychological Reports, 95, 583-586.

Armstrong, M.L. & Elkins, L. (2005). Body Art and MRIs. American Journal of Nursing, 105(3), 64-66.

Caliendo, C., Armstrong, M.L. & Roberts, A.E. (2005). Self-reported characteristics of women and men with intimate body piercings. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 49(5) 474-484.

Armstrong, M.L. & Saunders, J.C. (2005). Experiences and influences of women with cosmetic tattooing. Dermatology Nursing 17(1), 23-31. [Back to Top]

Carol Boswell, R.N., Ed.D. and Sharon Cannon, R.N., Ed.D. have been published: Boswell, C. & Cannon, S. (2005). Critical thinking online: Can it be conquered? In L. Caputi (Ed.), Teaching nursing: The art and science. Vol. 3 (pp. 355-366). Glen Ellyn, Illinois: College of DuPage Press.

Cathy Collins, Sharon Decker and Karen Esquibel have a new publication: Collins, C., Decker, S. & Esquibel, K. (2004). Definitions of health: Comparison of Hispanic and African-American Elders. The Journal of Multicultural Nursing and Health. Fall, 2004, 10(3), 13-18.

Alyce Ashcraft, R.N., Ph.D., CS, CCRN, presented a paper (co-authored by Dr. Donna Owen and Dr. Du Feng) November 20, 2004 at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in Washington, D.C. on Using the MDS and MMSE for Resident Placement Along the Long-Term Care Continuum.

Boswell, C. & Cannon, S. (2004). Nurses’ Political Involvement: Responsibility versus Privilege. Journal of Professional Nursing.

Cherry, B. and Jacob, S. (Eds). (2005). Contemporary Nursing: Issues Trends & Management, 3^rd Ed. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby. Chapter Contributors: Ruth Ann Bridges and Alexia Green.

Boswell, C. & Cannon, S. (2004). Nurses’ Political Involvement: Responsibility versus Privilege. Journal of Professional Nursing.

Boswell, C. (2004). Mentoring. Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 84(4), pp. 46-47.

Boswell, C. & Cannon, S. (2005). Critical thinking online: Can it be conquered? In L. Caputi (Ed.), Teaching nursing: The art and science. Vol. 3 (pp. 355-366). Glen Ellyn, Illinois: College of DuPage Press.

Cherry, B. and Jacob, S. (Eds). (2005). Contemporary Nursing: Issues Trends & Management, 3^rd Ed. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby. Chapter Contributors: Ruth Ann Bridges and Alexia Green.

White, A., Allen, P., Goodwin, L., Breckinridge, D. & Dowell, J. Garvy, Ryan Infusing PDA Technology into Nursing Education. Nurse Educator. 30(4), 150-152, July/August, 2005.

Allen, P., Arnold, J. & Armstrong, M. Accessible, Effective Distance Education Anytime, Anyplace. Essentials of Nursing Informatics, 4^th Ed. Virginia K. Saba & Kathleen A. McCormick. October, 2005.

Seifert, C. & Johnson, B. (2005).A nationwide survey of long-term care facilities to determine the characteristics of medication administration through enteral feeding tubes. Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 20(3), 354-362.

Scott-Tilley, D., Marshall-Gray, P., Valadez, A., & Green, A. (2005). Integrating long-term care concepts into baccalaureate nursing education: The road to quality geriatric health care. Journal of Nursing Education, 44(6), 286-290. Donna Scott-Tilley has the following publications:

Scott-Tilley, D. and Brackley, M. (2004). Violent lives of women: Critical points for intervention – phase 1 focus groups. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care; The Journal for Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses, 40(4), 157-166.

Scott-Tilley, D. and Brackley, M. (2005). Men who batter intimate partners: A grounded theory study of the development of male violence in intimate partner relationships. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 26(3).

Saunders, J. & Cookman, C. (2005). A clarified conceptual meaning of hepatitis c-related depression. Gastroenterology Nursing, 28(2), 123-131.

Saunders, J. & Armstrong, M. (2005). Experiences and influences of women with cosmetic tattooing. Dermatology Nursing, 17(1), 23-28.

Saunders, J. (2004). Living with Hepatitis C: A nurse’s story. Gastroenterology Nursing, 27(5), 239-241.

O’Neal, C. (2004). Syllabus selections: Innovative learning activities. Journal of Nursing Education, 43(11).

Teddy Jones, R.N., Ph.D., C.S., F.N.P., has a new book published. A Stone for Every Journey. Sunstone Press. You can purchase a copy by clicking on www.sunstonepress.com. [Back to Top]

FACULTY RECOGNITION

Chris Esperat, R.N., Ph.D., APRN, BC, FAAN has been selected as a 2005 primary care fellow, DHHS Primary Care Fellowship Program. She has also been selected as a reviewer, Special Emphasis Panel to review grant applications in response to PA02-153 and PAR03-060 for the NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), March 23, 2005, Bethesda, MD. She has been selected as a Research Mentor for the Nurse Stimulation Program (NCEMNA). This program is funded by a $2.4 million grant from the NIH, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) focused on meeting the need to support the next generation of nurse scientists from ethnic/racial populations.

Chris Esperat has been inducted into the American Academy of Nursing. Another FAAN in our group.

Chris Esperat has been selected to join a group of national leaders in health policy related to primary health care for a one year fellowship whereby she will have the opportunity to further shape the future role of nurse managed centers in providing primary health care for our nation.

Alexia Green was chosen as the 2005 Nurse of the Year by the Texas Nurses Association. She received the award at the 5^th Annual Nursing Leadership Conference of TNA on September 15, 2005 in Austin.

Barbara Johnston has been nominated as a delegate alternate to the White House Conference on Aging. The Student Senate select faculty members as “Outstanding Faculty of the Year”. The three SON faculty chosen this year are Dr. Linda Brice, Sharon Decker, and Dr. Pat Yoder-Wise. They will be honored at a banquet hosted by the Faculty Senate.

Barbara Johnston is current an item writer for NLN Advanced Pharmacology examination.

Barbara Johnston has been chosen as the nurse consultant on interdisciplinary grant “Drug Marketing 101: Stop the Spin” submitted by Dr. Cynthia Raehl, P.I. of the School of Pharmacy.

Alyce Ashcraft has been selected to serve on the Research Grant Review Panel for the American Association of Critical Care Nurses for 2005-06.

Lynda Billings. Breakout Session Leader at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2005 Governing Board Conference, Closing the Gaps: Achieving Excellence. October, 2005.

Linda Brice is being honored as “Women That Makes Things Happen” at the first annual Zetal Phi Beta Banquet held January 22, 2005. The award is presented to women in the Lubbock area that have done an outstanding job in community service or business.

Linda Brice has been awarded a grant for $1,021 to the March of Dimes to be used by the Lubbock Coalition of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), Linda being a chapter member.

Linda Brice orchestrated the 3^rd Annual Stork’s Nest Baby Shower” on July 11^th, raising $15,464.80 in donated baby items and monetary donations, being $2,764.80 more than collected last year.

Susan Anderson received grant funding from the TTUHSC Cardiovascular Center for her research project entitled Towards an Intelligent Delivery System for Low Literacy Health Education”.

Susan Anderson has accepted the position of Editor of the Oncology Nursing Society Advanced Nursing Research (ANR) Special Interest Group (SIG) Virtual Community. She also received the SOM CV Institute seed grant for $11,048.

Elizabeth (Betsy) Thomas has been chosen as one of the national March of Dimes scholars for 2005-06.

Carol Boswell and Sharon Cannon have been chosen as item writers for the educational certification program being instituted by NLN. They are very excited at having been chosen for this first time endeavor to prepare a certification examination to address the role expectations for nursing faculty.

Cynthia O’Neal has been elected to serve as Chair of the General Faculty, effective January 1, 2005.

Ana Valadez has received her Nursing Administration, Advanced recertification, effective January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2009.

Ann Laurence, M.S., coordinated an award-winning caregiver project in conjunction with six Area Agencies on Aging in the West Texas Region. The project “West Texas Cares” was one of only 20 projects in the nation chosen by the U.S. Administration on Aging as a “Caregiver Champion Program” and was featured on the AOA website during the month of November, 2004. [Back to Top]



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