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July 2005

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.

Myrna Armstrong has been appointed to the ANA Nursing Information Data Set Evaluation Center Committee (NIDSEC), 2005-2007.

Myrna Armstrong did a presentation at the 23rd 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 3rd 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.

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”.

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

Sharon Decker has done the following presentations:

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

Post presentation:  Simulation and Education:  An Ethical Dilemma, 6th 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, 6th 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, 6th National Conference on Nursing Skills Laboratories, San Antonio, TX June 23, 2005.

Barbara Johnston has the following  article published:  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.

Donna Scott-Tilley, Ana Valadez and Alexia Green have the following publication:  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.

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


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