Eleven students from the School of Nursing Community Leadership Practicum course received the award for their spring 2010 efforts to provide health education and services to about 300 backside workers at Churchill Downs.
The awards were created by Dean Hern for creative teaching and research. Each is a separate award worth $1000. These Hern Teaching and Hern Research awards will be granted each spring to eligible full-time, term, probationary, or tenured faculty.
A person struggling with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia may find it difficult to maintain the same level of socialization they once knew, but a local venue offers people with memory loss and their caregivers a comfortable, engaging place to laugh, learn and remain socially engaged.
April 22, 2011 - Kayla Stinson, a graduate student in the Family Nurse Practitioner Program and the School of Nursing is one of a few selected nationwide for the Paul Ambrose Scholars Program. Stinson was recently selected for this competitive program. She is one of 45 students that will attend a three-day leadership symposium in Washington, DC. June 23-26, 2011.
Understanding the symptoms, particularly symptom distress - or the degree to which a symptom bothers a person, is crucial to improved patient care. Intervention at the time of diagnosis is important because patients with stage IIIb or IV lung cancer may approach the end of life quickly.
The study, "Determinants of Quality of Life in Patients Near the End of Life: A Longitudinal Perspective” was conducted by Carla Hermann, PhD, RN, associate professor, University of Louisville School of Nursing, and Stephen Looney, PhD, Medical College of Georgia.
Carter-Harris has received the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Minority Nursing Faculty Scholarship for the 2010-2011 academic year. The $18,000 scholarship provides financial support to graduate nursing students from minority backgrounds who agree to teach in a school of nursing after graduation. The AACN will hold $1,500 to cover expenses to attend AACN's Faculty Development Conference in Austin, TX in February 2011.