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Giving Tuesday News & Emergency Fund Helps Students Survive and Thrive
From November 9 through December 1, 2020, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø will once again participate in Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday serves as a day to reflect on philanthropy in a time of the year often focused on consumerism. As in years past, the College of Nursing will be featured as we work …
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Pandemic Prompts Creation of College’s Online Nursing Skills Video Library
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced 51³Ô¹ÏÍø to go completely remote midway through the spring 2020 semester, College of Nursing lecturer Sarah Bixler, MSN, RN, knew she would need to get creative with her teaching methods. “I have two school-aged children at home whose world was also tur…
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Prestigious Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation President’s Grant to Expand End-of-Life Simulation for Nursing and Medical Students
Faculty researchers from 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s College of Nursing were recently funded by the prestigious Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation with a yearlong President’s Grant award totaling $35,000. The goal of their study is to help ensure the competencies of new healthcare providers to fa…
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Dr. Dowell Explores Improving Asthma Symptom Management for Underserved Children through Community Engagement
Dr. Jo Dowell, Ph.D., APRN, CNP, PNP, FNP-BC, CFNE, serves as Assistant Professor for the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø College of Nursing and examines pediatric asthma and improving health outcomes for children who suffer from this disease. In a recent national report, Asthma Capitals 2019: The Most Challe…
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Kent Nursing Researcher Receives $50,000 Grant to Explore Use of Cognitive Behavioral App Among Family Caregivers
51³Ô¹ÏÍø College of Nursing Assistant Professor, Amy Petrinec, Ph.D., RN, recently received a $50,000 two-year grant through the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) to research family caregivers who experience a phenomenon called post intensive care syndrome family (PICS-F) that ma…
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Building Resiliency During Serious Illness Crisis
Dana Hansen, Ph.D., APRN, ACHPN, Amy Petrinec, Ph.D., RN, and Tracey Motter, DNP, RN, researchers from 51³Ô¹ÏÍø College of Nursing, along with Maureen Keeley, Ph.D., Texas State, have developed a website to offer information, support via blog participation and research opportunities for famil…
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Peg’s Foundation Gifts Kent Nursing $165,000 Grant to Advance Mental Health Care in NE Ohio
51³Ô¹ÏÍø College of Nursing recently received a grant totaling $165,000 from Peg’s Foundation, formerly the Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation, a private grant-making foundation which supports mental health programs in northeast Ohio. Wendy Umberger, Ph.D., RN, PMHCNS-BC, associate dean f…
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