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Nursing Student News Students Awarded Carpenter Community Nursing Fellowships
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Heck Receives Research Grant Instructor Carey Heck, MS, MSN, ACNP-BC, CCRN, CNRN, has been awarded a critical care research grant from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses to support her doctoral dissertation, “A Study of Moral Distress in Novice and Experienced Nurses.”
Shaffer and Feil Selected for Leadership Program Kathryn Shaffer, BSN ’97, MSN, EdD, instructor and director of clinical education and faculty development, and Marian Feil, CRNA, nurse anesthetist, were selected to participate in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Leadership for Academic Nursing Program. This fellowship is designed to develop and enhance leadership skills in up-and-coming executive administrators in baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs.
Nursing Researchers Focus on QR Codes Jefferson College of Nursing researchers recently published an article in the Journal of Nursing Education describing a doctoral-level practicum experience for nursing students that focused on the creation of patient resource guides using QR codes. Jennifer Bellot, PhD, RN, MHSA, CNE, associate professor and
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director of Jefferson’s Doctorate of Nursing Practice program, and her co-authors found that QR codes provide a unique opportunity for patient education by linking directly to trusted content rather than requiring the patient to type in URLs or search online. QR codes have the ability to link directly to a webpage, updated pharmaceutical specifications or videos and to call a phone number directly. For those patients with limited tactile or visual abilities, scanning a QR code may be easier than typing in small text.
Pogorzelska-Maziarz Leads C. Diff Study Faculty member Monika PogorzelskaMaziarz, PhD, MPH, recently designed a study that found that hospitals using single-use sharps disposal containers had significantly lower rates of clostridium difficile (often called C. diff), as compared to those using reusable containers. C. diff, a bacterium commonly acquired in hospitals or long-term-care facilities, can cause symptoms ranging from diarrhea to life-threatening inflammation of the colon. Infection rates are at an all-time high, and Pogorzelska-Maziarz’s results showed a nearly 15 percent reduction when single-use sharps containers were used. The study was published in Infection Control Today.
Jefferson nursing students Tanya Bronzell-Wynder, Theresa Moran and Sung Whang were awarded 2015 Carpenter Community Nursing Fellowships, which provide an introductory and competitive fellowship program in community-based and public health nursing for current and recently graduated nursing students of all levels. The program introduces Fellows to newly emerging career opportunities, develops leadership skills and provides mentors to support their future career paths.
Nurse Anesthesia Students Recognized by AANA Nicole Irick, a nurse anesthesia student, was selected by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) Foundation Board as a 2015-2016 AANA Foundation Student Advocate. Irick will serve as a liaison between the AANA Foundation and fellow students and will have the opportunity to attend state and national meetings as well as participate in AANA Foundation conference calls and events. She is one of 10 students selected for this prestigious position. Amanda Paul, also a nurse anesthesia student, was selected to participate in the AANA PR Committee’s Student Mentoring Program, which aims to provide a positive, welcoming, motivational and educational experience to student leaders through mentoring by experienced Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists.