Month: April 2018

UCONN School of Nursing/ CAMP has strong participation at ENRS

UCONN School of Nursing/ CAMP was well-represented at this year’s Eastern Nursing Research Society annual meeting in Newark, NJ. Among the highlights was the presentation of the ENRS dissertation award to Mallory Perry, a PhD student.   In addition Dr. Starkweather and the P20 team presented a symposium titled “Precision in Pain Self-Management across Populations”. The full list of SON faculty and students who presented or had a key role includes:

Workshops:

Establishing and Maintaining a Research Career: A Panel Discussion with Experts along the Path
Drs. Xiaomei Cong and Dr. Cheryl Beck

Symposium Sessions:

Precision in Pain Self-Management across Populations
Dr. Angela Starkweather : Precision in Pain Self-Management Across Populations
Dr. Xiaomei Cong:Self-Reported Pain, Pain Sensitivity and Gut Microbiome Pattern in Young Adults with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Dr. Ruth Lucas, A Theory Guided Self-Management Intervention for Women Experiencing Breast and Nipple Pain During Breastfeeding
Dr. Angela Starkweather: Improving Precision in Self-Management of Acute Low Back Pain

Advancing Nursing Science in Precision Health: NINR P20 and P30 Centers
Dr. Angela Starkweather

Poster presentations

Dr. Deborah McDonald: Predictors of gastrointestinal bleeding in older adults: Results from the 2016 FDA Adverse Events Reporting System

Dr. Wanli Xu: Stress and Gut Inflammatory Responses in Modulating Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Preterm Infants

Dr. Marianne Snyder: A Mixed Methods Study of Beliefs, Behaviors. and Experiences of APRNs with Lesbian and Gay Patients

Student poster presentations

Mallory Perry, PhD Student
Assessing the Management of Pediatric Postsurgical Pain with Genetics

Jie Chen, PhD Student
Critical Care Nurses’ Perspective of Pain and Their Self-Reported Practices of Pain Assessment Toward Nonverbal Patients

Zahra Amirkhanzadeh Barandouzi, PhD Student
Do College Students have Adequate Knowledge about Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)?

Courtney Lopiano, Undergraduate Honors Student
A Battle on Opiates: The NICU Nurse’s Perspective on Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome