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At the School of Nursing, education,
re s e a rch, and clinical practice
a re fully integrated to advance nursing
and health-care knowledge. With public
and private funding, Penn Nursing
faculty and students are involved in
leading-edge studies focusing on clinical
services, health services, community
and urban health-care delivery,
patient outcomes, health policy, nursing
education, history, and health care .
The accompanying list of re s e a rc h
p rojects illustrates the range of scholarly
inquiries conducted by Penn
Nursing standing faculty, individually
and in collaboration with nurses and
m u l t i d i s c i p l i n a ry investigators here at
Penn and at other institutions
t h roughout the country. While listings
a re limited to funded projects involving
standing faculty members as principal
or coinvestigators, an equally
i m p ressive list exists of re s e a rch projects
currently being conducted by
other members of the Penn Nursing
faculty and graduate and underg r a d u-
ate students. ■
Foundational Sciences and
Health Systems
Advanced training in nursing outcomes
research
National Institute of Nursing Research
(1999-2004)
Principal investigator: Linda Aiken;
coinvestigators: Loretta Sweet Jemmott,
Julie Sochalski
Alzheimer's disease patients and their care -
givers: a pilot study
Frank Morgan Jones Fund (1997-1999)
Principal investigator: Mary Naylor
An analysis of injuries and their outcomes in
the elderly population in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania
Frank Morgan Jones Fund (1999)
Principal investigator: Therese Richmond
Nursing Research Central to
Penn’s New AIDS Center
urses are an extremely important integrating force in AIDS re s e a rc h
“N and care,” Linda Aiken, PhD, FAAN, FRCN, RN, said. “They have a
b road span of interest and expertise in the study of AIDS prevention and care.”
It follows that the School of Nursing is leading the Behavioral and Social
S e rvices Program of Penn’s new Center for AIDS Research, which the National
Institutes of Health recently funded with a $1.5 million grant. The primary
focus of the Center is to advance understanding of AIDS prevention.
P e n n ’s five-year NIH grant will finance re s e a rch across multiple scientific
disciplines at the University to “build infrastru c t u re that enables us to extend
Penn Nursing’s leading AIDS researchers,
Linda Aiken and Loretta Sweet Jemmott
the science that we alre a d y
have under way on AIDS care
and prevention,” said Aiken,
d i rector of the program in the
behavioral and social scie
n c e s .
“ We are organizing the
immense scientific capacity
of this University in the
behavioral and social sciences
and targeting it toward
existing and new grant initiatives
to improve the science
of AIDS prevention and
c a re,” Aiken said.
The Center for AIDS Research is the only one in the country to include nursing
as a central component. Research includes the design and evaluation of
behavioral HIV/AIDS risk-reduction programs, studies of the effectiveness of
the organization of services for people with AIDS, and the evaluation of clinical
intervention to enhance symptom control and delay disease pro g re s s i o n
t h rough better drug use compliance. ■
Barriers to advanced practice nursing
Pew Charitable Trusts (1995-1998)
Principal investigator: Linda Aiken;
coinvestigator: Julie Sochalski
Center for AIDS Research
National Institutes of Health (1999-2004)
Principal investigator: James Hoxie;
coinvestigator: Linda Aiken
Central mechanisms of defective
glucoregulation after hypoglycemia
University of Pennsylvania Research
Foundation (1998-1999)
Principal investigator: Nancy Tkacs
Daytime sleepiness and function on continuous
positive airway pressure therapy for apnea.
Special Center of Research for
Cardiopulmonary Disorder of Sleep —
Project 06 (Allan I. Pack, PI)
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
(1996-2000)
Principal investigator: David F. Dinges;
coinvestigator: Terri Weaver
Defective glucoregulation after hypoglycemia
Bonan Family Ltd Partnership
Principal investigator: Nancy Tkacs
Development of an academic corporate
research partnership
Genesis Health Ventures (1998-1999)
Principal investigator: Neville Strumpf;
coinvestigators: Lois Evans, Mary Naylor
Epidemiology of early central nervous system
injury and psychopathology at 13
National Institute of Mental Health
(1999-2004)
Principal investigator: Agnes Whitaker;
coinvestigator: Jennifer Pinto-Martin
Establishing a research agenda for the
LIFE Program
The Presbyterian Foundation for
Philadelphia (1998 and 1999)
Principal investigator: Mary Naylor;
coinvestigator: Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
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