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N U R S I N G R E S E A R C HR e s e a r c h F u n d i n g S o u r c e sR e s e a r c h C o l l a b o r a t o r sFederal SupportDepartment of DefenseHealth Resources and ServicesAdministrationNational Cancer InstituteNational Center for Complementaryand Alternative MedicineNational Eye InstituteNational Heart, Lung, and BloodInstituteNational Institute of Child Health andHuman DevelopmentNational Institute of Diabetes &Digestive & Kidney DiseasesNational Institute of Mental HealthNational Institute of NeurologicalDisorders and StrokeNational Institute of NursingResearchNational Institute on AgingNonFederal SupportAmerican Academy of Nursing/Hartford FoundationAmerican Association of Critical CareNursesAmerican Association of NurseAnesthetists FoundationEli Lilly and CompanyHighmark Caring FoundationOncology Nursing SocietyOrganonPennsylvania Higher EducationFoundationProctor and GamblePharmaceuticals Inc.Robert Wood Johnson FoundationSchering CorporationSigma Theta Tau, Eta ChapterSigma Theta Tau InternationalUniversity of Pittsburgh DiabetesInstituteUPMCUPMC Diabetes InstituteSubcontractsChildren’s Hospital of PittsburghLoyola UniversityUniversit y of PittsburghSponsored AwardsAdvisory Council on InstructionalExcellenceCentral Research Development FundUniversit y of PittsburghCollaboratorsAlzheimer Disease Research CenterCenter for Minority HealthDepartment of PathologyDepartment of PsychologyDepartments of Psychology inEducation and Africana StudiesGraduate School of Public andInternational AffairsGraduate School of Public HealthSchool of Dental MedicineSchool of EducationSchool of MedicineSchool of Social WorkWomen’s Studies ProgramOutside CollaboratorsBrown Medical School andMiriam HospitalCarnegie Mellon UniversityChildren’s Hospital and Health Centerof San DiegoChildren’s Hospital of PittsburghDuquesne UniversityEdward Hines Jr. VA HospitalFacing Our Risk of CancerEmpowered National Organizationand Web siteFox Chase Cancer CenterJohns Hopkins UniversityJoslin Diabetes CenterLoyola UniversityMagee-Womens Hospital of UPMCMEDTAP InternationalMichiana Hematology OncologyNational Naval Medical CenterOncology Nursing SocietyOregon Health and SciencesUniversitySt. Jude Children’s Research HospitalSouth Hills Health System HomeHealth CareUniversity of AkronUniversity of California atSan FranciscoUniversity of IowaUniversity of MichiganUniversity of MissouriUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PittsburghCancer InstituteUniversity of WisconsinUPMCVisiting Nurses Association ofAllegheny CountyWashington UniversityWayne State UniversityWomancare Midwifery ServiceYale UniversityDenise Charron-Prochownik continued from page 25Charron-Prochownik is currently funded by the NationalInstitutes of Health to modify the CD-ROM for teens withtype 2 diabetes. The final product from her study is a book,which includes an interactive tutorial on two CD-ROMs,called Reproductive Health Awareness for Teenage Women withDiabetes —What Teens Want to Know about Sexuality, Pregnancy,and Diabetes. It is available for teens, parents, and healthcareproviders through the American Diabetes Association.Initial results confirm that this inexpensive, well-validated,self-instructional early intervention raises awareness of preconceptioncounseling and helps empower women with diabetesto make well-informed health choices for themselves and theirfuture children. A preliminary report of 13- to 16-year-oldadolescent women who viewed the CD and later read thebook in a separate session (sequential boosters of the program)showed that an astonishing 100 percent believed the CD helpedthem learn more about reproductive health.“Whether or not she is planning a pregnancy, every youngwoman with diabetes needs to know the facts and needs to getawareness counseling,” Charron-Prochownik says. She wants toraise awareness of preconception counseling so future motherscan have healthy pregnancies and healthy babies. “If we can savejust one baby, it will all be worthwhile.”28 u n i v e r s i t y o f p i t t s b u r g h
* NurseBeatHurric ane K atrin aWhen Hurricane Katrina slammed the U.S. Gulf Coast in August 2005, twoUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Nursing instructors in the Department ofAcute and Tertiary Care answered the call to assist in recovery efforts.Katrina was one of the most costly and destructive storms in U.S.history. At one time a Category 5 hurricane, Katrina ultimately made landfallin Louisiana and Mississippi at Category 4 strength. The storm causedapproximately 1,200 deaths. Recovery efforts will probably cost more than$80 billion—the highest cost of any hurricane in history.Michael Beach, MSN, RN, has worked in search-and-rescue disaster managementfor the past 16 years. Beach, responsible for the new trauma andemergency preparedness clinical emphasis within the School’s Acute CareNurse Practitioner Program, not only teaches disaster management concepts,but he also puts them to good use. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he traveledwith search-and-rescue group U.S. Search and Rescue/Recovery, alsoknown as U.S. SARR, to set up an advance distribution site for the Red Crossin Waveland, Miss. Beach’s unit focused on the cleanup process as well as distributingfood, ice, and water to small communities with large elderly and disabledpopulations. “The conditions were severe—hot, humid, the smell ripefrom standing water,” he says. Beach was inspired by the outpouring of residentswho worked day and night to help their fellow neighbors. He remembersone woman in particular who immediately approached his unit upon arrival.She insisted on helping and swept debris all day long. When he asked whereshe lived, she pointed to a mattress on the sidewalk and said, “My dog and Ilive there.” For Beach, the most difficult part was leaving. “It was an honor toserve,” he says.Laura Kling, MSN, RN, also put her nursing skills to good use this October.Kling, a member of the Westmoreland County Red Cross, went north, notsouth, to help Katrina victims. Kling traveled to the Red Cross national callcenter in Niagara Falls, N.Y., serving as a staff health supervisor responsiblefor overseeing the health and safety of Red Cross personnel. In addition, sheworked as a disaster health services call dispatcher, managing more than200 calls from hurricane victims and families displaced from their homes,communities, and healthcare. In her role as a dispatcher, Kling heard heartbreakingstories from evacuees who were at the Superdome, diabetics whohad not had insulin in more than a month, AIDS patients turned away at theemergency room, and families who had lost everything. “It took all of mynursing skills—active listening, asking questions, assessment, and knowledge,”she says. “It was physically and emotionally demanding—and ultimatelyvery rewarding.”Nightingale Award forResearch ExcellenceJudith A. Erlen, PhD, RN, FAAN, was honoredby the Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvaniafor excellence in nursing research. Erlen is atenured professor in the Department of HealthPromotion and Development, doctoral programcoordinator, associate director of the Centerfor Research in Chronic Disorders, and directorof the “Technology: Research in Chronic andCritical Illness” (T32 NR008857) training grant.Erlen’s research focuses on her interestsin patients with chronic disorders, medicationadherence, quality of life, and ethics. Combiningthese multiple interests has led to her studies ofmedication adherence in patients infected with HIV and her work onmedication-taking practices among community-dwelling patients withAlzheimer’s disease.Nursing research is the foundation of current nursing practice and thebasis for future nursing practice. Nominees for this award are committed toexcellence in nursing practice through research. Nurse researchers receivegrants and publish findings that enhance nursing practice education andpatient care in the academic and clinical practice settings.Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvania presents annual awards to exceptionalnurses practicing in the commonwealth. The awards program givesstate and national recognition to recipients in clinical practice LPN, clinicalpractice RN, clinical advanced practice RN, nursing administration, nursingresearch, and nursing education, along with a patient choice award.The awards are based on the demonstration of excellence in severalareas, including how each nurse significantly influences the quality ofpatient care, creates a collaborative environment for the practice of nursing,models caring and compassion, and contributes to healing and health inthe community.In addition, two University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing studentsreceived Nightingale Award scholarships. Kelly Winkelvoss, RN, a master’sstudent in the Psychiatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program, receiveda Nightingale Advanced Degree Scholarship. Joanna McKee, a BSN student,received a Nightingale Bachelor’s Degree Scholarship. These exceptionalstudents distinguished themselves by demonstrating deep levels of caring,compassion, community service, and academic achievement.Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvania grants scholarships annually toPennsylvania residents who are studying nursing at the basic or advancedlevel and intend to practice in the commonwealth. Recipients are chosen by acommittee of nurses and consumers from all parts of the commonwealth. Theawards are based on merit, involvement in community service, and leadershippotential.p i t t N u r s e w i n t e r 2 0 0 6 29
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