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FACULTY FOCUSof the Nurse Practitioner Programs,and Suzanne C. Smeltzer, Ed.D., R.N.,FAAN, professor and director of theCenter for Nursing Research, “Statusof Disability Content in GraduateNursing Education.” Dr. Blunt also wasa panelist for “Bringing StandardizedPatients into Academia: An InnovativeApproach to Standardized PatientRecruitment”;yyMarcia Costello, Ph.D., R.D., LDN,assistant professor, and Denice Ferko-Adams, M.P.H., R.D., LDN, director ofthe MacDonald Center for ObesityPrevention and Education, “TheBiggest Winner: Obesity PreventionEducation for Nurses”;yyRuth Crothers ’10 Ph.D., R.N., GCNS-BC, CNOR, “The History of OrganizedContinuing Nursing Education 1957-1974: Backdrop to Future Directions”;yyKaren Goldschmidt, M.S.N., R.N., Ph.D.student, “With a Little Help from myFriends…the Educator’s Role in EffectiveStudent Study Groups”;yyTamara M. Kear ’09 Ph.D., R.N., CNN,assistant professor, “Exploring theBenefits of Collaboration between theClinical Educator and Coordinator ofClinical Faculty”;yyMaryanne Lieb ’85 M.S.N., R.N., clinicalassistant professor and coordinatorof Second Degree Options, “GoodThings Can Happen to Mediocre Cooks”;yyCatherine Todd Magel, Ed.D., R.N.BC, assistant professor, “CollaborativeLearning Promotes Collegiality”;yyKaren May, M.S.N., R.N., Ph.D. student,“Exploring the Relationship ofGenomics and Environmental Healthwith Senior Baccalaureate NursingStudents”;yyNancy Sharts-Hopko, Ph.D., R.N.,FAAN, professor and director of thePh.D. Program in Nursing, “BringingNursing Research to Life with UndergraduateStudents”;yyAnne Vitale ’08 Ph.D., R.N., APRN,BC, “The Use of a Distance LearningMentoring Program to Assist NoviceNurse Educators”; andyyCarol Toussie Weingarten, Ph.D.,R.N., ANEF, associate professor,“Working Smarter: Re-EnvisioningFaculty Roles to Meet Challenges inNursing Education.”Posters:yyMary Ann Cantrell ’89 M.S.N., Ph.D.,R.N., assistant professor; Bette Mariani’82 B.S.N., Ph.D., R.N., assistantprofessor; and Colleen Meakim’84 M.S.N., R.N., director of the LearningResource Center, “The Role of StructuredDebriefing on Students’ ClinicalJudgment Abilities in Simulation”;yyRuth Crothers ’10 Ph.D., R.N., GCNS-BC, CNOR, “The Development ofOrganized Continuing Educationfor Registered Nurses in the UnitedStates 1957-1974: Challenge for aMaturing Profession”;yyTamara M. Kear ’09 Ph.D., R.N., CNN,assistant professor, “Cross-DisciplinaryLearning Experiences: Implicationsfor Nursing Education”;yyCatherine Todd Magel, Ed.D., R.N.BC, assistant professor, “CurriculumDevelopment for a New Generation ofNursing Educators”;yyElizabeth Romeo ’10 Ph.D., CRNP,FNP-BC, “The Predictive Ability ofCritical Thinking, Nursing GPA andSAT Scores on First Time NCLEX-R.N.Performance”;yyJennifer Gunberg Ross ’00 B.S.N.,’05 M.S.N., ’11 Ph.D., R.N., CNE,adjunct clinical faculty member, “TheEffect of Simulation Training on BaccalaureateNursing Students’ Competencyin Performing IntramuscularInjection”;yyLorraine Rusch ’10 Ph.D., R.N., twoposters, “Exploring BaccalaureateNursing Students’ Experiences withClinical Preparation, Clinical Reasoning,and Decision Making” and“Preceptor Perceptions of StudentReadiness for Preceptorship: A CurriculumEvaluation Modality”; andyyCarol Toussie Weingarten, Ph.D., R.N.,ANEF, associate professor, “Low Cost,High Impact Simulation for Leadershipand Professional Developmentin Undergraduate Nursing Education:Achieving Essential Outcomes Throughthe Student Nurses’ Association.”ENRS 24TH ANNUALSCIENTIFIC SESSIONSThis spring, faculty and doctoralprogram alumni presented their scholarlywork at the 24th Annual EasternNursing Research Society (ENRS) 24thAnnual Scientific Sessions, held in NewHaven, Conn., March 28-30.Presentations:yyMary Ann Cantrell ’89 M.S.N., Ph.D.,R.N., associate professor, “AlcoholConsumption and Smoking Ratesbetween Survivors of Childhood Cancerand Matched Cohorts Surveyed inthe Adolescent Health Study”;yyNancy Sharts-Hopko, Ph.D., R.N.,FAAN, professor and director of thePh.D. Program in Nursing, “The Associationof Self-Reported Vision Statuswith Obesity, Diabetes, CardiovascularDisease, and Health Risk BehaviorsAmong Adult Women Respondentsto the 2008 National Health InterviewSurvey”;yySuzanne C. Smeltzer, Ed.D., R.N.,FAAN, professor and director of theCenter for Nursing Research, “Integrationof Disability-Related Content inNurse Practitioner Programs.” Coauthorsof the paper are ElizabethBlunt, Ph.D., R.N., ANP, BC, assistantprofessor and coordinator of NursePractitioner Programs; Lisa Wetzel-Effinger ’08 M.S.N., R.N.; and HeatherMarozsan ’10 M.S.N., R.N., CNP;yyJanet Fogg ’11 Ph.D., RNC-NIC, CNE,“Stress, Coping, and Social Supportfor Single, Unpartnered Mothers ofInfants in the NICU”;yySuzanne Foley ’11 Ph.D., R.N., WHNP-BC, “A Fresh Look at the PostpartumPeriod: New Mothers’ Needs Duringthe First Months at Home”; andyyStephanie Jeffers ’11 Ph.D., R.N.,“Nurse Faculty Perspectives of End-of-Life Education in the Clinical Setting:A Phenomenological Perspective.”Poster:y y Bing Bing Qi ’94 M.S.N., Ph.D., R.N.,assistant professor, “A Validation ofthe Self-Reported Exercise Measurein a Self-Efficacy Enhanced OsteoporosisPrevention Program amongChinese Immigrants.” •24 Villanova Nursing | Spring 2012