Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing) recently published an article, "Episodic Memory in Later Life: Benefits of Prayer and Meditation" in the Journal of Holistic Nursing. The article examines the effects of prayer and meditation on the episodic memory or older adults.     

Jennifer Vanderlaan (Nursing) recently was appointed to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee for Nevada. This committee, which was established during the 80th legislative session, examines the state's mortality and morbidity rates among pregnant women and presents recommendations to the Legislature on how to respond.       

Angela Amar (Nursing) recently published an article, "An Introductory Nursing Class to Engage Undergraduate Generation Z Prenursing Students" in the journal Nurse Educator. The article describes an introductory nursing course as part of a multifaceted strategy to engage pre-nursing college students prior to entrance into an upper division…

Rachell Ekroos (Nursing) is a co-author of "Evidence Management of Self‐Collected Items – A Targeted Gap Analysis" published in Evidence Technology Magazine. In this forensic nursing feature article, the authors explore several considerations related to the self-collection of evidence following a sexual assault including the victim post-…

Andrew Thomas Reyes, Rhigel Alforque Tan, Alvin Ryan Acupan (all Nursing), and Chad L. Cross (Medicine) co-authored, “Resilience and Psychological Trauma among Filipino American Women” which is published in the December issue of the Archives of Psychiatric Nursing. Acupan is a graduate student.

Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing) was one of 30 participants selected to participate in a workshop, Forming Science-Industry Research Collaborations, organized by the Stanford Center on Longevity and Duke Center for Interdisciplinary Decision Science at the Gerontological Society of America Conference in Austin, Texas. The workshop provided…

Angela Amar (Nursing) recently was appointed by the National League for Nursing to serve a two-year term as a member of its Finance Committee. The league is the premier organization for nurse faculty and leaders in nursing education with more than 40,000 individual and 1,200 institutional members. 

Jay Shen (Health Care Administration), Catherine Dingley (Nursing), Ji Yoo (Medicine) and Sfurti Maheshwari and Kalyn Frost (both Public Health), and Soo Kim (Journalism and Media Studies), along with community partners Duy Nguyen, Octavio Posada, and Weiss Solano from the Asian Community Development Council, recently presented at the 6th Public…

Rei Serafica (Nursing) presented his research topic  "Acculturative Stress Among Older Immigrants in the United States" at the  44th Annual American Association for Men in Nursing in Orlando, Florida, earlier this month. He also serves as the vice-president of Men in Nursing of Southern Nevada. 

Rachell Ekroos (Nursing) along with Patricia M. Speck (University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Nursing) presented "Title X Legislative & Regulatory Analysis Benefiting Children Affected by Sexual Exploitation" at the American Academy of Nursing's 2019 Transforming Health, Driving Policy Conference earlier this month in Washington, D.C.…

Rei Serafica (Nursing) has co-presented a panel presentation, "From Lightbulb to Paper: Getting Published in the Journal of Transcultural Nursing (JTCN)," at the recently concluded 45th annual Transcultural Nursing Society Conference held in Richmond, Virginia, earlier this month. He serves as an associate editor of JTCN. 

June Cho (Nursing) received a pilot grant of $65,891 through the Mountain West CTR-IN (Clinical & Translational Research Infrastructure Network Program), funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Findings of her research project, titled “Health Disparities in Very-Low-Birthweight (VLBW) Preterm Birth in Nevada,” will…