School of Nursing answered an invitation from the National League for Nursing to test new simulation education scenarios focused on patients with physical disabilities. Assistant professor Reimund Serafica and six nursing students tested three scenarios, provided suggestions for enhancing the content, and evaluated the scoring rubric. The new…

Reimund Serafica and Alona Angosta (Nursing) co-authored an article in the Journal of the American Society of Hypertension titled "Acculturation and Changes in Body Mass Index, Waist-Hip Ratio among Filipino Americans with Hypertension," which examined whether level of acculturation is an absolute predictor of body mass indexes,…

Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Abbie Kirkendall (Social Work), and Catherine Dingley (Nursing) recently received the Tier 2 funding from the Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI) to continue their project “Engaging Patients with Life-Limiting Illnesses on Receiving Palliative Care“. They completed the project’s Tier…

Jillian Inouye and Nada Lukkahatai (Nursing) were part of a research team that received an Outstanding Oral Presentation Award for the project "Wearable Technology and Bio-psycho-social Measures of Symptom Burden" during the Optimizing Health Care Quality: Teamwork in Education, Research, and Practice Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand. More than…

Susan VanBeuge (Nursing) was re-elected as the Nevada representative for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). During her two-year term, concluding during 2018, VanBeuge will fulfill numerous duties centered on representing the AANP, its members, and the community at large.

Marianne Tejada (Nursing) has been selected to the Summer Genetics Institute, a tuition-free, one-month intensive research training program at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. The program, sponsored by the National Institute of Nursing Research, seeks to increase the research capability among graduate students and faculty,…

Cheryl Perna (Nursing) co-authored “Patient Care Outcomes and Temporary Nurses,” which appeared in Nursing Management, and “The Development of a PTSD Standardized Patient Encounter,” which appeared in MedEdPORTAL Publications. The articles published during August and November 2015 respectively. She also led two poster presentations during…

The UNLV School of Nursing has been selected as publisher of the Asian Pacific Island Nursing Journal, a peer-reviewed international forum for the exchange of knowledge in relation to Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander health and nursing care. Nursing faculty members will retain their editorial roles with the publication: …

Jessica Doolen (Nursing) co-authored “Nursing Simulation Research: What are the Perceived Gaps,” which determined a need for more rigorous multisite studies centered on student and/or patient outcomes. The article appeared in the January issue of Clinical Simulation in Nursing.  

Tish Smyer, Tricia Gatlin, Rhigel Tan, Marianne Tejada, and Du Feng (all Nursing) co-authored “Academic Outcome Measures of a Dedicated Education Unit Over Time: Help or Hinder,” which appeared in November/December 2015 issue of Nurse Educator. The article examined a study focused on whether students placed on a dedicated education unit achieved…

Jessica Doolen (Nursing) earned the 2015 Nurse of the Year award in the education category from the Nevada chapter of the March of Dimes. Doolen teaches in the school’s undergraduate and the graduate programs, and is the educational director at the Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas on the Shadow Lane campus. She has been a full-time faculty…

Professors Jay Shen (Community Health Sciences) and Abbie Kirkendall (Social Work) are conducting a project with nearly $15,000 funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to form a Palliative Care Research Network in Nevada through a variety of community engagement activities. The project will help…