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…

Reimund Serafica (School of Nursing) is first author of “Hapag Kainan: Dietary Consumption of Fat, Sugar, Fruits and Vegetables Among Filipino Americans,” a study that explored the relationships among dietary consumption variables and the anthropometric measurements of Filipino Americans. The article appeared in the Journal of Cultural…

Alona Angosta, Jillian Inouye, Tricia Gatlin, and Reimund Serafica (all Nursing) have had their abstract accepted for an international symposium. They will present "Effects of Dance in Chronic Illness: A Systematic Review" at the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing 43rd Biennial Convention, which will take place in Las Vegas…

Reimund Serafica, Alona Angosta (both Nursing), and Sheniz Moonie (Environmental and Occupational Health) are the authors of an article, "Measuring Enjoyment of Ballroom Dancing in Filipino Americans Using the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale," which recently was published in the peer-reviewed publication Asian Pacific Island Nursing Journal.

Alona Angosta (Nursing) received the John Crawford Nursing Research Institute Fellow Award from the Neuman Systems Model Research Institute in summer 2015. The purpose of the award is to recognize outstanding nurses who made significant contributions to nursing research using the Neuman Systems Model (NSM) as a research framework to guide their…

School of Nursing earned a 10-year accreditation for its bachelor's and master's programs from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). The school voluntarily seeks accreditation and participates in the self-assessment and evaluation processes. It has maintained accreditation since the 1970s, specifically from CCNE since 2008.

Jessica Doolen, Michelle Giddings, and Michael Johnson (all Nursing), along with Gigi Guizado de Nathan and Lysander Abadia of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, authored "An Evaluation of Mental Health Simulation with Standardized Patients." The article, which appeared in the March issue of the International Journal of Nursing Education…

Maulah Adanri and Paul Smith (Nursing) have been selected as Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholars by the School of Nursing. Each of these doctoral students will receive $20,000 for their nursing studies during the next two years, making them part of a national effort to combat the nursing faculty shortage and prepare future nurses as America's healthcare…

Alona Angosta, Jennifer Kawi, and Bruce Leonard (all Nursing) have been selected to the Summer Genetics Institute, which is a tuition-free, one-month intensive research training program at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. The program, sponsored by the National Institute of Nursing Research, seeks to increase the research…

Carolyn Yucha (Nursing and Allied Health) has been appointed to the Valley Health System Board of Governors. The new board is comprised of seasoned business professionals, key physician leaders, and experienced hospital executives. According to a Valley Health System press release, the appointees are responsible for providing governance in the…

Rhigel "Jay" Tan (Nursing) received Nevada Business magazine's "Educator Healthcare Hero" award during the eighth annual Healthcare Heroes ceremony in September. The publication created the award to recognize outstanding health care professionals in both Northern and Southern Nevada. A diverse panel of health care professionals chose 10 honorees…