UNE faculty present research at regional, national nursing conferences

Dana Law-Ham and Debra Kramlich present their research
Dana Law-Ham and Debra Kramlich present their research

Faculty from the Āé¶¹Ö±²„ presented their research and the success of their programs at two recent nursing education conferences.

Debra Kramlich, Ph.D., RN, CCRN, CNE; Judith Belanger, RN, M.S.N./Ed., CNE; Dana Law-Ham, Ph.D., RN, FNP-BC, CNE; and Nora Krevans, M.A. of the Student Academic Success Center presented their pilot research, ā€œIdentification of Academically At-risk Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing Students to Support Development of Strategies to Promote Academic Success,ā€ at the 25th Annual Conference for Nurse Educators: Clinicians and Educators: Collaborating to Meet Practice Challenges.

At that same conference, Kristen Holt, M.S.N., RN, and Debra Kramlich, Ph.D., RN, CNE, CCRN-K, presented a classroom integration of SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment. Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment) methodology in a presentation titled, ā€œUndergraduate Nursing Student Education on the Continuum of Care for Addiction and Recovery.ā€

At the 2017 Association of Community Health Nurse Educator’s Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, Jennifer Morton, D.N.P., M.P.H., APHN-BC, presented program outcomes titled, ā€œAdvancing the Capacity of Maine’s Public Health Nursing Workforce through a Targeted Leadership Development Program.ā€ Interim Dean of the Westbrook College of Health Professions Karen T. Pardue, Ph.D., M.S., RN, CNE, ANEF, and Professor Judy Metcalf, APRN, BC, M.S., FMGS, were co-authors on the paper.

While at that conference Morton also joined peers from four other universities to present early collaborative findings of their respective Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) Nurse, Education, Practice, Quality and Retention Grants. Their presentation was titled, ā€œAdvancing the Role of Primary Care Registered Nurses in Population Health Managementā€ Co-presenters included Mary Goldschmidt, D.N.P., RN, APHN-BC, Virginia Commonwealth University; Flo Weierbach, Ph.D., M.P.H., RN, Tennessee State University; Kae Livsey, Ph.D., M.P.H., RN, West Carolina University; and Rebecca Sutter, D.N.P., APRN, BC-FNP, George Mason University.

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