School of Nursing Research and Scholarship Day Winners Announced At UMMC

Press Release from UMMC:

UMMC School of Nursing Research and Scholarship Day award winners include faculty as well as graduate students.

Held April 3 in the Norman C. Nelson Student Union, the third annual event included 57 abstracts and 54 posters, which highlighted research and scholarship projects by 23 DNP students, five PhD students, 12 undergraduate student groups and 14 faculty members.

Faculty award winners include, Dr. Melissa Klamm, assistant professor, who won first place for her research, “Increasing Autonomous Motivation for Physical Activity among Adolescents.” Dr. Angela Duck, associate professor and director of the PhD in Nursing program, placed second for “Harvest for Health in Survivors of Chronic Disease: A Demonstration Project in the Alabama Black Belt and Mississippi Delta Region.” Third place went to Dr. Laree Hiser, associate professor, for “Potential Novel Biological Risk Factor for Cervical Cancer.”

DNP student award winners include Reagan McMurtery for “Independent Double-Checking of High-Risk Medications among Hospitalized Pediatric Patients: a Best Practice Implementation Project.” Second place went to Brandy Wilson for “Promoting Evidence-Based Practices Regarding Extravasation and Infiltration (Pediatric Populations): An Evidence Implementation Project.” Kathryn Sinn was awarded third place for “Sedation Assessment of Adult Intubated Patients in an Emergency Department: A Best Practice Implementation Project.”

Among PhD in Nursing student award recipients, Jennifer Brumfield won first place for “Trends in Sexual Risk Behavioral Responses among High School Students between Mississippi and the United States: 2001 to 2019.” Gordon Gartrell placed second for “Critical Incident Stress Debriefing in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: Caring for the Caregivers,” and Dr. Deloris Slade, SON DNP graduate, won third for “Mobile Heath Application, Self-Care, and Diabetic Kidney Disease: A Feasibility and Effectiveness Trial.”

Faculty selected to give podium presentations were Dr. James Miller, part-time assistant professor, who spoke on “Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention at an Academic Medical Center to Reduce Stigma of Accelerated Pre-licensure Nursing Students Toward Patients Living with HIV,”  instructor Allison Princiotta, “CRAM Deck: Finding a New Way to CRAM Pharmacology,” and Dr. Carolann Risley, associate professor, “A Preliminary study in Alterations in the Cervical Microbiome, Bacterial Vaginosis, and HPV infection in Specimens from STRIDES (Studying Risk and Improving Disparities in Mississippi).”

Students selected to give podium presentations were Jaclyn Smith, DNP student, “Nurses’ Use of the Five Rights of Medication in a Comprehensive Care Unit: A Best Practice Implementation Project,” and PhD in Nursing student Lesley Thweatt, “Engagement in Advance Care Planning among Community-Dwelling Adults with Non-Oncological Chronic Diseases.”