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November 1, 2021November 12, 2021

Pioneering GW Nursing Faculty Teaches Nurses to Lead

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The George Washington University School of Nursing’s graduate programs develop nurses who provide excellent care. They also train nurses to lead.

In U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 rankings of the “Best Online Master’s in Nursing Administration Programs,” GW Nursing was designated among the best, ranking No. 2 in Best Online Master’s in Nursing for Veterans, and No. 3 in Best Online Master’s in Nursing Administration & Leadership Programs.

GW Nursing’s emphasis on leadership development and public policy knowledge makes its graduate programs stand out. The faculty prepares students to serve as leaders at every level of nursing; to develop sound health policy; and to use their voices to advocate for patients, families, and communities.

Learn about four GW Nursing faculty members leading the way as practitioners, advocates, researchers, and educators.

Take On New Challenges

“I love the field of nursing. I’m really passionate about it,” said GW Nursing Professor Joyce Pulcini, Ph.D., RN, PNP-BC, FAAN. “It has offered me so many avenues to grow and to become a leader.”

As a nurse practitioner, author, educator, and organizational leader, Dr. Pulcini has always welcomed opportunities to lead. “I think the key to leadership is taking on a challenge when it comes to you,” she said. “You never know when that’s going to be.”

She has led initiatives and programs to train nurses and nurse practitioners in the U.S. and globally. In 2021, she was honored by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) with the Lifetime Achievement Award, given to recipients “whose contributions have been visionary and stalwart in successfully developing and promoting the role of the nurse practitioner.”

“I love the field of nursing. I’m really passionate about it. It has offered me so many avenues to grow and to become a leader.”

– Dr. Pulcini

For Dr. Pulcini, who has served as NONPF president, the award is personally and professionally rewarding. “[The NONPF] is near and dear to my heart,” she said. “I’m very honored they would give me the Lifetime Achievement Award.”

Dr. Pulcini has been a leader in health care and nursing policy at the local, state, and national levels. She shares her knowledge, research, and experience through courses such as Health Policy, Quality, and Political Process, where students analyze the three main components of health policy: cost, quality, and access.

At GW Nursing, students gain the clinical training, leadership skills, and policy knowledge needed to lead, Dr. Pulcini said.

“In addition to the clinical content, we try to move students to the next level with the Nursing Leadership course and with policy courses,” said Dr. Pulcini. “GW prepares graduates to be leaders in the field.”

Create Positive Change

“Nurses have the ability to serve as change agents in creating systems that bridge health care and social care,” Ashley Darcy-Mahoney, Ph.D., NNP, FAAN said.

Dr. Darcy-Mahoney is the interim director of infant research at GW’s Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute, associate professor, and a neonatal nurse practitioner and researcher.

Last year, she served as the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence (2020-2021). “The goal of the program is to encourage nurse leaders to play a more prominent role in health policy, and to make nursing part of the public conversation when we think about health and policy,” Dr. Darcy-Mahoney said.

“Not only can we create wonderful, incredible, smart, dedicated clinicians as part of our School of Nursing, but we can also create powerful advocates for change at the local, state, and federal levels.”

– Dr. Darcy-Mahoney

As scholar-in-residence, she contributed to NAM’s Future of Nursing Report: 2020-2030, which focuses on topics such as reducing barriers to health care access, increasing equity, instituting pay reform, and diversifying the nursing workforce.

GW’s Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute conducts research to improve understanding of the root causes of autism spectrum disorder and to enhance diagnosis and treatment options. As the institute’s leader, Dr. Darcy-Mahoney ensures the team has the necessary environment and resources to conduct innovative research.

This semester, Dr. Darcy-Mahoney teaches the graduate-level Genetics course; and in the spring, she will lead a public health nursing course for graduate students, and a course on pediatric adversity for undergraduate students.

Dr. Darcy-Mahoney believes GW Nursing prepares graduates to bring about positive change. “Not only can we create wonderful, incredible, smart, dedicated clinicians as part of our School of Nursing, but we can also create powerful advocates for change at the local, state, and federal levels,” Dr. Darcy-Mahoney said.

Advance Health Care Quality

GW Nursing instructor Esther Emard, M.S.N., MSLIR, RN, CPHQ, has a passion for providing high-quality care that started early in her career.

“I was a critical care nurse specialist, involved in providing high-quality care and safe care to patients in extremely vulnerable conditions,” Ms. Emard said. “As I advanced through the levels of nursing leadership, which I was very fortunate to do, it became even clearer to me how important it was to make sure that as nurses we continue to advance our knowledge, skill, and competencies to deliver high-quality care that is safe.”

Ms. Emard was recently elected to the board of the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), which is the only organization dedicated to health care quality professionals. The NAHQ offers the only nationally recognized certification in health care quality, the Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality^®.

“Nurses are at the front line, providing health and health care across the life span. We need to be at the table in policy discussions.”

– Esther Emard

GW Nursing aims to prepare students to achieve this credential with a new graduate-level course developed with the NAHQ. Ms. Emard helped to design the Advancing Health Care Quality and Patient Safety course, which will be offered through the Nursing Leadership and Management master’s degree program next academic year.

Additionally, Ms. Emard serves as faculty for the Health Care Quality Process; Health Policy, Quality and Political Process; and Health Care Quality Improvement courses, as well as for the Patient Safety Systems course for GW’s School of Health Science, where she also has an adjunct appointment. 

“Nursing is one of the largest professions in health care, and nurses are at the front line, providing health and health care across the life span,” Ms. Emard said. “We need to be at the table in policy discussions. We bring the competency, the knowledge, skill, and the expertise to those discussions, along with our health care colleagues, on advancing health care quality and patient safety.” 

Advocate for Underserved Populations

“Being a nurse leader doesn’t always mean that you’re the manager or the CEO. There is leadership at all levels,” Joyce Knestrick, Ph.D., FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN said. “For me, it’s always an adventure to see what I can do to make improvements and to see what I can change to make things better.”

Dr. Knestrick is director of nurse leadership management, director of executive leadership, and an associate professor. This semester, she teaches the graduate course Health Care Enterprise.

As a family nurse practitioner, Dr. Knestrick practices in rural Appalachia, caring for low-income and underserved populations, and she advocates for legislation that removes barriers to access to high-quality, affordable health care.

“We have a faculty of outstanding leaders who understand what it takes to be a leader in today’s changing times..”

– Dr. Knestrick

For her career of dedicated service, Dr. Knestrick was awarded the American Association of Nurse Practitioners’ (AANP’s) 2021 Towers Pinnacle Award, which honors recipients who exemplify advocacy, passion, and dedication to the advancement of the nurse practitioner role through policy, practice, and education.

“Dr. Knestrick’s advocacy and scholarship research led to the development of community health centers in Appalachia that have become a national model for quality health services for underserved rural areas,” AANP’s website states.

For Dr. Knestrick, being a leader means being willing to step in to solve difficult problems. “I, always in my career, have been a person who is looking for a solution. I think that I’ve always tried to look for how we can fix or solve a puzzle or problem,” said Dr. Knestrick.

As the global community continues to face the ongoing pandemic, nurses play a critical role in creating solutions, providing safe and high-quality care, and advocating for the patients and communities they serve. At GW Nursing, the award-winning faculty offers advice, support, and knowledge to prepare graduates to meet these challenges.

“We really mentor our students to do well,” Dr. Knestrick said. “We have a faculty of outstanding leaders who understand what it takes to be a leader in today’s changing times.”

AUTHOR Meredith Lidard Kleeman

November 1, 2021November 10, 2021

Amid Pandemic, Working to Address Health Disparities and Vaccine Hesitancy in Washington, D.C.

For the past few years, GW Nursing Assistant Professor Erin Athey, D.N.P., FNP-BC, RN, FAANP has been working with United Medical Center (UMC) in Washington, D.C., running its mobile clinic program. Before COVID-19 struck, she partnered with the District of Columbia Housing Authority to provide primary and preventative care to people in Wards 7 and 8 public housing. The UMC mobile vans, out of which she operates the clinic, help to address health disparities and improve access to health care for the most underserved populations in D.C. These clinics also provide a unique and vital opportunity for GW Nursing students to get clinical hours and serve these communities.

COVID-19-era work

Once the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, the mobile clinic program received federal funds through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to support its ongoing work and to equip it for the new challenges posed by COVID-19. By July 2020, the mobile clinic was going into the community two to three days each week. Dr. Athey and her students conducted extensive PCR COVID-19 testing during the summer and fall of 2020 while continuing to provide care such as HIV testing, general health care screenings, and referrals.

Beginning in 2021, once the COVID-19 vaccines received emergency use authorization, Dr. Athey used the vans as vaccination clinics, going to family properties throughout Wards 7 and 8. As was the case throughout much of the country, there was initially a huge demand for the vaccine, but in summer 2021, Dr. Athey and her team began to encounter fewer people willing to take the jab and more resistance to vaccination. This phenomenon is known as vaccine hesitancy.

According to Dr. Athey, the two main issues now leading to vaccine hesitancy and low vaccine uptake are access and trust. She said that even the complicated issue of misinformation can be broken down into having access to the facts and trusting the source enough to believe them. Overall, access issues can be greatly mitigated with the mobile clinic, which takes the shot directly to the people who might not have the time or means to get to the pharmacy. Trust, however, takes time to build. The strategy of the clinicians and students running the mobile van: Make connections, bring the facts, keep showing up. Dr. Athey said, “I do feel like it matters to go out, to show up… It’s not overnight that it’ll get fixed, but being there continuously over time makes a difference.”

Wards 7 and 8 have the lowest vaccine uptake of all of D.C., and given that these are primarily Black communities, this is a matter of health and racial equity. In D.C., Black people make up 56 percent of COVID-19 cases, 71 percent of deaths, and 46 percent of the total population, but they have received only 43 percent of vaccinations.ⁱ Continued vaccination efforts like those of the mobile clinic are crucial.

One unique way that Dr. Athey and her team have sought to reach new populations with the COVID-19 vaccine in recent months was the Beat the Streets program, a community outreach event in which they partnered with the Metropolitan Police Department. Outreach events like this allow Dr. Athey, the students, and other clinicians to talk to people in their own communities and help inspire confidence in vaccine safety, an approach that has been most successful with people who are still on the fence about the vaccine. With those who are firmly opposed to the vaccine, talking about its merits often has limitations. However, as vaccine mandates become more and more common among various employers—including the D.C. police, health care institutions, federal government, and many private businesses—there has been an influx of vaccine acceptance. Tapping into this, Dr. Athey and the mobile clinic team recently held a clinic downtown for restaurant employees as new mandates went into effect for their places of work.

The future of the clinic

The mobile clinic will continue to operate throughout the pandemic, providing testing and vaccinations, and building trust with the community. Dr. Athey hopes that the program will continue to grow. She is looking for grants, donors, and foundations to help fund the clinic’s care of the underserved communities in D.C. Furthermore, although UMC has not previously seen children, Dr. Athey is hopeful that the clinic can soon expand its services to include wellness exams, prevention, and vaccinations for kids. She also would like to expand the partnership with the D.C. Housing Authority and begin creating place-based clinics at some of the public housing properties. This would follow the cost-saving “minute clinic” model, utilizing nurse practitioners, nursing students, and resident navigators to continue to build trust and provide access to care.

GW Nursing is proud to be in partnership with Dr. Athey, UMC, the D.C. Housing Authority, and so many others who are working to advance health equity in our community. It is important for nurses and our GW Nursing community to be innovative and committed to equity, continuing to create new models of health care that build trust and increase engagement with disenfranchised communities. The mobile clinic is just one such model. As the most trusted health care professionals, nurses are in a unique position to lead this movement. Dream big and take action!

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AUTHOR Meredith Lidard Kleeman

November 1, 2021November 10, 2021

Faculty Awards & Honors: May 2021 – October 2021

GW Nursing is teaming with accomplished, well-respected faculty who are experts in their fields, and each year the awards and honors roll in, rewarding them for their excellent work.

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Dr. Linda Cassar received AWHONN Excellence in Education (Scholarly) Award.

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Dr. Adriana Glenn received the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation grant award in the amount of $49,995 for her proposal: A Nurse-Led Approach to Testing and Adapting a Telehealth Guide for E-Empathy in Goals of Care Conversations for African American/Black Kidney Patients, submitted to the Hillman Emergent Innovation: Serious Illness and End of Life Program (HSEI) 2021.

Dr. Kathleen Griffith received the 2021 Katzen Cancer Research Micro Grant Award ($4,865.00) for her research entitled, “A Feasibility Study of Sarcopenia and Treatment Toxicity in Patients with Co-Occurring Cancer and HIV”. Co-investigators include her colleagues in GW Cancer Center Hematology-Oncology, Faysal Haroun, MD and Khristine Arrieta, DNP, CRNP-F.

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Dr. Ellen Kurtzman is appointed as the Vice Chair of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues (IRGNI) by AcademyHealth. The appointment is a 2-year term starting September 1 (2021). IRGNI is one of several Interest Groups (IGs) of AcademyHealth – IGs are groups of members that convene on specialized topics to facilitate interaction and create opportunities to exchange knowledge, disseminate research findings, inform policy and clinical decision-making, build research skills, and network.

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Dr. Daisy Le has been selected to receive an American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Student and Early Career Investigator Scholarship (SECIS).

Dr. Daisy Le received NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) award in the amount of $50,000 per year for 2 years for her project title: Understanding and Intervening on Multi-Level and Contextual Factors Associated with Cancer-Related Health Disparities.

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Dr. Tony Yang received award of $1 million for Local Community-Based Workforce To Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Access project from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). July 27, 2021.

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Local and Global Presentations: May 2021 – October 2021

Our faculty have presented at conferences, meetings and webinars throughout the world and online on topics ranging from COVID-19 to early literacy to nursing leadership and more.

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Cox, C.W., Wiersma, G., McNelis, A., Tebbenhoff, B., Schumann, M.J.,& Maring, J. (2021, September). Success in BSN Degree Completion: Military Student Nurses with Medical Experience. Poster presentation at the National League for Nursing Education Summit, National Harbor, MD. September 23-25, 2021.

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Darcy-Mahoney, A. (September 2021). Observational Methods to Evaluate Stability and Stress Responses to Nursing Care in Early Premature Infants. Poster presentation at the Academy of Neonatal Nursing Conference: National Neonatal/Mother Baby/Advanced Practice Nurses Conference.September 8-11, 2021. Chicago, IL

Drenkard, K. (April 2021). Disruptive technologies and strategies used with implications for healthcare professionals on education and practice. Session moderator at the 2021 GW Digital Health Summit. April 15, 2021 (virtual)

Drenkard, K. (May 2021). Leadership Challenges and Opportunities. Presentation at the Meritus Health System. Frederick MD. May 2021.

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Emard, Esther (June 2021). Embedding Healthcare Quality Competencies into Nursing Academic Programs. Presentation atthe QSEN International Forum. June 2, 2021. (virtual)

Emard, E. (September 2021). Stories from the Healthcare Quality Trenches: A Fireside Chat with the NAHQ Board of Directors. Part of a Board presentation at the Annual NAHQ Next conference, September 13-15. Virtual conference

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Fey, M. (September 2021). Resilience Through Connection. Keynote address at the National League for Nursing Education Summit, Washington, D. C. September 23-25, 2021.

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Kesten, K., Conrad, D.(August 2021). A Global Team Approach to Strengthen the Reach and Impact of Advanced Practice Nurses, presentation at the Eleventh International Council of Nurses’ NP/ APN Network Conference, August 29-September 4

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Leslie, Mayri S. (March 2021). Umbillical Cord Management and Placental Transfusion. Presentation at Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles

Leslie, Mayri S. (July 2021). Preeclampsia Survivor’s Perceptions of Risk for Future Cardiovascular Disease. Presentation at SRI International. July 7, 2021. (virtual)

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Ricciardi, R. (September 2021). Nursing’s Enduring Contributions Amidst Global Health Challenges. Presentation at the 4th Sigma Asia Region Conference. Silliman University, Phillipines. September 8, 2021. Virtual conference

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Walsh, J.M., Stevens, K.E., Choma, E.G., & Clarke, J.A. (September 2021) Exploring Implicit Bias in Pediatric Nursing Students. Poster presentation at the National League for Nursing Education Summit, Washington, D. C. September 23-25, 2021.

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Faculty Publications: May 2021 – October 2021

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Take a look at the latest scholarly publications from GW Nursing faculty. From articles to books to peer-reviewed journals, our faculty are sharing their expertise.

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Alshawish, I., El-Banna, M.,& Alrimawi, I. (2021). Comparison of Blended Versus Traditional Classrooms among Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Quasi-Experimental Study. Nurse Education Today. Available Online. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2021.105049

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Covelli, A.,Mullan, F., Fair, M., Meiri, A., Zeidan, A., O’Donnell, S., & Darcy-Mahoney, A. (2021). Beyond Flexner: A novel framework to implement the social mission of medical education. Education in the Health Professions, 4(2), 50.

Jeffries, P., Cox, C., Dawn, K., Drenkard, K., Slaven-Lee, P., Tanner, J., & Wiersma, G. (2021). “Obtaining clinical hours for students during the pandemic: Creative solutions.” Virginia Nurses Today, 29(1), 1, 20 -21.

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Drenkard, K., Sakallaris, B., Deyo, P., Abdillahi, S., & Hahn, H. (2021). University COVID -19 Surveillance Testing Center: Challenges and Opportunities for Schools of Nursing. Journal of Professional Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2021.07.004

Turkel, M., Smith, Marlaine, Tappen, R., Hansell, P. Fawcett, J., Alanbry, T., Drenkard, K.(Accepted for publication: In print November 2021): Nursing Theory Guiding Nursing Practice: A Mixed Method Study. Journal of Nursing Administration, Nov 21

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Kesten, K. S., & El-Banna, M. M. (2020). Facilitators, barriers, benefits, and funding to implement postgraduate nurse practitioner residency/fellowship programs. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 1. https://doi.org/10.1097/jxx.0000000000000412

Kesten, K.,Moran, K., Beebe, S. L., Conrad, D., Burson, R., Corrigan, C., Manderscheid, A., & Pohl, E. (2021). Practice scholarship engagement as reported by nurses holding a doctor of nursing practice degree. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Publish Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1097/jxx.0000000000000620

Kurtzman, E. T., & Young-Wolff, K. C. (2021). Why Do Americans Use Marijuana? Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 108880. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108880

Kurtzman, E. T., & Wyche, K. F. (in press). Prevalence and Correlates of HIV Testing among Sexual Minorities. American Journal of Health Behavior. 45 (5).

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Le, D., Hong, A., Azor Hui, S.K., Rimal, R. N., & Juon, H.S. (2021). Assessment of Hepatitis B Virus Screening Behaviors among Asian-Americans through the Lens of Social Cognitive Theory. Californian Journal of Health Promotion, 19(1), 76-83. https://doi.org/10.32398/cjhp.v19i1.2652

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Mahoney, A. D., Brito, N., Baralt, M., Buerlein, J., Patel, S., & Lu, M. (2021). Innovating Maternal and Child Health: Incentive Prizes to Improve Early Childhood Development. Maternal and Child Health Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-021-03219-y

McKague, D. K., Beebe, S. L., McNelis, A. M., & Dreifuerst, K. T. (2021). Lack of pediatric mental health clinical experiences among FNP students. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 35(3), 267–270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2021.03.008

McNelis, A.M. (2021). Achieving Distinction through Commitment to Pedagogical Scholarship. In M. Adams and T. Valiga (Eds). Achieving Distinction in Nursing Education (1st ed.) Wolters Kluwer

McNelis, A.M. recently co-authored an op-ed article titled Evidence vs. Eminence: Clinical hours in nursing education. (2021). Journal of Professional Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2021.07.008

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Ohue, T., Aryamuang, S., Bourdeanu, L., Church, J. N., Hassan, H., Kownaklai, J., Pericak, A., & Suwannimitr, A. (2021). Cross‐national comparison of factors related to stressors, burnout and turnover among nurses in developed and developing countries. Nursing Open. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.1002

Poghosyan, L, Pulcini, J., Chan, G. Dunphy, L., Martsolf, G., Greco, K., Todd, B., Brown, S., Fitzgerald, M. McMenamin, A., Solari-Twadell, A, (2021, In Press). State responses to COVID-19: Full practice authority for Nurse Practitioner workforce in primary care. Nursing Outlook

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Yang, Y. T., & Chen, B. K. (2021). Liability Waivers for COVID-19. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, Publish Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1097/phh.0000000000001398

Yang, Y. T., Stratmann, T., & Pillai, D. (2021). Effects of State Preemption of Local Smoke-Free Restrictions on US Adult Cigarette Smoking Prevalence, 1997 to 2017. Journal of General Internal Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-021-07115-7

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Community-Based Project Aims to Increase Local COVID-19 Vaccination Rates

A George Washington University School of Nursing researcher received $1 million in federal support for a new initiative to expand and evaluate COVID-19 vaccine access to increase vaccination rates among communities in the Washington, D.C., region that have been disproportionately harmed by the pandemic.

Working with community partners, Y. Tony Yang, the endowed professor in health policy and executive director of the Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement, will target racial and ethnic minority groups, including African, Hispanic and Asian communities, living in east and southeast Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland.

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June 10, 2021

Faculty Awards & Honors: July 2020 – April 2021

GW Nursing is teaming with accomplished, well-respected faculty who are experts in their fields, and each year the awards and honors roll in, rewarding them for their excellent work.

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Dr. Melissa Batchelor’s project on: Towards Age-Friendly: Improving Lives for All 2.0 has been selected for University Seminars Funding Program 2020-21.

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Dr. Linda Cassar is selected to be an item writer for the National Certification Corporation (NCC) for their new Inpatient Antepartum Core Certification Exam.

Dr. Linda Cassar is selected to serve on AWHONNs National Membership Committee for 2021-2022.

Dr. Linda Cassar has been appointed to be the co-chair of the Northern VA/DC chapter of Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)

Dr. Catherine Cox received a $148,462.00 federal grant award from the TriService Nursing Research Program for her project “Nursing on the Ocean Blue.”

Dr. Cathi Cox is inducted as Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing

Drs. Catherine Cox, Angie McNelis and Michelle Rumble received funding ($25,000) from Competency & Credentialing Institute (CCI) Research Foundation for their project: Addressing the Perioperative Succession Crisis: How a Perioperative Nursing Elective Contributes to Recruitment and Retention. October 21, 2020.

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Dr. Ashley Darcy-Mahoney is selected to participate as a panel member for the New York Academy of Medicine Event: The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. June 22, 2021

Dr. Ashley Darcy-Mahoney is invited to participate in the NIH/CSR review for PAR Panel: Pediatric and Obstetric Pharmacology and Therapeutics. April 19-20, 2021.

Dr. Ashley Darcy-Mahoney is selected to participate in the upcoming 2021 NAM Emerging Leaders Forum (the Forum), April 20 – 21, 2021.

Dr. Ashley Darcy-Mahoney received invited distinguished scholar position at University of Chicago Dept of Economics. Griffin Applied Economics Incubator. Summer 2020. https://voices.uchicago.edu/griffinincubator/visitors/

Drs. Sandra Davis and Karen Kesten are selected to serve on the DNPs of Color Inaugural Advisory Committee. March 21, 2021. www.docdnps.org

Dr. Sandra Davis received $2000 award for her project: The Healing Power of Music. Interprofessional Collaboration with Nursing, Music and Psychology faculty. GW University Seminar series 2020-2021

Drs. Karen Dawn and Erin Athey received $5,000 grant award from the GW Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service for their project: Health Equity with DCHA. March 25, 2021.

Dr. Maritza Dowling was awarded funding ($14,992) from the FY21 COVID-19 Research Fund competition through the GW Office of the Vice Provost for Research for her submission, Usability and Acceptability of Telehealth Technologies During COVID-19 Among a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample of Medicaid and Medicare Beneficiaries.

Dr. Karen Drenkard was elected to serve on the AAN Board of Directors as Secretary.

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Dr. Majeda El Banna is inducted as Fellow into the National League for Nursing (NLN) Academy of Nursing Education.

Dr. Majeda El Banna is selected to serve on the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS) Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Accessibility (IDEA) Advisory Group

Ms. Esther Emard is appointed to the Board of Directors for the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) and named the Director-at-Large.

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Dr. Jeanne Geiger Brown is appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal Sleep Medicine Reviews

Dr. Kathleen Griffith is Inducted as Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing

Dr. Kathleen Griffith will co-lead a project: Geriatric and Functional Assessments in Non-AIDS Defining Cancers ($496, 413). The P30 umbrella grant is held by Kevin Cullen, who is the cancer center director (P30CA134274 ). The goal of this research is to document relative differences in accelerated aging indicators between patients with NADCS and those with cancer who do not have a history of HIV disease.

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Dr. Pamela Jeffries has been elected to a second term as a member of AAN’s Board of Directors.

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Dr. Karen Kesten received $595 grant award from Phi Epsilon Chapter of Sigma for research project: Employers’ perspective of practice scholarship outcomes of nurses holding a DNP degree.

Dr. Karen Kesten was awarded the 2021 Morton A. Bender Teaching Award by the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs for her excellence in teaching. She will also be inducted as a full member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Dr. Joyce Knestrick was awarded the 2021 Towers Pinnacle Award by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) for her sustained history of outstanding contributions, resulting in increased national recognition of the NP role and enhanced opportunities for NPs to provide care to patients.

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Dr. Daisy Le is selected to receive an AACR Scholar-in-Training Award to support her attendance at the AACR Virtual Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved, being held from October 2-4, 2020.

Dr. Daisy Le received funding ($5000) for a District of Columbia Center for AIDS Research (DC CFAR) microgrant to support her project titled: HPV Self-Sampling to Concurrently Promote Cervical and Anal Cancer Screenings among Women Living with HIV (WLH). October 7, 2020

Drs. Carla Berg (Milken Institute SPH PCH) and Daisy Le’s R01 project title: Regulatory Impact on VapeShops and Young Adults’ Use of ENDS – Diversity Supplement is funded ($412,301) by the NIH.

Dr. Dale Lupu and Amanda Nicklas’s project was approved for $1.16 million in funding by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s (PCORI) Board of Governors and will scale up a multi-modal patient-centered intervention to improve advance care planning (ACP) for dialysis patients to over 3,500 patients in 50 dialysis clinics.

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Dr. Anne-Marie O’Brien’s project on ““Addressing Income Inequality and Its Growing Threat
to Our Nation and The World” was selected for GW University Seminar Series funding ($4,000) for 2020-2021.

Drs. Anne-Marie O’Brien and Sandra Davis received $2750 award from GW Nashman Center Faculty Development for Community-Engaged Scholarship 2020-2021 for “Optimizing Health in an Urban Community: Bringing Together Community, Nursing, Nutrition and Mindfulness in DC’s Ward 8”

Dr. Anne-Marie O’Brien received $4,940 award for her project: “A simulation-based peer intervention training Program to increase active bystandership among a sample of police officers”. Drexel University – Rapid Response to Racial Injustices Grant Program 2020.

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Dr. Cara Padovano is selected to participate in the second cohort of GW Academic Leadership Academy.

Dr. Joyce Pulcini received the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Achievement Award.

Dr. Joyce Pulcini is elected to the Organizational Development Committee of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS).

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Dr. Ric Ricciardi is appointed as a Fellow Ad Eundem of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI).

Dr. Ric Ricciardi is elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). His term begins on July 1, 2021.

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Dr. Rhonda Schwindt received $29,997 grant award from the National League for Nursing for Impact of simulation versus case‐based learning on psychiatric nurse practitioner students’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors related to mental health care for gender diverse people submission. Designated as the Ruth Donnelly Corcoran Research Award recipient. May 21, 2021.

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Dr. Sherrie Wallington is selected to participate in the second cohort of GW Academic Leadership Academy.

Dr. Sherrie Wallington is invited to participate in a virtual meeting of the President’s Cancer Panel (PCP) Series—Improving Resilience and Equity in Cancer Screening: Lessons from COVID-19 and Beyond. Virtual – November 9 and 10, 2020

Drs. Sherrie Wallington & Tony Yang are selected as fellows for 2020 RWJF Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program (IRL). They received $359,000 award for their project, “It’s a Dad Thing: Fathers as Powerful Agents of Change in Reducing Disparities in Maternal Mortality in the District of Columbia”, a mixed-methods (key informant interviews, survey, and a policy analysis) study examining the role of fathers in reducing maternal mortality in the District of Columbia. DC has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality, especially among Black women.

Ms. Jennifer Walsh and Elizabeth Choma accepted to GW 2021 Course Design Institute from May 17 – 22.

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Dr. Tony Yang is selected to participate in the upcoming 2021 NAM Emerging Leaders Forum (the Forum), April 20 – 21, 2021.

Dr. Tony Yang has been selected to take part in an academic exchange and exploration of Israel.

Dr. Tony Yang was awarded a 2-year grant as PI by the HHS for $600,000 for his project title: A Community-based Patient Navigation Model for Hepatitis C Screening and Linkage to Care in People with Substance Use Disorders and Other High-Risk Populations in the District of Columbia.

June 9, 2021June 9, 2021

Local and Global Presentations: July 2020 – April 2021

Our faculty have presented at conferences, meetings and webinars throughout the world and online on topics ranging from COVID-19 to early literacy to nursing leadership and more.

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Yawn, B. and Batchelor, M. (March 2021). Understanding COPD in Older Adults. Podcast presentation on GSA Momentum Discussions. March 2021. https://bit.ly/3cCK8Ps

Batchelor, M. (Host). (January 25, 2021). The 4M’s Framework: Medication with Ayo Bankole & Tahira Lodhi (Episode 46). [Audiovisual podcast]. This is Getting Old: Moving Towards an Age-Friendly World. https://bit.ly/3t1vd8T

Batchelor, M. (July 2020) 3 Things to Know if You Get Sick During COVID. Podcast. July 14, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=101m0sIyOA8

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Cox, C. (December 13, 2020). “Authentic Assessments in Nursing Education.” Presentation for the Nursing Department, College of Health and Sport Sciences, the University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain. (virtual)

Cox, C., Wiersma, G. (December 7, 2020). “The Transition of Military BSN Students to the Civilian Classroom as well as to the Profession.” Podium and poster presentation at the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS) 2020 Annual Meeting. (virtual)

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Falusi, L., Hallowell, S. & Darcy-Mahoney, A. (April 26, 2021). 5 Practical Steps to Infuse Health Equity into Your Pediatric Practice presentation at the Beyond Flexner Alliance Conference. (virtual)

Davis, S (September 24, 2020). Racism and Toxic Stress: The Physiological Effects of Racism presentation at the 2020 Virtual NLN Education Summit.

Dawn, Karen (June 2021). A School of Nursing-led community initiative to identify and reduce hypertension in Mukono district, Uganda. Presentation at the Association of Community Health Nurse Educators. June 10 – 11, 2021. (virtual)

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El-Banna, M. (May 2021). Team-based learning: a strategy to foster active learning and improve pharmacology standardized test and final examination scores presentation to the Faculty of Baghdad College of Medical Sciences, Iraq (May 20, 2020, virtual).

El-Banna, M. & Kesten, K. (March 25-26, 2021). Generating Nursing Science to Better Understand Nurse Practitioner Fellowship/Residency Programs. The 33rd Eastern Nursing Research Society Annual Scientific Sessions (virtual)

El-Banna, M. (September 2020). Nurse Practitioner Residency/Fellowship Programs: Innovation in Nursing Education. Presentation at the 2020 NLN Education Summit. September 24, 2020. (virtual)

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Faraz-Covelli, A., Pittman, P. & Darcy-Mahoney, A. (April 26, 2021). Social Mission and the Culture of Health: Nursing Schools Educating for Health Equity presentation at the Beyond Flexner Alliance (Virtual) Conference.

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Jeon, M., Griffith, K., and Le, D. (October 2020). Overweight/Obesity in Low SES Minority Children poster presentation at the American Academy of Nursing’s 2020 Transforming Health, Driving Policy Conference (October 29-31, 2020, virtual).

Griffith, K. (October 2020). Advancing the science of cancer symptom management through research collaboration and mentorship. A plenary session at Walden University Annual Research Conference October 2, 2020

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Kesten, K., Moran, K., Beebe, S., Conrad, D., Burson, R., Corrigan, C., Manderscheid, A. (January 2021). Reasons for Seeking the DNP Degree and Competencies Acquired as Reported by Nurses in Practice, poster presentation at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Doctoral Education Conference, January 20-22, virtual.

Kesten, K., Moran, K., Beebe, S., Conrad, D., Manderscheid, A. (January 20, 2021). Practice Scholarship Outcomes as Reported by Practicing Nurses Holding a DNP Degree, podium presentation at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Doctoral Education Conference, January 20-22, virtual.

Kurtzman, E. (July 7, 2020) Bridging the Gap: From Research to Policy. A guest piece for the National Library of Medicine (NLM) monthly blog – Musings from the Mezzanine. July 7, 2020.

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Le, D., Coriolan, A.R., Pan, J., Berg, C.J., Hong, A.Y., Nguyen, A., Le, H.C., Abroms, L., Juon, H.S., & Yang, Y.T. (October 2-4, 2020). Viral hepatitis among foreign-born communities in the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area: 5-year prevalence data and implications for linkage to care follow-up. Presentation at the 13th American Association for Cancer Research Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved, Virtual.

Jeon, M.J., Coriolan, A.R., & Le, D. (September 16, 2020). HIV and Hepatitis Co-Infections, and Cervical Cancer Screening for Women Living with HIV. Invited talk presented to the Heart to Hand, Inc., virtual/webinar.

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Posey, L., Venzke, M., Rilko, L., Briggs, L. & Pintz, P. (November 6, 2020). Teaching with Technology: Strategies & Tools for Learner Engagement. Presentation at the NONPF 2020 Fall Conference: Excellence in Virtual NP Education.

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Ricciardi, R. (April 2021). Opportunity Awaits: Are We Ready to be Disruptive Innovators in Healthcare? Keynote presentation at the Sigma Theta Tau Southern Ohio Northern Kentucky Annual Consortium 2021.

Ricciardi, R. (April 2021). Implementation Science and Care Improvement. Presentation at the Helen K. Grace/Nursing Deans Distinguished Lecture. South Dakota State University 2021.

Ricciardi, R. (December 15, 2020). Advanced Nursing Practice and Nursing Leadership in
Times of Public Health Emergencies. Presentation at the Najran Saudi Arabia 2nd Health Forum. (Virtual Conference)

Ricciardi, R. (November 13, 2020). Convocation Keynote Address at the Florida Atlantic University Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing.

Ricciardi, R. (November 11, 2020). Role of the APN during Public Health Crisis, a presentation at the annual meeting of the Irish Association of Advanced Nurse Midwife Practitioners (IAANMP) and the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland Faculty of Nursing and Midwife

Ricciardi, R. (July 2020). Infusing joy during a global pandemic. Presentation at the Philippine Nurses Association of America (PNAA) 41st Annual & 1st Virtual Convention. July 3, 2020.

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Schwindt, R., & Forssell, S. (February 3, 2021). Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Addressing Mental HealthCare in the LGBTQ Community and Serving Gender Diverse Patients. Neuroscience Education Institute, Podcast. https://neiglobal.libsyn.com/

Schwindt, R. (November 2020). Integrating Gender-Affirming Care into Primary Care Settings. 9th Annual Doctor of Nursing Practice Colloquium. Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT.

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Yang, YT. (October 27, 2020). The effects of state preemption of local smoke-free restrictions on smoke prevalence. Presentation at the American Public Health Association (APHA), Annual Research Meeting, Virtual.

June 9, 2021June 9, 2021

Faculty Publications: July 2020 – April 2021

Take a look at the latest scholarly publications from GW Nursing faculty. From articles to books to peer-reviewed journals, our faculty are sharing their expertise.

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Bankole, A.O. & Marchi, N. (2021). Using a guided note-taking tool in a prelicensure pharmacology course. Nurse Educator doi: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001015

Kolanowski, A., Cortes, T., Mueller, C., Bowers, B., Boltz, M…Batchelor, M., et al (2021). Call to the CMS: Mandate Adequate Professional Nurse Staffing in Nursing Homes. American Journal of Nursing, 121(3), 22-25.

Liu, W., Batchelor, M.K., Williams, K.N. (2020). Development and Psychometric Testing of the Mealtime Engagement Scale (MES) in Direct Care Providers of Nursing Home Residents with Dementia. The Gerontologist. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaa097

Liu, W, Batchelor, M., Williams, K. (2020) Ease of Use, Feasibility, and Inter-rater Reliability of the Refined Cue Utilization and Engagement in Dementia (CUED) Mealtime Video-coding Scheme. Journal of Advanced Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14548

Liu W., Perkhounkova, E., Williams, K., Batchelor, M., Hein, M. (2020). Food Intake is associated with Verbal Interactions between Nursing Home Staff and Residents with Dementia: A Secondary Analysis of Videotaped Observations. Journal of Advanced Nursing. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2020.103654 PMID: 32535342

Liu, W., Williams, K., Batchelor, M., Perkhounkova, Y., & Hein, M. (2020). Mealtime verbal interactions among nursing home staff and residents with dementia: A secondary behavioral analysis of videotaped observations. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 77(3), 1244–1257. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14647

Liu, W., & Batchelor, M. (2020). Mealtime Caregiving Engagement for Residents with Advanced Dementia: Item Response Theory Analysis. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 019394592094389. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193945920943898

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Cox, C. W., Wiersma, G. M., & McNelis, A. M. (2020). Military nursing. Nursing, 50(11), 56–59. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.nurse.0000719216.45758.c8

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Tubbs-Cooley, H. L., Lavin, R., Lyndon, A., Anderson, J., Baernholdt, M., Berry, P., Bosse, J. D., Mahoney, A. D., Gibbs, K. D., Donald, E. E., Donevant, S., Dorsen, C., Fauer, A., French, R., Gilmore-Bykovskyi, A., Greene, M., Morse, B. L., Patil, C. L., Rainbow, J., & Ruppar, T. M. (2021). Stronger together: The case for multidisciplinary tenure track faculty in academic nursing. Nursing Outlook, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2021.03.016

Brasher, S., Becklenberg, A., Darcy Mahoney, A., Ross, K., & Stapel-Wax, J. (2021). Integrating early brain science and skills into prelicensure nursing curriculum to promote parent-child interaction. Nurse Educator. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000000983

Lewis, T. T., Kim, H., Darcy-Mahoney, A., Waldron, M., Lee, W. H., & Park, C. H. (2021). Robotic uses in pediatric care: A comprehensive review. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 58, 65–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2020.10.016

Darcy-Mahoney, A., Westphaln, K., Covelli, A., and Mullan, F. (2020). Advancing Social Mission in Nursing Education: Recommendations from an expert advisory board. Journal of Nursing Education. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20200723-03

Ahmad, K. A., Darcy-Mahoney, A., Kelleher, A. S., Ellsbury, D. L., Tolia, V. N., & Clark, R. H. (2020). Longitudinal Survey of COVID-19 Burden and Related Policies in U.S. Neonatal Intensive Care Units. American Journal of Perinatology. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1718944

Baralt, M., & Darcy Mahoney, A. (2020). Bilingualism and the executive function advantage in preterm-born children. Cognitive Development, 55, 100931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100931

Davis, S., & O’Brien, A.-M. (2020). Let’s talk about racism: Strategies for building structural competency in nursing. Academic Medicine. Published Ahead-of-Print. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/toc/publishahead

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Faraz Covelli, A., Flaherty, S., & McNelis, A. M. (2021). An Innovative Distance-Based Mentorship Program for Nurse Practitioner Student-Alumni Pairs. Nursing Education Perspectives.

Barnes, H., Faraz Covelli, A., & Rubright, J. D. (2021). Development of the novice nurse practitioner role transition scale. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Publish Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1097/jxx.0000000000000566

Farina, C.L. & Bryant, K. (2021) Simulation-Based Operations in C. Kasper & T. Schneidereith (Eds) Annual Review in Nursing Research 30 (1), 181-200. https://doi.org/10.1891/0739-6686.39.181

Farina, C. (2020). Setting up a simulation center and its essentials. In P. Jeffries (Ed), Simulation in nursing education: From conceptualization to evaluation (3rd ed., pp. 99-121). Wolters Kluwer.

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Glenn, A. and Glenn, W. (2020). Educational Leaders’ Need for Health Literacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Journal of School of Administration Research and Development

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Jeffries, P. R. (2021). Simulation in Nursing Education: From Conceptualization to Evaluation. (3rd ed., pp. 99-121). Wolters Kluwer.

Jeffries, P., Bauman, E., Farina, C., & Slaven-Lee, P. (2020). The future of simulation in healthcare. In J. Palaganas, B. Ulrich, & B. Mancini (Eds.), Mastering simulation: A handbook for success (2nd ed., pp. 297-308). Sigma Theta Tau.

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Kesten, K. S., Moran, K., Beebe, S. L., Conrad, D., Burson, R., Corrigan, C., Manderscheid, A., & Pohl, E. (2021). Drivers for seeking the doctor of nursing practice degree and competencies acquired as reported by nurses in practice. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Publish Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1097/jxx.0000000000000593

Kesten, K. & Echevarria, M. (2021). Strategies for Strengthening Quality Improvement Projects in Doctor of Nursing Practice Programs, Journal of Doctor of Nursing Practice.
DOI: 10.1891/JDNP-D-20-00034 (published ahead of print).

Kesten, K. & El-Banna, M. (2021). Strategies to Re-envision Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects to Meet Organization Goals During a Pandemic, Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 52(2):61-63 https://doi.org/10.3928/00220124-20210114-03

Kesten, K. S., & Beebe, S. L. (2021). Competency frameworks for nurse practitioner residency and fellowship programs. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Publish Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1097/jxx.0000000000000591

Conrad, D., Moran, K., Burson, R., Kesten, K., Corrigan, C. and Hussey, P. (2020). The Practice Doctorate Approach to Assessing Advanced Nursing Practice in Ireland. International Nursing Review: The Official Journal of the International Council of Nurses 67, 535-542. https://doi.org/10.1111/inr.12624

Kurtzman, E. T., & Barnow, B. S. (2020). Do Teams Improve the Quality of Ambulatory Care? Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, Publish Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1097/jac.0000000000000372

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Windon, M. J., Le, D., D’Souza, G., Bigelow, E., Pitman, K., Boss, E., … Fakhry, C. (2021). Treatment decision-making among patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell cancer: A qualitative study. Oral Oncology, 112, 105044.

Schell, J. O., & Lupu, D. E. (2020). A Step in the Right Direction: The Promise of PROMs in Routine Hemodialysis Care. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 15(9), 1228–1230. https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.12350720

Lupu, D. E., Aldous, A., Harbert, G., Kurella Tamura, M., Holdsworth, L., Nicklas, A., Vinson, B., & Moss, A. H. (2020). Pathways Project: Development of a Multimodal Innovation to Improve Kidney Supportive Care in Dialysis Centers. Kidney360, 10.34067/KID.0005892020. https://doi.org/10.34067/kid.0005892020

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Marchi N, Wavelet J, Davis S, Condict M. (2020) Patient Safety Teamwork Using the Clifton® Strengths Finder Tool and Cognitive Rehearsal. Nurse Educator. Volume Publish Ahead of Print – Issue

Chu, E., Lee, K.-M., Stotts, R., Benjenk, I., Ho, G., Yamane, D., Mullins, B., & Heinz, E. (2021). Hospital-based Healthcare Worker Perceptions of Personal Risk related to COVID-19 Authors and affiliations. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. https://www.jabfm.org/sites/default/files/COVID_20-0343.pdf

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Park, J., Faraz Covelli, A., & Pittman, P. (2021). Effects of completing a postgraduate residency or fellowship program on primary care nurse practitioners’ transition to practice. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Publish Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1097/jxx.0000000000000563

Park, J. and Dowling, M. (2020). Do nurse practitioner-led medical homes differ from physician-led medical homes? Nursing Outlook, vol. 68:5, pp. 601-610.

Pericak, A., Hogg, C., Skalsky, K., and Bourdeanu, L. (2020). What influences work engagement among Registered Nurses: Implications for Evidence-based Action, Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1111/wvn.12469

Pintz, C., Briggs, L., Zhou, Q. (Pearl), Nelson, K., & Guzzetta, C. E. (2021). Hospital-Based Nursing Research: Clinical and Economic Outcomes. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 019394592199491. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193945921994911

Pintz, C., Posey, L., Farmer, P., & Zhou, Q. (Pearl). (2021). Interprofessional care of people with multiple chronic conditions: An open-access resource for nursing educators. Nurse Education in Practice, 51, 102990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2021.102990

Muganlinskaya, N., Posey, L., Skojek, D.V., & Resar, J.R. (2021). Implementing the AMI READMITS risk assessment score to increase referrals among patients with Type I Myocardial Infarction. Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management, 28(2), 90-96, 10.12788/jcom.0043.

Ocho, O., Pieper, B., Pulcini, J., & Wheeler, E. (2020). ET/WOC nursing – leadership lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic: an opinion. WCET Journal, 40(3). https://doi.org/10.33235/wcet.40.3.43-46

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Naegle, M., Finnell, D., Kaplan, L., Heer, K., Ricciardi, R., Reuter-Rice, K., Oerther, S. and Van Hook, P. (2020). Opioid Crisis through the Lens of Social Justice, Nursing Outlook, 68:5, pp.678-684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2020.08.014

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Schwindt, R. (2020). LGBTQ Cultural Competency for Pharmacists. Pharmacy Today, https://elearning.pharmacist.com/products/6176/lgbtq-cultural-competency-for-pharmacists.

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Toulouse, C. (2020). Screen capture recordings enhance connectedness among students, course content, and faculty. Journal of Nursing Education. 59, 531-535. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20200817-11

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Tucker-Seeley, R. D., Wallington, S. F., Canin, B., Tang, W., & McKoy, J. M. (2021). Health Equity for Older Adults With Cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology, JCO.21.00207. https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.21.00207

Greaney, M.L., Wallington, S.F., Rampa, S. et al. Assessing health professionals’ perception of health literacy in Rhode Island community health centers: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health 20, 1289 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09382-1

Wiersma, G., Cox, C. W., McNelis, A. M., Schumann, M. J., & Maring, J. (2020). Faculty Perceptions in Facilitating Success for Accelerated BSN Student Veterans. Nursing Education Perspectives, Publish Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.nep.0000000000000673

Wiersma, G., & Hagler, D. (2021). Supporting Clinical Adjunct Faculty to Develop Educator Competencies. Nurse Educator. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000000984

Wiersma, G., Pintz, C., Wyche K. F. (2020) Transition to practice experiences of new graduate nurses From an Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program: Implications for Academic Clinical Partners. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing. 2020;51(9):433-440 https://doi.org/10.3928/00220124-20200812-0

Jaurretche, M., Levy, M., Castel, A. D., Happ, L. P., Monroe, A. K., & Wyche, K. F. (2021). Factors Influencing Successful Recruitment of Racial and Ethnic Minority Patients for an Observational HIV Cohort Study in Washington, DC. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-021-01015-6

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Yang, Y.T. & Rahimzadeh, V. (2021) A digital COVID-19 vaccine passport system is still premature. The Regulatory Review.

Bennett, C. L., Nagai, S., Bennett, A. C., Hoque, S.. Yang, Y. T., Carson, K. R., & Djulbegovic, B. (2021). The First 2 Years of Biosimilar Epoetin for Cancer and Chemotherapy‐Induced Anemia in the U.S.: A Review from the Southern Network on Adverse Reactions. The Oncologist. https://doi.org/10.1002/onco.13713

Yang, Y. T., & Mason, D. J. (2021). Problematic Promotion of Medications by Nurse Ambassadors—Legal and Ethical Issues. JAMA. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.24509

Hoque, S., Chen, B.J., Schoen, M.W., Carson, K.R., Keller, J., Witherspoon, B.J., Knopf, K.B., Yang, Y.T., Schooley, B., Nabhan, C., Sartor, O., Yarnold, P.R., Ray, P., Bobolts, L., Hrushesky, W.J., Dickson, M. and Bennett, C.L. (2020). End of an era of administering erythropoiesis stimulating agents among Veterans Administration cancer patients with chemotherapy-induced anemia. PLoS One. 2020;15(6):e0234541. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234541.

Berg CJ, Yang YT, Pratt-Chapman ML, Evans WD, Cupertino A, Horn K, Bernat DH, Abroms LC, Tercyak KP (2020), Campus tobacco control policies and cessation interventions in college students. Translational Behavioral Medicine 2020. doi:10.1093/tbm/ibaa083

Chen, B.K., Jindal, D., Yang, Y.T., Hair, N.and Yang, C.Y. (2020). Associations between physician supply levels and amenable mortality rates: An analysis of Taiwan over nearly 4 decades. Health Services Insights. doi: 10.1177/1178632920954878.

Bennett, C.L, Schoen, M.W., Hoque, S,..Yang YT. (2020). Improving oncology biosimilar launches in the EU, the USA, and Japan: an updated Policy Review from the Southern Network on Adverse Reactions. The Lancet Oncology. 2020 Dec;21(12):e575-e588. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30485-X

Yang, Y.T., Largent, E.A. (2020). The Lost Decade: Clinical Trials Data Access After Seife v HHS. The American Journal of Managed Care, 27(2). https://doi.org/10.37765/ajmc.2021.88550

Yang, Y.T. and Rubinstein, D. (2020). A federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate: Dubious legality, faulty policy. The Hill. July 23, 2020.

Bennett, C. L., Hoque, S., Aboulafia, D., Lubaczewski, C., Bennett, A. C.….Yang, Y.T, et al. (2020). Consequences to Patients, Clinicians, and Manufacturers When Titanic Adverse Drug Reactions are Identified (1997- 2019): A Report from the Southern Network on Adverse Reactions (SONAR). SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3669128

June 9, 2021

New Associate Dean for Research Named

Going into spring 2021, GW Nursing faced the impending retirement of Dr. Jeanne Geiger-Brown as associate dean for research (ADR). A search team, led by Professor Angie McNelis, took up the charge of evaluating candidates to take over a role that has become increasingly pivotal with the school experiencing record increases in grant funding in recent years. After an exhaustive search, Dr. McNelis and team named Dr. Kathleen Griffith as the new ADR and her tenure began on June 1.

In her new position, Dr. Griffith will provide strategic leadership to support development of capacity and excellence in achieving the school’s research goals and objectives. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and has been an associate professor of nursing at GW since 2017. She also serves as the inaugural assistant dean for the GW Nursing Ph.D. program, a role she graciously agreed to continue until a replacement is named. Dr. Griffith’s scientific focus is on management of symptoms related to cancer and its treatment. Her interdisciplinary research is based at the Baltimore Veterans Administration Geriatric Research and Education Clinical Center and the George Washington University Cancer Center, where she has a secondary appointment as associate professor of medicine.

We recently asked Dr. Griffith about her new role.

Q. What do you see as your highest priorities as you enter this role (e.g., help researchers secure funding, publicity around research)?

A. I have been at the university for a few years and have a general idea of the GW research landscape. Our new faculty-informed GW Nursing strategic plan for research, which is currently undergoing a comment period, will be a rich source of information about priorities. I will also be meeting with faculty individually and in groups to learn about their needs and ideas. In this way, the GW Nursing Office of Research will incorporate perspectives of all faculty who are invested in growing the school’s research enterprise.

Q. More specifically, are there research subject areas that you will prioritize (e.g., health disparities, cancer, kidney disease)?

A. I believe that the GW Nursing research portfolio will continue to grow in the topic areas of highly funded faculty. The current and future areas of research emphasis will position our school to develop high quality training for Ph.D. students and eventually post-docs. I see the growth of research funding at our school as coming from two places: through increased investigator-initiated, extramurally funded research and through training grants for undergraduate and graduate students. In addition, a strong partnership between the GW Nursing Office of Research and the Office of Educational Research and Innovation will leverage the collective talent of our faculty for joint initiatives.

Q. What excites you most about taking on this role?

A. At this early point, my enthusiasm about leading the GW Nursing Office of Research is about operationalizing the research success of our faculty, which will mean something different to each person. I am committed to providing the structures that faculty need to catalyze their research productivity, which will further the mission of the school and university.