Several School of Nursing faculty and students attended the 2018 Research Conference of the Western Institute of Nursing (WIN), held in April in Spokane, Washington. Highlights included the induction of Professor Emerita of Family Health Care Nursing Kathryn Lee, RN, PhD, FAAN, into WIN’s Western Academy of Nurses, which recognizes nurses who have demonstrated excellence in nursing practice, including direct care, education or research.
Doctoral student Daniel Linnen, MS, RN-BC, also received a 2018 Carol A. Lindeman Award for outstanding new investigator. Daniel joins the ranks of a very distinguished group of investigators, including Professor Emerita of Family Health Care Nursing Sally Rankin, RN, PhD, FNP, FAAN, and alumna Diana Wilkie, PhD, RN, FAAN.
Faculty members Audrey Lyndon, RN, PhD, FAAN,, Cherry Leung, RN, PhD, Caronline Noya, FNP, PhD, and Mary Louise Fleming, RN, PhD, presented their work.
PhD student poster presentations included:
- Laurie Bauer:
- “Team-Based Primary Care Experiences of Patients with Type II Diabetes”
- Debra Hemmerle: “Cognitive complaints and return to work in mild TBI: A TRACK-TBI study”
- Lenore Hernandez (PhD graduate): “Symptoms of older adults with type2 diabetes and diabetics distress”
- Daniel Linnen: “Rural inpatient mortality study: does rurality predict hospital mortality?”
- Jenny (Hyojin) Min: “Systematic Review of Insulin Pump Discontinuation in Pediatric T1D Patients”
- Alicia Swartz: “Health and safety quality in California licensed family child care homes”
- Shira Winter:” NP Contribution to Value-Based Care"
PhD student podium presentations included:
- Daniel Linnen: “Risk-adjusting pressure injury risk by hospital characteristics (a large hiearchical time-series analysis across 35 Kaiser hospitals in California)”
- Kimberly Pyke-Grimm (new PhD) “What do we know about how adolescents and young adults make cancer treatment decisions?”
- Dan David (postdoc) “Rehospitalization in Heart Failure Outpatients with and without Cognitive Impairment”
(Photo, left to right: doctoral student Laurie Bauer; Professor Lucy Fisher; Dean Catherine Gilliss; Professors Oi Saeng Hong, Julene Johnson, Kathryn Lee, and Cherry Leung; doctoral students Debra Hemmerle, Alicia Swartz, and Daniel Linnen; Professor Audrey Lyndon; doctoral student Shira Winter)