Presentations

Sharon L. Dudley-Brown, PhD, RN, FNP, Sr. Rosemary Donley, PhD, RN, C-ANP, Sr. Mary Jean Flaherty, PhD, RN, FAAN, Eileen Sarsfield, MSN, APRN, BC, Laura Taylor, MSN, RN, and Heidi W. Maloni, MS, RN are presenting their paper titled "Changing Public Health Environment and Implications for Public Health Nursing Education" at the American Public Health Association Annual meeting Nov 6-10 in DC

Sr. Rosemary Donley, PhD, RN, C-ANP, Sharon L. Dudley-Brown, PhD, RN, FNP, Sr. Mary Jean Flaherty, PhD, RN, FAAN, Eileen Sarsfield, MSN, APRN, BC, Heidi Maloni, MSN, RN, CRNP, and Laura Taylor, MSN, RN are presenting their paper "Improving access to health care for vulnerable populations: An innovative educational approach" at the American Public Health Association Annual meeting Nov 6-10 in DC.

Joanne R. Duffy DNSc, RN, CCRN will present "Summative Evaluation of Baccalaureate Students' Nurse Caring Behaviors: Preliminary Analysis" at the National League for Nursing Annual Education Summit in Orlando, Florida on October 2, 2004. The research was supported by a grant from the National League for Nursing and is ongoing.

Ellen Mahoney is presenting her paper Opioid Dependence:  A New Paradigm of Treatment at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona October 13-15.

Ellen Mahoney DNSc, APRN BC, CARN and Mary Ann Boyd PhD, DNS, APRN BC presented "Schizophrenia, Recovery and Compliance", an American Psychiatric Nurses Association sponsored program on November 6, 2004 in Rochester NY, on December 11, 2004 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and on March 5, 2005 in Nashville TN.

Heidi Maloni will be a panelist on the topic “Health Policy as it Relates to Newcomers and Immigrants”, at the Washington Metropolitan Public Health Association, PHNurses Special Interest Group, CUASON on October 1 2004.

Heidi Maloni presented her paper Effective Treatment for the Patient with Multiple Sclerosis through Care Coordination: A CE program for pharmacists, nurses & case managers at the Case Manager Annual Convention in Nashville, TN on June 17^th 2004.

Heidi Maloni will be giving a presentations at the Multiple Sclerosis Professional Conference on November 12th in Denver, Colorado.  The presentation is titled Neuropathic Pain in Multiple Sclerosis.

Patricia McMullen will be a presenter at Encore Symposiums Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist continuing education seminars on November 3-4^th 2004 in Sedona Arizona.  Dr. McMullen will deliver 3 presentations titled: Medication Errors in Anesthesia Practice, Navigating the National Practioner Bank Data and Deposition 101.

Patricia McMullen presented at the Contemporary Forums:  Advances in Health Care for Women Over 40 National Conference in Washington, D.C in June 2004.  Her presentation was titled “Medical-Legal Issues to Consider When Caring for Aging Women”.

On April 24^th 2004, Patricia McMullen gave a presentation titled “Legal Issues in Nurse Practitioner Practice” at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference for Nurse Practitioners in College Park, MD.

Sylvia Stevens is presenting a course at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, October 13-17, in Phoenix, Arizona.  The topic for her course is “Integrating Play and Art Therapy Techniques in Family Therapy”.

Publications

Buckley, KM, Tran, BQ & Prandoni, CM. (2004). Receptiveness, use and acceptance of Telehealth by caregivers of stroke patients in the home. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing.

Dudley-Brown, S. (2004). A shot of good cholesterol: Synthetic HDL, a new intervention for atherosclerosis. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 19 (6).

Olsen, S., Dudley-Brown, S. & McMullen, P. (in press). The case for blending pedigrees, genograms and ecomaps: Nursing's contribution to the "Big picture". Nursing and Health Sciences.

Duffy, J., Hoskins, L. & Dudley-Brown, S. (in press). Development and testing of a carding-based intervention for older adults with heart failure. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Duffy, J., Hoskins, L., & Chen, M. (2004). Nonpharmacological strategies for improving heart failure outcomes in the community: A systematic review. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 19(4).

Duffy, J. (2004). Want to graduate nurses who care?: Assessing nursing students’ caring competencies in Annual Review of Nursing Education, 3: 73-97.

Grandjean, Cynthia; McMullen, Patricia; & Newschwander, Gregg   (2004). Vampire Bats Yield Potent Clot Buster for Ischemic Stroke in Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Vol 19,No 6.

Hawkins-Walsh, E. (2004). The Practice doctorate-What’s it all about? The Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, 31 (4), 18.

Hawkins-Walsh, E. (2004). Commentary: On call paediatricians were not better than advice nurses for after hours medical advice in a general paediatric population. Evidence-Based Nursing, 7 (1), 27.

Hawkins-Walsh, E & Stone, C. (2004). National survey of pediatric nurse practitioner curriculum: preparing to meet the mental health needs of children. Pediatric Nursing, 30 (1), 72-78.

McMullen, P. (200-) Chapter 8. Legal issues in critical care. In C. Hudak, B. Murphy, B. Gallo & P.G. Morton (ed) Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach (8^th ed). Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott. (In Press)

Nolan, M., Walton-Moss, B., Taylor, L., & Dane, K. (2004). Living kidney donor decisionmaking: state of the science and directions for future research. Progress in Transplantation, 14 (2), 201-209.

Mahoney, E (2004).  The Fight Against Smoking.  APNA News Vol. 16, (5) 6-7.

Wessel, L. (2005).  Nursing Practitioner in Community Health Setting Today.  Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.  16:1-6.