May 9, 2019
Sinclair School of Nursing – In the News
During the past several weeks, students, faculty, and the nursing program as a whole gained the interest of local media outlets. First, Yang Li, a postdoctoral fellow spoke to KOMU about the model she has developed to help psychiatrists better understand their female post-traumatic stress disorder patients. Li began her research about women and PTSD while she was a doctoral student at the University of Michigan. Li said her research focused on two stress-related hormones, cortisol and oxytocin. These two hormones would work together when stress occurs. “We hypothesized that if those two stress-related hormones work well and interact well,…
May 8, 2019
Verna Adwell Rhodes Endowed Professorship
Friday, May 3, friends, family, former students and faculty from the Sinclair School of Nursing filled the Jesse Rotunda for the announcement and celebration of the establishment of the Verna Adwell Rhodes Endowed Professorship in Nursing. In honor of Rhodes’ achievements, service and generosity, her family and friends have come together to give $1 million to establish the professorship which will help attract and retain influential research faculty in the School of Nursing. Verna Adwell Rhodes’ career as a nurse, professor and researcher has taken her around the world. Her dedication to improving the field of nursing also has helped…
April 5, 2019
DNP On Campus Days
More than 30 DNP students from all areas of study came to Columbia March 9- 13. Students spent the first two and a half days on campus practicing physical assessment skills and clinical skills such as biopsy, nerve block, foreign body removal, motivational interviewing, and assessment of confusion and substance use. Experts spoke to students on diabetes management, care of the eye, and Second Victim. For the second half of the week, students attended the Advanced Practice Assessment and Skills Workshop providing an opportunity to network with Nurse Practitioners from around the state including some of our alumni. Participants…
March 25, 2019
Midwest Nursing Research Society Conference
The Midwest Nursing Research Society (MNRS) held its 43rd Annual Research Conference in Kansas City, Missouri on March 27-30, 2019. The theme for the 2019 conference was “Nursing Research at the Forefront of Healthcare Crises”. A premier nursing research society, the mission of MNRS is to advance science, transform practice and enhance careers through a network of scholars. As one of the co-host schools for the conference, the Sinclair School of Nursing played a big part in making the conference a success. SSON graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, alumni, and faculty gave more than 30 research presentations at the conference and three will…
March 5, 2019
Effectively Treating Hypertension in Underserved Communities
Associate Professor, Maithe Enriquez has partnered with the Dominican Light a Candle Foundation, Kansas City non-profit Dominican Republic Medical Partnership and American non-profit Jonas Philanthropies to pilot a hypertension care program in underserved communities of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic. So far, the results of this program indicate that it is both effective and sustainable. Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a major health concern worldwide, affecting an estimated 31 percent of the world’s population. Low and middle-income countries, such as the Dominican Republic, are disproportionately affected. “Communities of migrant workers in the Dominican…
Feb. 11, 2019
Recent PhD Grad wins $40,000 Research Award
Recent PhD graduate, Elizabeth Monsees, PhD, RN, CIC, FAPIC, Antibiotic Stewardship Program Manager at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, was awarded the 2019-2020 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Heroes Implementation Research Scholar Award for her work in integrating nurses into antibiotic stewardship processes. Elizabeth’s project, titled “Frontline Stewards: Antibiotic Engagement Tool,” leverages her previous work to test the implementation and evaluate the effectiveness of a nurse-developed Antibiotic Engagement Tool (AET). Nurses are uniquely positioned to deploy stewardship strategies across the health care continuum by optimizing the timely administration and discontinuation of antibiotics,…
Nov. 29, 2018
Health Sciences Research Day 2018
The Sinclair School of Nursing was well-represented at the MU Health Sciences Research Day on Thursday, November 15, 2018. Nursing PhD students presenting their research included Reem Al Alawi, Rungnapha Khiewchaum, Christiana Oyewusi, Donna Prentice, and Erin Tallon. For the first time in the history of the Sinclair School of Nursing, we also had three Nursing Postdoctoral fellows showcasing their research: Dr. Kayla Herbell, Dr. Yang Li, and Dr. Rusen Ozturk. Their research addressed a wide range of important health care topics, including allostatic load (chronic stress), cardiovascular health, family caregiving, hypertension, intimate partner violence, mental health, nursing student success,…
Nov. 9, 2018
Marilyn Rantz to Receive March of Dimes Legend in Nursing Award
Rantz was recognized Saturday, Nov 10 at the annual Nurse of the Year Awards gala, presented by Maryville University, held annually to honor exceptional nurses.
Nov. 8, 2018
Nursing School Connected Army Veteran to His Job in the Emergency Room
After serving his country with the Army, Adam Brandes is back home serving his community as a nurse in the ER On June 1, 2013, Adam Brandes’ Army unit had just left a graduation ceremony for new Afghanistan police officers it had trained and was headed back to its base in Ghazni Province. “It was a nice summer day when, out of nowhere, there was a loud explosion and a cloud of dirt,” Brandes said. Staff Sgt. Job Reigoux was in the lead vehicle with other soldiers and their interpreter when it was struck by a rocket-propelled…
Oct. 29, 2018
Only Missouri School to Achieve Status as a National Student Nurses Association Stellar School
Missouri Nursing Student Association (MONSA) held its annual convention in St. Louis on Thursday and Friday, October 25 & 26.