Voice magazine by Boston College

Spring 2019

Reducing the rash of unnecessary C-sections

from the dean susan gennaro

Dear Friends,

dean Susan Gennaro

With Commencement 2019 behind us, we’re inclined to look back— somewhat bittersweetly—on the accomplishments of our faculty and students as we look forward to the exciting challenges that lie ahead. The Voice news section reports on the hard work of the Connell School community and the many ways they have changed the lives of our patients and their families. We encourage you to read about Assistant Professor Britt Pados’s work predicting Photograph: Caitlin Cunningham problematic feeding in very preterm infants, and the American Nurses Association Massachusetts’s presentation of its 2019 Excellence in Nursing Education Award to Associate Professor Jane Flanagan. This year the Connell School celebrates the 10th anniversary of Keys to Inclusive Leadership in Nursing (KILN), an exceptional program that educates, assists, and encourages students of limited financial means or from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in professional nursing to become nurse leaders. Looking ahead, this issue of Voice reports in depth on Associate Professor Joyce Edmonds’s research in understanding how the presence of labor and delivery nurses affects C-section delivery rates. We also report on the inaugural curriculum for our Doctor of Nursing Practice program, which begins this fall. We will continue to keep in touch with you throughout the academic year, and hope you will keep us updated on your lives and accomplishments. Best wishes,

Susan Gennaro Dean

editor Maureen Dezell

managing editor Tracy Bienen

art director Diana Parziale

graphic designer Christine Hunt

contributors Timothy Gower Zachary Jason Alicia Potter Clea Simon

photographers Caitlin Cunningham Peter Julian Lee Pellegrini

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Spring 2019 news

2 U.S. News & World Report ranked the Connell School’s master’s program 28th in its 2020 Best Nursing Schools rankings. Plus, more honors and awards.

Features

The influencers Associate Professor Joyce Edmonds studies nursesʼ impact on reducing the rash of unnecessary C-sections.

achievements

Welcoming our new faculty Two distinguished researchers join CSON. They bring a strengthsbased approach to studying the aging population, and expertise in biobehavioral factors of cardiovascular health.

Designed for superior care The Connell School’s Doctor of Nursing Practice debuts in fall 2019.

8 Ten years of KILN A look back at the first decade of Keys to Inclusive Leadership in Nursing—by the numbers.

15 Faculty publications

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news by clea simon

Faculty Associate Professor Holly Fontenot and a team of fellow researchers were awarded an American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant for “Cervical Cancer: Progress for Prevention.” Fontenot is a co-investigator on this four-year study, which is focused on current practices in cervical cancer screening, barriers and facilitators of guidelines adoption, and preferences in preparation for upcoming ASCCP/National Cancer Institute guideline revisions.

Nadia Abuelezam Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

Allyssa Harris Photograph: Peter Julian

Assistant Professor Nadia Abuelezam and Associate Professor Allyssa Harris were awarded a Boston College Research Incentive Grant for their proposal “Understanding Arab American Parent Child Sexual Communication.” Associate Professor Joyce Edmonds and fellow researcher Neel Shah’s team of researchers at the Ariadne Lab Delivery Decision Initiative were awarded a grant from CRICO, an advocacy group that

protects providers and promotes patient safety. The project is titled “Understanding the Best Practices of Labor and Delivery Nurses to Improve Patient Safety.” Learn more on page 4. Associate Professor Jane Flanagan was presented with the 2019 Excellence in Nursing Education Award from the American Nurses Association Massachusetts at its annual dinner held in March.

The Connell School of Nursing’s graduate programs performed exceptionally well in the U.S. News & World Report 2020 Best Graduate Schools rankings. CSON rose four spots to 28th Best Nursing U.S. News & World Report 2020 School Master’s Program. It also had a strong showing in the specialty rankings, placing 11th in Nurse Practitioner: Psychiatric/Mental Health, Across the Lifespan; 12th in Nurse Practitioner: Adult Gerontology, Primary Care; and 22nd in Nurse Practitioner: Family. The school’s Nurse Anesthesia program maintained its ranking at 22nd.

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Assistant Professor Carina Katigbak was elected secretary of the Eastern Nursing Research Society Board of Directors. Associate Dean for Research Christopher Lee presented the lecture “Integrative Biobehavioral Research in Heart Failure” as part of the National Institute of Nursing Research Director’s Lecture Series at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. He provided an overview of his innovative approach to the study of chronic illness to an audience that included some of the nation’s top nurse scientists. Read more at www.bc.edu/lee-nih Assistant Professor Britt Pados was awarded a Kimberly-Clark Nursing Research Grant from AWHONN for her project “Patterns and Predictors of Problematic Feeding in Very Preterm Infants after Neonatal Intensive Care.” Pados also received a Boston College Research Incentive Grant for her proposal “Problematic Feeding in the First Six Months of Life in Infants at Risk for Neurodevelopmental Abnormalities.” In Redefining Retirement for Nurses: Finding Meaning in Retirement (Sigma Theta Tau International), Associate Professor Patricia Tabloski and a coauthor present stories from nurses who have continued to contribute to society, and to leverage their talents after retiring. View video at www.bc.edu/tabloski

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Students

Events Caitlin Keenan ’19, a member of the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, was featured in a Boston College video about learning how to lead. “Being a leader is about maturity, being able to see the big picture, and putting others before yourself,” she says. View video at www.bc.edu/ keenan-rotc

Caitlin Keenan Photograph: Madison Polkowitz

Alexa, Jaclyn, and Kylie Russell, all members of the Class of ’22, are believed to be the first triplets to study at Boston College in the same school with the same major. Read more at www.bc.edu/ russell-triplets

Sheila Davis, chief of clinical operations and chief nursing officer at Partners in Health, gave the Connell School’s spring Pinnacle Lecture in April. She talked about the lessons she learned while developing malnutrition programs in South Africa, managing Ebola responses in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and championing global health equity.

Community At the New England Regional Black Nurses Association’s annual presentation of Excellence in Nursing Awards in February, the Connell School was recognized for 10 years of support.

Students in the Population Health Practice in the Community course—taught by Clinical Assistant Professor Donna Cullinan—volunteered at Rosie’s Place, which provides support and a safe environment for poor and homeless women.

Sheila Davis Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

Deborah Washington, M.S. ’93, Ph.D. ’12, director of diversity for Nursing and Patient Care Services at Massachusetts General Hospital, was awarded the 2019 Dean Rita P. Kelleher Award from the Connell School. Alumni, faculty, and friends attended the presentation, after which Washington joined Joy Moore ’81, Hon. ’10, Boston College’s interim vice president for student affairs, to discuss Washington’s leadership addressing diversity and inclusion in health care.

Students in Population Health volunteer at Rosieʼs Place Photograph: Courtesy Donna Cullinan

In memory Judith Surveyer Mitiguy ’65, of Warwick, RI, died in December at age 74.

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The Influencers Nurses reducing the rash of unnecessary C-sections by Timothy Gower

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decade ago, Joyce K. Edmonds began to explore what has become a growing source of trepidation in the United States and around the globe. While Cesarean sections

account for nearly one in three births in the United States each year, reams of evidence show that, all too often, the procedure is medically unnecessary.

Edmonds, like most experts in maternal health, was familiar with the disproportionate number of C-sections (as the procedure is most commonly called) performed each year— and the dangers that they may pose. But as she surveyed her subject, she Joyce Edmonds also discovered a curious Photograph: Caitlin Cunningham gap in the research. “There wasn’t a lot of scientific literature on the impact nurses have” on whether or when babies should be delivered vaginally or through a C-section, says Edmonds, an associate professor in the Connell School of Nursing. She found the lack of information puzzling. C-sections, after all, are the most common major surgery performed in the United States, according to the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Nurses, who frequently bring years of experience to the labor and delivery room, are key players in every stage of childbirth and yet their role in the decision-making process for C-sections is virtually unknown. “Nurses spend more time at the bedside than any other clinician, including doctors and midwives,” notes Edmonds. They monitor mother and infant’s vital signs, time contractions, coach mothers on breathing, and perform other essential roles. Nurses know that honing skills—such as coaching women on position changes and

breathing and simply staying close to bedside during labor—leads to fewer C-sections. Edmonds’s ultimate goal is to catalog these behaviors, which can be observed and quantified, then modeled by and for other nurses. She is working on this with Neel Shah, M.D., an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Harvard Medical School, obstetrician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and director of Delivery Decisions at Ariadne Labs, a joint venture of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The two are coinvestigators in “Defining the Role of Nurses in Inf luencing the Likelihood of Getting a C-section,” a study that aims to develop a method of tracking the behaviors and practices of individual nurses to birth and delivery outcomes. The study is supported by a $120,000 grant from the Cambridge-based Rx Foundation— a nonprofit that funds projects focused on improving health care quality and access. According to Shah, while lifesaving in some cases, two-thirds of C-sections are not only nonessential, they expose many

Nurses know that honing skills—such as coaching women on position changes and breathing and simply staying close to bedside during labor— leads to fewer C-sections.

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C-SECTIONS & RISK

women who could safely deliver babies vaginally to life-threatening complications such as hemorrhage, sepsis, or permanent injury to an organ (for instance, the bowel or bladder). “The majority of C-sections don’t need to happen,” he says. But better understanding of the decision-making process behind C-sections could lead to a better understanding of which patients would most benefit from the procedure.

Compared to a woman who delivers a baby vaginally, a woman who has a first C-section is: ▶

3 TIMES more likely to need a blood transfusion

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8 TIMES more likely to suffer a ruptured uterus

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5.5 TIMES more likely to require an unplanned hysterectomy

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6.5 TIMES more likely to end up in the intensive care unit

Source: National Center for Health Statistics

At this point, such information is rarely captured in electronic health records (EHRs), the go-to source for scientists studying associations between clinical practices and patient outcomes. Were it available, Edmonds and Shah say, they could identify nurses whose patients have low rates of C-sections. Then, in a follow-up investigation, they could study these clinicians’ methods. ▶▶▶▶▶ In a C-section, a baby is delivered through incisions made in the mother’s abdomen and uterus. Some C-sections are medically necessary—when a fetus is very large, for example, or if it is in the breech (feet or buttocks first)

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position. An emergency C-section may be required if the fetus isn’t receiving adequate oxygen or is otherwise endangered. But like any form of surgery, even the most routine C-sections carry risks. A large 2015 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that women who had a first C-section were significantly more likely to suffer potentially serious complications and require treatment in the intensive care unit. (See sidebar.) Moreover, once a woman has undergone a C-section, doctors frequently recommend that subsequent births be performed the same way, owing to a rare risk of uterine rupture in women with uterine scars who deliver vaginally. Shah’s research has also shown that women who have C-sections and later require hysterectomies have an increased risk for complications. In 2015, the World Health Organization published a statement on C-section rates, noting that the procedure is necessary to protect maternal and infant lives in only about 10 percent of births within a population—higher rates confer no additional benefit. Yet the rate was more than three times as high—31.9 percent—in the United States in 2016, according to the CDC. The high rate isn’t due to consumer requests or preference; a tiny minority of pregnant women, no more than 2.5 percent and perhaps significantly fewer, ask their doctors to perform C-sections, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Other oft-cited explanations, such as high rates of obesity in the US, don’t adequately explain the prevalence either, says Shah. Economics, on the other hand, certainly appears to play a leading role. Studies indicate that C-section rates for low-risk pregnancies vary up to tenfold from one hospital to another. Obstetricians, Edmonds notes, are allowed considerable discretion in how to respond when a vaginal delivery proceeds slowly. ▶▶▶▶▶ Edmonds met Shah at a medical meeting in 2015. “I had been told by several people that I needed to connect with him—that there was a lot of similarity in our work,” recalls Edmonds. Shah has found working with Edmonds to be a natural fit. “Joyce is brilliant and relentless,” he says.

C-section rates for low-risk pregnancies vary up to tenfold from one hospital to another.

A mother seeing her newborn baby for the first time after delivery by Cesarean section Photograph: ©Emilia Whitbread/Alamy Stock Photo

In 2017, the two led a study showing that the likelihood that a woman with a low-risk pregnancy undergoes a C-section varies nearly threefold, depending on which nurse attends her delivery. To obtain data for the study, which was conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital and published in Journal of Obstetric, Gynecological & Neonatal Nursing (JOGNN), Edmonds worked with the hospital’s information technology department to create a system for linking nurses to births. Shah was surprised to learn that C-section rates among nurses’ patients could vary so much. But Edmonds says the research simply quantifies what’s well known on labor f loors. “Some nurses are better at facilitating vaginal delivery than others,” she said. Certain labor-f loor nurses are especially skilled at coaching women to use birthing positions that ease the baby’s descent, for example. Or they’re better able to manage expectations about pain, helping a woman to endure long labor. Another key factor, says Edmonds, is “how a nurse communicates with the physician to allow the patient more time to labor.” Knowing which of these skills and practices are associated with fewer C-sections could help reduce unnecessary use

of the intervention. But Edmonds and Shah first need to replicate and expand the findings of their JOGNN paper to demonstrate that it’s possible to accurately identify nurses with low C-section rates. “To do that, we need data,” says Edmonds. As it turns out, they have “hit a gold mine,” she says. A Seattle-based organization called the Obstetrics Clinical Outcomes Assessment Program (OB COAP) provided the researchers with three years’ worth of records linking every nurse who cared for a woman having a baby, and the method of delivery, at 10 hospitals in Washington State. (Similar data from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles will be included in the study too.) If this study, slated for completion this October, confirms that it is possible to identify nurses with low C-section rates, Edmonds hopes to use the new tool to pick out these skilled clinicians at several teaching hospitals, then observe and interview them. This data could form the basis of training programs for nurses aimed at reducing C-section rates. “Ultimately,” says Edmonds, “we want to create an evidence-based profile of the most effective practices of the labor-and-delivery nurse.” ▪

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Ten Years of KILN: A Retrospective The Connell School’s Keys to Inclusive Leadership in Nursing (KILN) program celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2019. This singular program’s goal is to reduce health care disparities by educating and encouraging students to become nurse leaders who are capable of caring for patients and leading efforts to improve health care in underserved communities. Frequently, KILN scholars are students of limited financial means and may be from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in professional nursing. They are recruited and nurtured with tutoring, mentoring, stipends, networking opportunities, and other vital resources that help prepare them to work with increasingly diverse patient populations.

KILN 10 “We began KILN to address a need for greater numbers of nurses, especially nurse leaders, from underrepresented and underresourced groups. It’s vital that we all see ourselves in our nursing professionals.”

— KILN founder Catherine Read, associate professor

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By the numbers 25

KILN undergraduates at the program’s

launch in 2009 (7 have since earned master’s degrees and 3 are enrolled in Ph.D. programs)

158

Support Through the years, KILN has been funded by the Connell School, a federal Health Resources and Services Administration grant, the Price Family Foundation, and the Coca-Cola Foundation.

KILN scholars have participated

since the program’s inception

50%

of KILN undergraduates and

alumni are first-generation college students

76%

Languages spoken by KILN scholars

of current KILN undergraduates

qualified for Boston College’s Montserrat

Albanian

Polish

program, which aids those with the highest level

Cantonese

Portuguese

English

Spanish

French Creole

Tagalog

College’s prestigious Martin Luther King Jr.

Korean

Vietnamese

Memorial Scholarship

Mandarin

of financial need

KILN scholars have received Boston

Loic Assobmo ’15, M.S. ’17 Loic Assobmo came to Boston College with firsthand understanding of health disparities, which he had experienced in his native Cameroon. With the help of mentors and a BC grant, Assobmo founded Global Enterprise for Medical Advancement, a nonprofit organization dedicated to drawing attention to health, disease, sickness, and suffering on the African continent, and he helped launch a national public health campaign in Cameroon. Today, Assobmo is an adult gerontologic nurse practitioner in Chicopee, Mass. He just published a children’s book about a male nurse practitioner, The Adventures of Noah the Nurse Practitioner.

Cover of Assobmo’s book, first published in 2018 Courtesy: Loic Assobmo

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Leadership spotlight Morine Cebert ’12

Julie Dunne, M.S. ’15, Ph.D. ’19

Ph.D. candidate, Duke University School of Nursing

Clinical instructor, Connell School of Nursing

Nursing liaison, Duke University Black Graduate and Professional Students Association

Hana Chung ’17 Registered nurse, McLean Hospital

Andrea Lopez ’14 Past president, National Association of Hispanic Nurses, Massachusetts chapter

Colleen McGauley ’15, M.S. ’19 Registered nurse, Massachusetts General Hospital, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Sabianca Delva ’12 Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Recipient, National Institutes of Health’s 2018 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research

Recipient, Massachusetts General Hospital’s Stephanie M. Macaluso, RN, Excellence in Clinical Practice Award

Chenille Morrison ’14 Registered nurse, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit

Laura Mata López ’16, M.S. ’17 An immigrant from Costa Rica who arrived in the United States at age 12, Laura Mata López felt isolated and academically challenged after her first year at Boston College. She considered dropping out, but KILN faculty mentors convinced her to try the program for a year. The result? She stayed at BC, volunteering at a women’s homeless shelter, working in rural clinics in Ecuador and Nicaragua, and completing a research fellowship. Today, López is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in the underserved area of San Pablo, California. “I wake up every day knowing that I make a great impact in my community,” she says.

Laura Mata López in Ecuador Photograph courtesy: KILN Program/Laura Mata López

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Welcoming our new faculty By Zachary Jason Photographs: Peter Julian

This winter, two distinguished researchers with a combined 66 years of teaching experience joined the Connell School faculty as associate professors: alumna Elizabeth Howard, who takes a data-driven and strengths-based approach to studying the aging population, and Corrine Jurgens, an expert on biobehavioral factors of cardiovascular health.

Elizabeth Howard Associate Professor Elizabeth Howard, M.S. ’79, Ph.D. ’86, RN, ACNP, ANP-BC, FAAN, returns to her alma mater after spending the last 30 years four miles away, as an associate professor at Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences. A fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the InterRAI Network in Integrated Care and Aging, and a distinguished scholar and fellow of the National Academies of Practice, Howard uses data science to develop comprehensive assessments of “vulnerable, underserved older adults in the US and abroad.” She found a calling in older adult care after witnessing the divergent experiences of her grandmother and great-aunt, identical twins. “They had immigrated to the US as teenagers from Poland,” says Howard. “One lived to be 95, the other 96. But my great-aunt never lost her cognitive abilities, and my grandmother did. They lived very different lives, and they showed that it isn’t just genetics but what you’re exposed to that can inf luence how you age.” Howard has developed a “healthy aging” intervention that “encourages the geriatric population to set personal goals. ‘What do you value in this phase of your life?’ Typically, when we see older adults in practice, we find out what’s wrong with them. This intervention follows with some regular coaching to see how they’re fulfilling these opportunities [and] strategizing with them on how they may help better meet their goals.” Since 1995, Howard has worked as an acute care nurse practitioner in Harvard Vanguard Medical Group’s urgent care department in Wellesley. She’s also an adjunct scientist at Hebrew SeniorLife’s Marcus Institute for Aging Research and a research consultant for Israel’s Ministry of Health. During the spring semester, she cotaught Primary Care of Adults and Older Adults Theory II with Associate Professor Jane Flanagan.

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Corrine Jurgens Associate Professor Corrine Jurgens, Ph.D., RN, ANP-BC, FAHA, FHSFA, FAAN, arrives at the Connell School after 25 years at New York’s Stony Brook University, where she was most recently an associate professor and director of cardiovascular nursing research. The Cape Cod native has served as a nurse in critical, intensive, and emergency departments. But it was during her stint in the 1980s as a coronary care nurse at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital on Long Island that she developed an interest in what would become her research focus: biobehavioral factors underpinning symptom perception among patients with heart failure. “I was fascinated,” she says, “that although patients would be acutely short of breath, when I asked how they were doing, between gasps they would say, ‘Fine.’” In studies published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Research in Nursing & Health, and elsewhere, Jurgens has found that “many patients have trouble monitoring their symptoms” for several reasons. Those with heart failure “progressively slow down, and tend not to exert themselves enough to realize they’re short of breath,” she explained. Also, “if you don’t have anxiety about your symptoms, if you don’t have the emotional component, you’re less apt to register them.” With funding from the American Heart Association, Jurgens developed and psychometrically tested an instrument that measures signs and symptoms of heart failure. It has been used in several investigations and has been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Chinese. Jurgens earned an M.S. from Stony Brook and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and did her postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania. At Stony Brook, she also supervised more than 30 doctoral dissertations, and was “devoted to coaching a diverse range of economically disadvantaged undergraduates, to successfully bring them into the nursing profession on equal footing.” She plans to do the same at Boston College. During the spring semester, Jurgens taught Secondary Data Analysis to Ph.D. students.

research focus Biobehavioral factors underpinning symptom perception among patients with heart failure

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Designed FOR Superior

C ARE The Doctor of Nursing Practice debuts By Alicia Potter

As it gears up to launch its Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program this fall, the Connell School has released details of the new curriculum, which expands the nursing school’s clinical coursework and introduces requirements in epidemiology, organizational leadership, and health care systems, reports Susan Kelly-Weeder, associate dean for graduate programs at Connell. The launch of a DNP program at Boston College aligns with national efforts among nursing schools and professional organizations to prepare nurses with the terminal practice degree in nursing. The new doctoral curriculum will educate advanced practice nurses to be leaders in primary care and effectively advance the care of patient populations. Graduates of the Connell School’s DNP program will have “a deeper understanding” of today’s complex health care system and “will be better equipped to manage acute and chronic illness across the continuum of care,” according to Kelly-Weeder.

DEGREE TRACKS Students enrolled in the DNP program can take one of four tracks—depending on their academic background—toward fulfilling degree requirements. The Connell School has announced details of a two-year post-master’s for practicing nurse practitioners and a three- to four-year postbaccalaureate for nurses who hold a current RN license. Individual plans of study will vary depending on whether a student is pursuing a full-time or part-time curriculum. Details of course sequences for two other tracks—the direct entry to DNP for students who hold degrees in fields other

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than nursing and the RN to DNP for registered nurses without a bachelor’s degree—are forthcoming. (In the future, CSON plans to offer a path to a DNP in nurse anesthesia as well.)

CLINICAL REQUIREMENTS DNP students will choose one of six specializations: adultgerontology primary care, family primary care, nurse anesthesia, pediatric primary care, psychiatric/mental health, and women’s health. After completing courses in advanced pathophysiology, pharmacology, and health assessment, all doctoral students entering primary care specialties will be required to take Bridge to Primary Care Practice, a new course that covers communication and assessment skills, common illnesses across the life span, and ordering and interpreting routine diagnostic tests. The course’s combination of classroom learning, laboratory simulation, and clinical site visits is designed to better prepare students for coursework and practice in the DNP program’s primary care specialties. (This course will not be required for students specializing in psychiatric/mental health and nurse anesthesia.) Additional course requirements will focus on preparing students for leadership roles on interdisciplinary teams and in different health care spheres, including policy and administration.

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Postbaccalaureate students will complete a minimum of 1,000 clinical hours—double the number required by the Connell School’s master’s in nursing program. (Post-master’s students will fulfill at least 250 clinical hours associated with the DNP project.)

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT DNP students will also complete two new courses in evidencebased practice. While traditional nursing Ph.D. programs, including Boston College’s, teach qualitative and quantitative methods used in generating research, DNP students will learn to improve practice, in part by evaluating existing studies and interventions.

Students will enter their final year of the DNP program with the knowledge and expertise to conduct a “practice change project” that unfolds over two seminar-style courses, says Kelly-Weeder. Doctoral degree candidates will work in small groups, in collaboration with faculty and Connell School clinical partners, to develop evidence-based solutions to problems affecting health care quality and delivery for a particular population. Throughout the program, says Kelly-Weeder, the DNP curriculum will emphasize clinical rigor, ethical leadership, and social responsibility—qualities she believes will prepare students “to meet the needs of their patients and the demands of the health care system.” ▪

FOR THOSE WITH A BACCALAUREATE DEGREE IN NURSING (FULL-TIME PROGRAM) SUMMER

FALL

SPRING

Population Health Principles, Program Planning and Evaluation

Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice

Nursing Leadership in Complex Health Care Settings

Health Care Quality Management

Advanced Physiology and Pathophysiology Across the Lifespan

Elective or specialty content

Health Care Information Technology Management

Advanced Health/Physical Assessment Across the Lifespan

Bridge to Primary Care

Pharmacotherapeutics in Advanced Practice Nursing

Health Care Policy for Nursing Leaders

Methods of Advanced Scholarly Inquiry

Epidemiology

Foundations of Evidence-Based Advanced Nursing Practice

Elective or specialty content

Clinical Specialty 1

Clinical Specialty 2

Clinical Specialty 3

Role of Advanced Practice Nurses

Elective or specialty content

DNP Project Seminar 1

DNP Project Seminar 2

YEAR 1

YEAR 2

YEAR 3

FOR NURSE PRACTITIONERS WITH MASTER’S DEGREES IN NURSING (FULL-TIME PROGRAM) SUMMER YEAR 1

YEAR 2

FALL

SPRING

Population Health Principles, Program Planning and Evaluation

Health Care Quality Management

Nursing Leadership in Complex Health Care Settings

Health Care Information Technology Management

Epidemiology

Methods of Advanced Scholarly Inquiry

Foundations of Evidence-Based Advanced Nursing Practice

Health Care Policy for Nursing Leaders

Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice

Elective

DNP Project Seminar 1

DNP Project Seminar 2

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faculty publications Nadia Abuelezam Abuelezam, N., El-Sayed, A. M., & Galea, S. (2018). The Health of Arab Americans in the United States: An Updated Comprehensive Literature Review. Frontiers in Public Health, 6, 262. DOI: 10.3389%Fpubh.2018.00262 Abuelezam, N., McCormick, A., Surface, E., Fussell, T., Freedberg, K., Lipsitch, M., & Seage, G. (2019). Modelling the Epidemiologic Impact of Achieving UNAIDS Fast-track 90-90-90 and 95-95-95 Targets in South Africa. Epidemiology and Infection, 147, E122. DOI: 10.1017/ S0950268818003497

Ann Wolbert Burgess Caretta, C., Burgess, A. W., Dowdell, E. B., & Caldwell, B. (2018). Adolescent Suicide Cases: Toxicology Reports and Prescription Drugs. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 14(7), 552–558. DOI: 10.1016/j.nurpra.2018.05.010 Schaarf, S., LaMode, R., Burgess, A. W., Koss, M., Lopez, E., & Prentky, R. (2018). Student Views on Campus Sexual Assault. Journal of American College Health. Online publication. DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2018.1500476

Susan DeSanto-Madeya DeSanto-Madeya, S. A., Willis, D., McLaughlin, J., & Boslet, A. (2019). Healing Experience for Family Caregivers After an Intensive Care Unit Death. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2018-001561

Andrew Dwyer Dwyer, A. A., & Quinton, R. (2019). Anatomy and Physiology of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Gonadal (HPG) Axis. In S. Llahana, C. Follin, C. Yedinak, & A. Grossman (Eds.), Advanced Practice in Endocrinology Nursing (pp. 839–852). New York, NY: Springer. Dwyer, A. A., & Quinton, R. (2019). Classification of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Gonadal (HPG) Axis Endocrine Disorders. In S. Llahana, C. Follin, C. Yedinak, & A. Grossman (Eds.), Advanced Practice in Endocrinology Nursing (pp. 853–870). New York, NY: Springer. Dwyer, A. A., & Hayes, F. J. (2019). Evaluation of Endocrine Disorders of the HypothalamicPituitary-Gonadal (HPG) Axis. In S. Llahana, C. Follin, C. Yedinak, & A. Grossman (Eds.), Advanced Practice in Endocrinology Nursing (pp. 871–883). New York, NY: Springer. Dwyer, A. A., Williamson, E., Au, M. G., & Jayasena, C. (2019). Spermatogenesis and Assisted Fertility Treatment. In S. Llahana, C. Follin, C. Yedinak, & A. Grossman (Eds.), Advanced Practice in Endocrinology Nursing (pp. 903–923). New York, NY: Springer.

Llahana, S., Dwyer, A. A., & Yedinak, C. (2019). Conceptualization, Definition and Competencies of Advanced Practice Nursing with a Focus on Endocrinology. In S. Llahana, C. Follin, C. Yedinak, & A. Grossman (Eds.), Advanced Practice in Endocrinology Nursing (pp. 1281–1302). New York, NY: Springer. Antoniu, M. C., Bouthors, T., Xu, C., Phan-Hug, F., Elowe-Gruau, E., Stoppa-Vaucher, S., … Hauschild, M. (2019). A Novel CHD7 Mutation in an Adolescent Presenting with Growth and Pubertal Delay. Annals of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism, 24(1), 49–54. DOI: 10.6065/ apem.2019.24.1.49 Ofori, E. K., Conde Alonso, S., Correas-Gomez, L., Carnero, E. A., Zwygart, K., Hugues, H., … Amati, F. (2019). Thigh and Abdominal Adipose Tissue Depot Associations with Testosterone Levels in Postmenopausal Females. Clinical Endocrinology, 90(3), 433–439. DOI: 10.1111/cen.13921 Serena, A., Dwyer, A. A., Peters, S., & Eicher, M. (2018). Acceptance of the Advanced Practice Nurse in Lung Cancer Role by Healthcare Professionals and Patients: A Qualitative Explor ation. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 50(5), 540– 548. DOI: 10.1111/jnu.12411 Helou, N., Dwyer, A., Shaha, M., & Zanchi, A. (2018). Erratum to: Multidisciplinary Management of Diabetic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 16(9), 1902. DOI: 10.11124/JBISRIR-2017-003886 Prior, M., Stewart, J., McEleny, K., Dwyer, A. A., & Quinton, R. (2018). Fertility Induction in Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadal Men. Clinical Endocrinology, 89(6), 712–718. DOI: 10.1111/ cen.13850

Laura Dzurec Mauk, K., Almauhy, D., Barks, L., Black, T., Camica, M., Campbell, G., Dzurec, L., Green, T., Neal-Boylan, L., & Pierce, L. (2019). Nurse Author: Who, Me? Yes, You! Rehabilitation Nursing Journal, 44(2), 104–114. DOI: 10.1097/ rnj.0000000000000214

Flanagan, J. M. (2019). Thank You to Our Peer Reviewers. International Journal of Nursing Knowledge, 30(1), 3. DOI: 10.1111/2047-3095.12236 Flanagan, J. M. (2018). Nursology—A Site by Nurses, for Nurses. International Journal of Nursing Knowledge 29(4), 209. DOI: 10.1111/20473095.12227 Flanagan, J. M. (2018). Scholarly Papers for a Course Versus Those Submitted for Publication. International Journal of Nursing Knowledge 29(3), 145. DOI: 10.1111/2047-3095.12221

Susan Gennaro Gennaro, S. (2019). Choosing the Right Journal for Your Manuscript. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 51(2), 127–128. DOI 10.1111/jnu.12476

Corrine Jurgens Lee, C. S., Denfeld, Q. E., Aouizerat, B. E., Jurgens, C. Y., Chien, C. V., Aarons, E., … Mudd, J. O. (2018). Comparative Symptom Biochemistry between Moderate and Advanced Heart Failure. Heart & Lung, 47(6), 565–575. DOI: 10.1016/j. hrtlng.2018.09.002 Lee, C. S., Mudd, J. O., Lyons, K. S., Denfeld, Q. E., Jurgens, C. Y., Aouizerat, B. E., … Grady, K. L. (2019). Heart Failure Symptom Biology in Response to Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 34(2), 174–182. DOI: 10.1097/ JCN.0000000000000552.

Carina Katigbak Kwan, R. Y. C., Cheung, D. S. K., Lo, S. K. L., Ho, L. Y. W., Katigbak, C., Chao, Y.-Y. Y., & Liu, J. Y. W. (2019). Frailty and Its Association with the Mediterranean Diet, Life-space, and Social Participation in Community-dwelling Older People. Geriatric Nursing. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2018.12.011 Katigbak, C., Maglalang, D., Nguyen, T. H., Wang, M., & Lo, C. L. (2019). Older Chinese Americans’ Perspectives on Physical Activity: A Mixed Methods Study. Journal of Applied Gerontology. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1177/0733464819835443

Kjerulff, K. H., Attanasio, L. B., Edmonds, J. K., & Repke, J. T. (2019). Mode of Delivery Preference Among Pregnant Nulliparous Women. Journal of Women’s Health. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2018.6989

Katigbak, C., Maglalang, D., Chao, Y.-Y., Au, H., Liang, W., & Zuo, S. (2018). Cultural Perspectives on Tobacco Use and Cessation among Chinese American Immigrants: A Community-Engaged Qualitative Study. Journal of Transcultural Nursing. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1177/1043659618817583

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Rivard, C., Philpotts, L. L., Flanagan, J. M., & Looby, S. E. (2019). Health Characteristics Associated with Hot Flashes in Women with HIV During Menopause: An Integrative Review. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 30(1), 87–97. DOI: 10.1097/JNC.0000000000000024

Kelly-Weeder, S., & Wolfe, B. E. (2018). Extreme Weight Loss Behaviors in Racially Diverse Urban Adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 64(2), 276–278. DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.08.031

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Christopher Lee Song, M., Lee, C. S., Lyons, K. S., Stoyles, S., & Winters-Stone, K. M. (2018). Assessing the Feasibility of Parent Participation in a Commercial Weight Loss Program to Improve Child Body Mass Index and Weight-related Health Behaviors. SAGE Open Medicine, 6, 1–12. DOI: 10.1177/2050312118801220 Tharp, M. D., Bernstein, J. A., Kavati, A., Ortiz, B., MacDonald, K., Denhaerynck, K., Abraham, I., & Lee, C. S. (2018). Benefits and Harms of Omalizumab Treatment in Adolescent and Adult Patients with Chronic Idiopathic (Spontaneous) Urticaria: A Meta-analysis of “Real-world” Evidence. JAMA Dermatology, 155(1), 29–38. DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2018.3447 Lee, C. S., Denfeld, Q. E., Aouizerat, B. E., Jurgens, C. Y., Chien, C. V., Aarons, E., … Mudd, J. O. (2018). Comparative Symptom Biochemistry between Moderate and Advanced Heart Failure. Heart & Lung, 47(6), 565–575. DOI: 10.1016/j. hrtlng.2018.09.002 Denfeld, Q. E., Mudd, J. O., Hasan, W., Gelow, J. M., Hiatt, S. O., Winters-Stone, K., & Lee, C. S. (2018). Exploring the Relationship between β-adrenergic Receptor Kinase-1 and Physical Symptoms in Heart Failure. Heart & Lung, 47(4), 281–284. DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2018.05.003 Lee, C. S., Mudd, J. O., Lyons, K. S., Denfeld, Q. E., Jurgens, C. Y., Aouizerat, B. E., … Grady, K. L. (2019). Heart Failure Symptom Biology in Response to Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 34(2), 174–182. DOI: 10.1097/ JCN.0000000000000552 Lee, C. S., & Pressler, S. J. (2018). Heart Failure Symptom Science: Is Adrenergic Dysregulation a Missing Link? Heart & Lung, 47(4), 280. DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2018.06.002 Lee, C. S., Gelow, J. M., Chien, C. V., Hiatt, S. O., Bidwell, J. T., Denfeld, Q. E., Grady, K. L., & Mudd, J. O. (2018). Implant Strategy-Specific Changes in Symptoms in Response to Left Ventricular Assist Devices. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 33(2), 144–151. DOI: 10.1097/JCN.0000000000000430 Riegel, B., Jaarsma, T., Lee, C. S., & Strömberg, A. (2018). Integrating Symptoms into the Middlerange Theory of Self-care of Chronic Illness. Advances in Nursing Science. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1097/ ANS.0000000000000237 Rising, M. L., Hassouneh, D. S., Lutz, K. F., Lee, C., & Berry, P. (2018). Integrative Review of the Literature on Hispanics and Hospice. American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine Care, 35(3), 542–554. DOI: 10.1177/1049909117730555

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Miller, L. M., Lee, C. S., Whitlatch, C. J., & Lyons, K. S. (2018). Involvement of Hospitalized Persons with Dementia in Everyday Decisions: A Dyadic Study. The Gerontologist, 58(4), 644–653. DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnw265 Stamp, K. D., Prasun, M., Lee, C. S., Jaarsma, T., Piano, M. R., & Albert, N. M. (2018). Nursing Research in Heart Failure Care: A Position Statement of the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN). Heart & Lung, 47(2), 169–175. DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2018.01.003 Auld, J. P., Mudd, J. O., Gelow, J. M., Lyons, K. S., Hiatt, S. O., & Lee, C. (2018). Patterns of Heart Failure Symptoms Are Associated with Self-care Behaviors over 6 Months. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 17(6), 543–551. DOI: 10.1177/1474515118759074 Denfeld, Q. E., & Lee, C. S. (2018). The Crossroads of Frailty and Heart Failure: What More Can We Learn? Journal of Cardiac Failure, 24(11), 733–734. DOI: 10.1016/j. cardfail.2018.10.001 Ross, A. M., Lee, C. S., Lutsep, H., & Clark, W. M. (2018). The Influence of β-Adrenergic Receptor Kinase-1 on Stroke-induced Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 33(4), E3–E10. DOI: 10.1097/JCN.0000000000000481. Lyons, K. S., Gelow, J. M., Hiatt, S. O., Mudd, J. O., Auld, J., Chien, C. V., & Lee, C. S. (2018). The Role of Dyadic Confidence on Engagement in Heart Failure Care Behaviors. The Gerontologist, 58(4), 635–643. DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnx030

Karen Lyons Song, M., Lee, C. S., Lyons, K. S., Stoyles, S., & Winters-Stone, K. M. (2018). Assessing the Feasibility of Parent Participation in a Commercial Weight Loss Program to Improve Child Body Mass Index and Weight-related Health Behaviors. SAGE Open Medicine, 6, 1–12. DOI: 10.1177/2050312118801220 Poole, K., Ogden, J., Gasson, S., Lemanska, A., Archer, F., Griffin, B., Saxton, J., Lyons, K., & Faithfull, S. (2019). Creating a Teachable Moment in Community Pharmacy for Men with Prostate Cancer: A Qualitative Study of Lifestyle Changes. Psycho-Oncology, 28, 593–599. DOI: 10.1002/ pon.4983 Lee, C. S., Mudd, J. O., Lyons, K. S., Denfeld, Q. E., Jurgens, C. Y., Aouizerat, B. E., … Grady, K. L. (2019). Heart Failure Symptom Biology in Response to Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 34(2), 174–182. DOI: 10.1097/ JCN.0000000000000552.

Lyons, K. S., Hiatt, S. O., Gelow, J. M., Auld, J. A., Mudd, J. O., Chien, C. V., & Lee, C. (2018). Depressive Symptoms in Couples Living with Heart Failure: The Role of Congruent Engagement in Heart Failure Management. Aging & Mental Health, 22(12), 1585–1591. DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2017.1381945 Winters-Stone, K., Kenfield, S. A., Blarigan, E. L., Moe, E. L., Ramsdill, J. W., Daniel, K., … Lyons, K. S., Beer, T. M., Broering, J. M., Carroll, P. R., & Chan, J. M. (2018). Effect of Increasing Levels of Web-based Behavioral Support on Changes in Physical Activity, Diet, and Symptoms in Men with Prostate Cancer: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR: Research Protocols, 7(11), e11257. DOI: 10.2196/11257 Bonds, K., & Lyons, K. S. (2018). Formal Service Use by African American Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers: An Integrative Review. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 44(6), 33–39. DOI: 10.3928/00989134-20180509-06 Miller, L. M., Whitlatch, C. J., Lee, C., & Lyons, K. S. (2018). Incongruent Perceptions of the Care Values of Hospitalized Persons with Dementia: A Pilot Study of Patient-Family Caregiver Dyads. Aging & Mental Health, 22(4), 489–496. DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2017.1280766 Miller, L. M., Lee, C. S., Whitlatch, C. J., & Lyons, K. S. (2018). Involvement of Hospitalized Persons with Dementia in Everyday Decisions: A Dyadic Study. The Gerontologist, 58(4), 644–653. DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnw265 Bidwell, J. T., Lyons, K. S., Mudd, J. O., Grady, K. L., Gelow, J. M., Hiatt, S. O., … Lee, C. (2018). Patient and Caregiver Determinants of Patient Quality of Life and Caregiver Strain in Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy. Journal of the American Heart Association, 7(6), e008080. DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.117.008080 Gorman, J. R., Standridge, D., Lyons, K. S., Elliott, D. L., Winters-Stone, K., Julian, A. K., Weprin, J., Storksdieck, M., & Hayes-Lattin, B. (2018). Patient-centered Communication between Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors and Their Healthcare Providers: Identifying Research Gaps with a Scoping Review. Patient Education and Counseling, 101(2), 185–194. DOI: 10.1016/j. pec.2017.08.020 Auld, J. P., Mudd, J. O., Gelow, J. M., Lyons, K. S., Hiatt, S. O., & Lee, C. (2018). Patterns of Heart Failure Symptoms Are Associated with Self-care Behaviors over 6 Months. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 17(6), 543–551. DOI: 10.1177/1474515118759074 Lyons, K. S., Gelow, J. M., Hiatt, S. O., Mudd, J. O., Auld, J., Chien, C. V., & Lee, C. S. (2018). The Role of Dyadic Confidence on Engagement in Heart Failure Care Behaviors. The Gerontologist, 58(4), 635–643. DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnx030

Huang, E. R., Jones, K. D., Bennett, R. M., Hall, G. C. N., & Lyons, K. S. (2018). The Role of Spousal Relationships in Fibromyalgia Patients’ Quality of Life. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 23(8), 987– 995. DOI: 10.1080/13548506.2018.1444183 Lyons, K. S., & Lee, C. S. (2018). The Theory of Dyadic Illness Management. Journal of Family Nursing, 24(1), 8–28. DOI: 10.1177/1074840717745669

Ellen Mahoney Mahoney, E. K., Oh, G., Morano, C., Mahoney, K. J., & DeVellis, A. (2019). The Tasks and Characteristics of Supportive Support Brokers. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 62(2), 216– 235. DOI: 10.1080/01634372.2018.1561585

Tam Nguyen Katigbak, C., Maglalang, D., Nguyen, T. H., Wang, M., & Lo, C. L. (2019). Older Chinese Americans’ Perspectives on Physical Activity: A Mixed Methods Study. Journal of Applied Gerontology. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1177/0733464819835443 Kim, M. T., Kim, K. B., Nguyen, T. H., Ko, J., Zabora, J., Jacobs, E., & Levine, D. (2019). Motivating People to Sustain Healthy Lifestyles Using Persuasive Technology: A Pilot Study of Korean Americans with Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes. Patient Education and Counseling, 102(4), 709–717. DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2018.10.021

Britt Pados Pados, B. F. (2019). Physiology of Stress and Use of Skin-to-Skin Care as a Stress-Reducing Intervention in the NICU. Nursing for Women’s Health, 23(1), 59–70. DOI: 10.1016/j. nwh.2018.11.002 Park, J., Thoyre, S. M., Pados, B. F., & Gregas, M. (2019). Symptoms of Feeding Problems in Preterm-born Children at 6 Months to 7 Years Old. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 68(3), 416–421. DOI: 10.1097/ MPG.0000000000002229 Pados, B. F. (2019). Symptoms of Problematic Feeding in Children with CHD Compared to Healthy Peers. Cardiology in the Young, 29(2), 152– 161. DOI: 10.1017/S1047951118001981 Pados, B. F., & Hess, F. (2019). Systematic Review of the Effects of Skin-to-Skin Care on Short-Term Physiologic Stress Outcomes in Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Advances in Neonatal Care. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1097/ANC.0000000000000596 Pados, B. F., Park, J., & Thoyre, S. M. (2019). Neonatal Eating Assessment Tool—BottleFeeding: Norm-Reference Values for Infants Less Than 7 Months Old. Clinical Pediatrics. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1177/0009922819839234

Park, J., McComish, C., Pados, B. F., Estrem, H., & Thoyre, S. (2018). Changes in Symptoms of Problematic Eating Over Six Months in Infants and Young Children. Infants & Young Children, 31(4), 297–309. DOI: 10.1097/ IYC.0000000000000128 Thoyre, S. M., Pados, B. F., Shaker, C., Fuller, K., & Park, J. (2018). Psychometric Properties of the Early Feeding Skills Assessment Tool. Advances in Neonatal Care, 18(5), E13–E23. DOI: 10.1097/ ANC.0000000000000537

Jinhee Park Park, J., Thoyre, S. M., Pados, B. F., & Gregas, M. (2019). Symptoms of Feeding Problems in Preterm-Born Children at 6 Months to 7 Years Old. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 68(3), 416–421. DOI: 10.1097/ MPG.0000000000002229 Pados, B. F., Park, J., & Thoyre, S. M. (2019). Neonatal Eating Assessment Tool—BottleFeeding: Norm-Reference Values for Infants Less Than 7 Months Old. Clinical Pediatrics. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1177/0009922819839234 Park, J., McComish, C., Pados, B. F., Estrem, H., & Thoyre, S. (2018). Changes in Symptoms of Problematic Eating Over Six Months in Infants and Young Children. Infants & Young Children, 31(4), 297–309. DOI: 10.1097/ IYC.0000000000000128 Thoyre, S. M., Pados, B. F., Shaker, C., Fuller, K., & Park, J. (2018). Psychometric Properties of the Early Feeding Skills Assessment Tool. Advances in Neonatal Care, 18(5), E13–E23. DOI: 10.1097/ ANC.0000000000000537

Catherine Read Read, C. Y., Krozy, R. E., & Yarkony, L. K. (2019). Faculty Survey of Service-Learning and Its Impact on Nursing Students. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 9(3), 78–84. DOI: 10.5430/jnep. v9n3p78

Reid Ponte, P. (2018). Graduate Education Options for Baccalaureate-Prepared Nurses. Nursing, 48(7), 16–17. DOI: 10.1097/01. NURSE.0000534104.66025.f6 Goode, C. J., Glassman, K. S., Reid Ponte, P., Krugman, M., & Peterman, T. (2018). Requiring a Nurse Residency for Newly Licensed Nurses. Nursing Outlook, 66(3), 329–332. DOI: 10.1016/j. outlook.2018.04.004

Patricia Tabloski Jones, R. N., Cizginer, S., Pavlech, L., Albuquerque, A., Daiello, L. A., Dharmarajan, K., … for the Better Assessment of Illness (BASIL) Study Group. (2018). Assessment of Instruments for Measurement of Delirium Severity: A Systematic Review. JAMA Internal Medicine, 179(2), 231–239. DOI: 10.1001/ jamainternmed.2018.6975

Judith Vessey DiFazio, R. L., Vessey, J. A., Buchko, O. A., Chetverikov, D. V., Sarkisova, V. A., & Serebrennikova, N. (2018). The Incidence and Outcomes of Nurse Bullying in the Russian Federation. International Nursing Review, 66, 94–103. DOI: 10.1111/inr.12479 Vessey, J. A., Wendt, J., Glynn, D., & McVey, C. (2018). Teaching Patient-Centered Care through the Veterans History Project. Nurse Educator, 43(6), 322–325. DOI: 10.1097/ NNE.0000000000000506 Vessey, J. A., Greenberg, C. S., & Lulloff, A. (2018). Children, Youths and Families Have High-Quality, Affordable, and Accessible Health Care. In C. Betz & M. Krajicek (Eds.), Guidelines for Nursing Excellence in the Care of Children, Youth, and Families, 2nd ed., (pp. 101–112). New York, NY: Springer. Vessey, J. A. (2018). Nurses Must Have Say in Hospital Staffing. Journal of Advanced Nursing Interactive.

Patricia Reid Ponte Adams, J., Mesnik, J., Reid Ponte, P., & Somerville, J. (2018). Lead Like a Nurse: Leadership in Every Healthcare Setting. Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Association. Conlin, G. & Reid Ponte, P. (2019). Managing Time: The Path to High Self-Performance. In B. Cherry & S. R. Jacob (Eds.), Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management, 8th ed. (pp. 436–449). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier. Reid Ponte, P. (2018). Changing Primary Care and Growing Nurse Practitioner Workforce—Key Policy and Organizational Issues: An Interview with Dr. Lusine, Poghosyan. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 48(11), 538–539. DOI: 10.1097/ NNA.0000000000000675

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