Voice magazine by Boston College

Winter 2020

---Associate Professor Ellen Mahoney explores new health delivery services for the chronically ill

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Dear Friends,

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Greetings to the Connell School community as we celebrate the arrival of 2020—Year of the Nurse and Midwife. Designated by the World Health Organization (WHO), the occasion marks the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of nursing as an evidence-based profession. Together with nurses around the world, we will pay tribute to Nightingale’s legacy while recognizing how our profession has grown and evolved into the one we know today.

This issue of Voice is packed with news of our community members’ standout achievements. We are thrilled to report that three of our faculty members—Susan DeSantoMadeya, Holly Fontenot, and Susan Kelly-Weeder—were inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in October. This edition also features the pioneering work of Associate Professor Ellen Mahoney, a veteran practitioner who is finding new ways to ease the lives of people with chronic illness and their family caregivers— a longtime focus of her clinical work and scholarship. We bring you news, too, of a successful collaboration between students in Clinical Assistant Professor Donna Cullinan’s Population Health Practice in the Community course and young adults at the Mattapan Teen Center in Boston. And we introduce you to our four new faculty members, who are educating our future nurses and improving patient care. We wish you a happy new year. Please keep in touch about your life and accomplishments. Best wishes,

editor Maureen Dezell

managing editor Tracy Bienen

art director Diana Parziale

graphic designer Monica DeSalvo

contributor Timothy Gower

photographers Caitlin Cunningham Gary Wayne Gilbert Chris Huang Peter Julian Lee Pellegrini

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4 Clockwise from left: Susan DeSanto-Madeya, Holly Fontenot, and Susan Kelly-Weeder Photographs: Lee Pellegrini

Ellen Mahoney’s research studies how to lighten family caregivers’ load

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Mei Fu, Barry Family/Goldman Sachs Endowed Professor, joins the Connell School Photograph: Chris Huang

7.9 miles

Route between BC and Boston’s Mattapan Teen Center

Winter 2020 news

4 CSON faculty inducted into the American Academy of Nursing. Plus more honors, awards, and new research.

Features

A changemaker for family caregivers Associate Professor Ellen Mahoney pioneers health delivery services for the chronically ill.

10 Removing roadblocks Connell School students mentor and befriend young adults at the Mattapan Teen Center.

achievements

Introducing our new faculty The Connell School welcomes four new professors.

17 Faculty publications

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Faculty

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Connell School faculty Stacey Barone, Stewart Bond, and Julie Dunne were recently promoted to clinical professor, clinical associate professor, and clinical assistant professor, respectively. The American Academy of Nursing (AAN) inducted Clinical Associate Professor Susan DeSanto-Madeya, Associate Professor Holly Fontenot, and Associate Dean for Graduate Programs Susan Kelly-Weeder as fellows at AAN’s annual conference in Washington, DC. Associate Professor Joyce Edmonds was elected chair of the American Public Health Association’s Public Health Nursing Section. BC’s Academic Technology Advisory Board, which supports innovative projects across the disciplines, awarded an exploratory technology grant to CSON Associate Professor Corrine Jurgens and Andrew Hession-Kunz, a Carroll School senior lecturer, for a cross-disciplinary study of heart-rate variability.

The American Cancer Society awarded a four-year Research Scholar Grant to Associate Professor Karen Lyons and her team at Oregon State University, who are studying dyadic intervention for young couples living with cancer to find ways to reduce distress about reproduction and improve their health and quality of life.

The Hillman Innovations in Care Program is supporting Optimizing Nursing Practice to Improve Childbirth Outcomes: An Audit and Feedback Intervention, a study by CSON Associate Professor Joyce Edmonds and Neel Shah, director of Ariadne Labs’ Delivery Decisions Initiative. Their goal is to increase nurses’ understanding of the effects of different practices on childbirth outcomes.

The National Institute of Nursing Research awarded Assistant Professors Britt Pados and Jinhee Park and their team (based at the University of North Carolina) a fiveyear R01 research project grant for their study, Symptom Trajectories in Infants and Toddlers at Risk for Chronic Feeding Problems.

Top: Mother and newborn after delivery

Associate Professor Cathy Read represented the Connell School on the University Education Policy Committee, which approved BC’s new Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Certificate program as well as a minor in Global Public Health and the Common Good. See Program launches. Clinical Associate Professor Patricia Reid Ponte was named to the Beth Israel Lahey Health System Board of Trustees for a three-year term.

Assistant Professor Britt Pados was awarded a Boston College Ignite grant for her pilot study, the Implementation of Standardized Assessment of Feeding in the High-Risk Neonatal Follow-Up Clinic.

Photograph: @Emilia Whitbread/ Alamy Stock Photo

Left: Britt Pados and Jinhee Park Photographs: Lee Pellegrini

Pinnacle Lecture Pioneering Italian nurse leaders Alessandro Stievano and Gennaro Rocco presented the October Pinnacle lecture: How International Collaboration Is Advancing Nursing Research, Practice, and Education.

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Rocco is the steering committee director at the Scientific Research Center of Centro di Eccellenza per la Cultura e la Ricerca Infermieristica. Stievano is a research fellow in nursing at the Centre of Excellence for Nursing Scholarship OPI.

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Program launches Boston College last fall introduced an Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Certificate program for graduate students in the schools of nursing, social work, and theology and ministry. The 12-credit course of study—one of the first of its kind in the US—is designed to provide nurses, social workers, and ministers with the skills and knowledge to care for patients and families living with serious illnesses. CSON Clinical Associate Professor Susan DeSanto-Madeya directs the program’s advisory board and leads its implementation on campus. BC also launched a new interdisciplinary minor in Global Public Health and the Common Good in fall 2019. Faculty from the Connell School, Law School, Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Social Work teach courses in the minor program, which is grounded in epidemiology and emphasizes the moral, ethical, and legal foundations of public health.

Alumni In September, CSON inaugurated a Seacole Scholars Program, an intentional living and learning community comprised of first-year female nursing students of color. The program seeks to learn if— by living, studying, and collaborating together—this community will increase a sense of belonging for minority students. The program was named for Mary Jane Seacole, a nineteenth-century Jamaicanborn nurse and businesswoman whose contributions to nursing were overlooked for many years due to racial bias.

Seniors participate in CSON’s End of Life Simulation Program Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

Kimberly Arouth ’84 was named chief executive officer of Visiting Nurse & Community Care, Inc., a leading nonprofit home care agency in eastern Massachusetts.

Philanthropy Mei R. Fu, a widely respected nurse scientist whose research is focused on cancer-related symptoms and management of chronic illnesses, is the inaugural recipient of the Connell School’s Barry Family/Goldman Sachs Endowed Chair in Nursing. A gift from Boston College Trustee Steven M. Barry ’85 and Tammy J. Barry ’85, M.Ed. ’87, P ’14, ’17, established the position. CSON received a generous donation from MedStar Health in honor of Maureen P. McCausland ’72, M.S. ’77 (right). The gift recognizes McCausland’s leadership at MedStar, the largest health care provider in Maryland and Washington, DC, where she served as senior vice president and chief nursing officer. The Pinnacle lectures’ keynote speaker is now named the Dr. Maureen P. McCausland Pinnacle Keynote Speaker. McCausland is now a senior advisor at McChrystal Group, an advisory services and leadership development firm.

Partnership Last summer, the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs approved the Associated Physicians of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as the Connell School’s nurse anesthesia program partner. Previously, Anaesthesia Associates of Massachusetts had shared authority for CSON’s program.

Photograph: Peter Julian

In memory Molly Ryan, M.S. ’19, died at home on July 30. Donations in Molly’s memory can be made to Hope Floats at hopefloatswellness.org.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

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A changemaker for ---Associate Professor Ellen Mahoney studies participant-directed services for people living with chronic illness and disability

By Timothy Gower

urrently, an estimated 44 million Americans provide unpaid care for a family member living with a chronic illness or disability. Over the past few years, Ellen Mahoney has spent many hours listening to these caregivers’ stories. “There’s really very little known about the experience of providing care from the perspective of the caregiver,” says Mahoney, an associate professor at the Connell School of Nursing. Studies have quantified levels of psychological stress and other health problems that family caregivers experience, ranging from high blood pressure to diabetes. But Mahoney believes that the key to easing the critical burdens many caregivers live with can be found in their own words. By recording and analyzing their personal narratives, she says, “we’re learning a lot that would otherwise be invisible.”

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caregivers A respected scholar, Mahoney was the lead author of three

ahoney’s current role is one she’s well suited to

interview-based studies that appeared in a special issue

take on: improving the lives of people with chronic

of the Journal of Gerontological Social Work published last

illness and their family caregivers has long been the

March. Her research, and her ongoing work, focuses on

focus of her clinical work and scholarship. She spent

family caregiving within the emerging and increasingly

years caring for people with chronic conditions in

significant participant-directed (or self-directed) alter-

various settings, including Philadelphia’s Hospital of

native health care delivery and reimbursement system,

the University of Pennsylvania and St. Mary’s Hospital

which promotes personal choice and control over who

and Medical Center in San Francisco before she arrived

provides services to people with disabilities who require

at Boston College in 1987. In 2000, she co-authored

long-term assistance but wish to remain in their own

Management of Challenging Behaviors in Dementia, a book

homes. (A participant-directed caregiver may be the

about a critical issue facing caregivers of people with

patient, a family member, or a friend who makes decisions

Alzheimer’s disease and related conditions. “And I’ve

that help the patient continue to live independently.)

been a family caregiver,” she adds, noting that she helped

Mahoney believes that what she is learning applies to anyone who looks after the health and well-being of a

care for her mother after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

loved one. “I want to be a champion for family caregivers

It was a member of her own clan who led Mahoney to

of people with chronic illness and disability,” she says.

focus her work on family caregivers in participant-directed

Mahoney hopes to learn more about how daily experiences of family caregivers take a toll on their psyches. In interviews she conducted, caregivers opened up about their struggles to provide what is sometimes complex nursing care while also negotiating the bureaucracy of Medicaid

care settings. Her brother, Kevin Mahoney, professor emeritus at the Boston College School of Social Work, has been a leading figure in research on and development of participant-directed care since it was first tested in the United States in the mid-1990s.

and other assistance programs, she says. Many she inter-

Many in the disability community have championed the

viewed expressed feeling socially isolated and forgotten,

idea of a participant-directed alternative option, says

while others talked about their fear of the future. “What

Kevin Mahoney. Many have been frustrated by the way

happens when I get too old to care for her?” one woman

agency-based care was administered, with recipients often

asked about her daughter, who has an intellectual

not knowing which aide might arrive to care for them, or

disability. “My biggest fear.”

when they will come each day. Some complained that the

Mahoney hopes that her findings will eventually lead to changes in Medicaid and other public assistance programs that may lighten the load caregivers bear.

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system was inf lexible and sometimes placed inconvenient restrictions on what aides can do in the home. In a real-life example, Kevin points to an aide assigned by an agency who was permitted to do laundry for a woman with severe multiple sclerosis, but not for her children.

“There’s very little known about the experience of providing care from the perspective of the caregiver.” —ellen mahoney, associate professor

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“Caregivers say that being able to tell their stories, in a way that might make a difference to somebody else, is really powerful.”

—ellen mahoney, associate professor

Participant-directed services were intended to give aid

says Ellen. Ultimately, those phone calls inspired her to

recipients more control, consistency, and f lexibility in

conduct two interview-based studies of family caregivers

how their care is delivered. Studies indicate that recipients

with Kevin and research fellow Aimee Milliken, Ph.D. ’17.

of participant-directed services are significantly more satisfied with their care, have fewer unmet needs (ranging from getting help dressing to receiving medications), and even experience fewer health problems, such as falls and bedsores. The number of Americans taking part in self-directed care has nearly doubled in the last decade.

---n 2009, Kevin joined Ellen at BC, where he became founding director of the University’s Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services, which assisted state

These studies, particularly the latter, highlighted specific challenges family caregivers face. Several of Mahoney’s interviewees pointed to unpredictability as a major problem. She spoke with a woman whose adult son with an intellectual disability was prone to screaming fits in public. Another caregiver told her, “Each day you can say this is how the day is going to go, but that’s usually not how it goes.” Dealing with paperwork required by supporting agencies is a grind too. “You just don’t get a break,” one woman said. “It keeps coming at you.”

Medicaid programs and other agencies in setting up

Many interviewees noted that times of transition—when a

participant-directed plans. (The organization became a

child with a disability becomes an adult and is no longer

separate corporation, Applied Self-Direction, after Kevin’s

eligible for services provided by local school systems, for

retirement.) In 2015, Ellen and Kevin teamed up and

instance—can be particularly challenging. “Caregivers say

obtained one of Boston College’s Research Across

it’s like falling off a cliff,” says Ellen. As one mother told

Disciplines and Schools grants to conduct an interview-

her, “Families fall apart because they’ve had school,

based study of military veterans in a participant-directed

they’ve had aftercare, they’ve been able to work. And then

services program administered by the U.S. Department

all of a sudden, the child turns 21 and there’s nothing.

of Veterans Affairs. The resulting study, published in the

There’s this void.”

Journal of Gerontological Social Work last year, showed that many vets said the care they received in participantdirected services vastly improved their lives.

Sometimes life events that would normally be merely inconvenient can turn into nightmares. “What am I going to do with my husband?” one woman asked. “I need

But something unexpected happened while the study was

surgery and he can’t be alone.” Some caregivers spoke of

underway. “Family caregivers would call us and say, ‘My

the difficulty of finding reliable home health aides, or even

veteran is not able to talk on the phone, but I want to talk,’”

someone skilled enough to fill in for a few hours when they need time off to relax or do errands. Other interviewees said their roles often left them feeling socially isolated. Yet some said that even when they receive support, it may be the wrong kind: for example, a man whose wife had a disability was referred to a support group for men whose wives were deceased. A number of family caregivers also cited high turnover and inadequate staff training among support coordinators at agencies that offered participant-directed services. They were concerned,

Associate Professor Ellen Mahoney Photograph: Caitlin Cunningham

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they said, that some lacked the knowledge to guide caregivers to community resources that might help address a patient’s particular needs. For her part, Mahoney hopes to complete a new study of family caregivers based on interviews she recently conducted in collaboration with colleagues at Brandeis University. And, based on the qualitative data she has compiled from analysis of her interviews, Mahoney has begun to formulate ideas about what kinds of policy recommendations could improve the lives of caregivers in all settings. A good start, she suggests, might be requiring more comprehensive training for support counselors at health service agencies, which would allow them to be more responsive to caregivers’ needs. Mahoney continues to be inspired by her conversations with people who give so much of themselves to care for their loved ones. “Caregivers tell me that unless someone has been in that situation, it’s very difficult to know what the experience is really like,” she says. “They say that being able to tell their stories to

6 6%

of family caregivers

in the United States are women.

6 0%

of spouses who care

for people with dementia become

somebody who cares, in a way that might make a

depressed, anxious,

difference to somebody else, is really powerful.”

or both.

38%

of family caregivers call the

2/3

experience “highly stressful.”

of older Americans who need

long-term assistance rely exclusively on family or friends.

Sources: Family Caregiver Alliance, AARP, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

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REMOVING ROADBLOCKS

25 min 7.9 miles

By Timothy Gower

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n Tuesday afternoons during the past two spring semesters, a group of Connell School of Nursing (CSON) students traveled roughly eight miles to the Mattapan Teen Center

(MTC), a brick building with a trimmed lawn off Blue Hill Avenue in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston. Several dozen boys, girls, and young adults, ranging in age from 11 to 18, met them inside the facility where, for the next five hours or so, the CSON students interacted with the teens. They spent some of that time teaching health topics, but the student-nurses took on other roles too—mentors, role models, and friends.

The future nurses who make the weekly trip to MTC are

“a win-win situation” that has benefited all of the young

students in Clinical Assistant Professor Donna Cullinan’s

people from Mattapan and Boston College who come

Population Health Practice in the Community course. In

together under the center’s roof.

January, Cullinan will oversee a new group of undergraduates who will spend Tuesday afternoons and early evenings at this haven for young people in Mattapan, a neighborhood that has long struggled with crime, poverty, and unemployment.

“My students come to better understand the lives of people living in poverty and the challenges they face, and how they can help them,” says Cullinan. Meanwhile, the young adults at the Mattapan Teen Center not only learn important lessons about health and self-care—they also

Cullinan’s students have already worked in a variety of

have a chance to engage with college students just a few

community settings, including homeless shelters,

years older than they are, which helps some to see new

schools, and prisons. She calls the partnership with MTC

possibilities for the future.

“My students come to better understand the lives of people living in poverty and the challenges they face, and how they can help them.” —donna cullinan, clinical assistant professor

The route between Boston College and the Mattapan Teen Center Map credit: Google Maps. Artwork: Monica DeSalvo

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TC is part of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston,

presence there. This is something Neil McCullagh

which was founded in 1893 with a stated mission

discovered when he arrived at Chestnut Hill in 2015 as

to “ensure all young people in our community have the

executive director of the recently endowed Joseph E.

opportunity to realize their full potential.” Reaching for

Corcoran Center for Real Estate and Urban Action, part of

that goal can be a particularly daunting challenge for the

the Carroll School of Management. The reason soon

young people of Mattapan. The community, where more

became apparent. “Mattapan is one of Boston’s neighbor-

than 90 percent of the residents are people of color and a

hoods with the greatest amount of need,” says McCullagh.

significant portion are non-English-speaking immigrants

“Yet it’s the least accessible neighborhood to the many

from Haiti and other Caribbean countries, is located about

anchor institutions in the city and in the region.”

six miles south of downtown Boston. While the overall crime rate in Boston has dropped six percent since last year, Mattapan has witnessed an eight percent increase. Many kids at MTC report that they know gang members.

The primary reason for this poor accessibility, McCullagh and his colleagues learned, is that Mattapan is not well served by public transportation. A BC student using the MBTA to travel to MTC in Mattapan has to take a Green

Moreover, the proportion of households with children

Line train, switch to the Orange Line (following a

under 18 that are led by single mothers is twice as high in

six-minute walk through Back Bay), then grab a 31 bus at

Mattapan as it is throughout Suffolk County (which

Forest Hills Station that makes a stop at Wellington Hill

comprises the cities of Boston, Chelsea, Revere, and

Street, a two-minute walk from the teen center. The entire

Winthrop). Compared to the rest of the county, the median

journey takes about an hour and a half, on a good day.

household income is 26 percent lower in Mattapan while the unemployment rate is 37 percent higher, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

To address this problem, in 2016 the Corcoran Center established the Mattapan Shuttle, which makes several trips and stops daily between campus and MTC, short-

Cullinan has a long history of working with the residents

ening the travel time to about 25 minutes. Improving

of Mattapan: She’s been doing diabetes screening and

access to Mattapan has contributed to a dynamic

offering other primary care services at Mattapan Health

engagement with Boston College: Today, students across

Center’s annual Health Care Revival for the past decade.

campus volunteer approximately 2,500 hours in the neigh-

However, BC as an institution has historically had little

borhood per semester, in a variety of roles. (See sidebar.)

MINIMIZING THE DISTANCE In addition to the Connell School’s

other communities in need

and performed Charlie and the

partnership with the Mattapan

throughout Boston.

Chocolate Factory at the Mildred

Teen Center, Boston College schools (Social Work, the Carroll School of Management, and CSON) and organizations (from the Theater Department to the Volunteer and Service Learning Center) have organized a number of efforts that aim to support Mattapan and

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For example, members of 4Boston,

Avenue K–8 School.

a service organization within BC’s

Students participating in these

Campus Ministry, have cleaned

efforts are helping to fulfill the

and painted classrooms at the

promise of BC’s Strategic Plan,

Mattahunt Elementary School

which aims to increase the

and volunteered in after-school

University’s presence and impact

programs. Theater students have

in the city of Boston, across the

run improvisation classes at MTC

country, and around the world.

“The teens at MTC not only learn important lessons about health and self-care, they have a chance to engage with college students and see new possibilities for the future.” —donna cullinan, clinical assistant professor

SON’s partnership with MTC began when Cullinan

The key to engaging the teens has been winning their

contacted the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston about

trust, says CSON student Stephen Valvano ’20, who took

having her students teach health basics at the clubs’

Population Health and spent Tuesdays at MTC last spring.

centers. She was soon working closely with Ronald Carroll,

Valvano says he took pains to ensure that the teens knew

who has been MTC’s director of community and member

he was deeply committed to working with them and not

engagement since the center opened in 2014. “I know

simply checking a box needed to pass a class. “Just

Mattapan really, really well,” says Carroll, who grew up in

wanting to be there made all the difference in the world,

nearby Milton, but hung out with friends in the neigh-

because they really picked up on that,” he says.

borhood as a youth. “Young people want structure. They want to feel safe. They want caring adults to give them guidance and some sense of stability,” Carroll adds. “That’s what the Mattapan Teen Center does.”

Valvano attended high school in another struggling community, Newark, New Jersey. “I was one of 10 kids who identified as white in a graduating class of 120,” he says. Many of his high school classmates lived with the

The bright, colorful 7,000-square-foot space is equipped

same problems experienced by the teens he worked with at

with computers, a music studio, gaming systems, and

MTC—gang violence, going hungry at times, and parents

pool tables. On school days, 65 or more teens begin

who are substance abusers or absent altogether. Valvano,

arriving at around 2:30 p.m. They can do as they please

who plans to become a nurse practitioner, says his time at

until 4:00 p.m., which is the start of “Power Hour,” when

MTC (which included a job on staff over the summer) has

they’re required to shut off cell phones and video games,

helped convince him to devote at least part of his nursing

and get out their homework. Dinner is at 5:00 p.m., fol-

career to working with urban youth. “I want to be one of

lowed by structured programs from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

those resources that can help make a difference,” he says,

During the later program block, Connell students present

“even if it’s just one kid.”

a health and wellness program for teens. Cullinan says she was sensitive from the outset of the project to the importance of first impressions. “We didn’t go marching in there saying, ‘We’re going to teach you about safe sex’ or whatever,” she says. “We took time to get to know the teens.” During the first few visits to MTC, they simply hung out with the Mattapan center regulars, playing games, listening to music, and helping with homework. They also talked a lot about their lives, sharing stories. The Connell School team asks teens at MTC what health issues interest them, then compiles the responses and assigns each topic to a pair of nursing students. They take turns, week by week, delivering presentations to a group of MTC teens. Past topics have included stress and depression, bullying on social media, and advice about a

CSON students and teens from MTC

healthy diet and exercise.

Photograph courtesy:

@mattapanteencenter

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Introducing our new faculty By Timothy Gower

This fall, the Connell School of Nursing welcomed four new faculty members. They are using state-of-the-art technology, trailblazing ideas, and time-tested practices to improve care of cancer patients and the frail elderly, and to educate future nurses.

Mei R. Fu Barry Family/Goldman Sachs Endowed Professor in Nursing

Photograph: Chris Huang

Mei R. Fu, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, is a renowned nurse scientist and the Connell School’s inaugural Barry Family/Goldman Sachs Endowed Professor in Nursing. Her many honors include a 2017 induction into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in recognition of her contributions to research and mentorship of future nurse scientists. Fu comes to the Connell School from the Rory Meyers College of Nursing at New York University (NYU). Fu’s research focuses on better understanding and early detection of lymphedema, a painful swelling in the extremities caused by faulty lymphatic drainage that affects about 40 percent of breast cancer survivors. She became interested in lymphedema early in her nursing career while working in an oncology center in Missouri. “Women with lymphedema would say, ‘Mei, I don’t need sympathy—I need someone who can help me,’” recalls Fu, who found that medicine had little to offer these patients. She went on to work with colleagues at NYU, developing exercises that relieve lymphedema symptoms by promoting lymph f low. Because the exercises must be performed precisely to be effective, Fu is developing a web-based tool that uses motion-sensor technology to track movements and provide feedback that patients can use on a mobile device or computer at home. She is also exploring the use of artificial intelligence to aid in the early detection of lymphedema. Fu’s science career in health care almost didn’t happen. She came to the United States from her native China to study journalism in 1994, but quickly shifted course, eventually earning her doctorate in nursing from the University of Missouri in 2003. She is co-teaching Conceptual Basis for Advanced Practice Nursing as well as Advanced Qualitative Research Methods. “With the endowed chair, I hope to do more exciting research and mentor students and junior faculty,” says Fu. “The vision and goals of the Connell School are to relieve suffering of human beings, and that is truly consistent with my worldview.”

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The Barry Family/Goldman Sachs Endowed Professorship in Nursing was established in 2014 with a gift from Steven M. Barry ’85 and Tammy J. Barry ’85, M.Ed. ’87, P ’14, ’17

Lisa Wood Professor

Wood considered becoming a pediatric nurse practitioner. But after graduating in 2000, she accepted a post as an assistant professor at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing in Portland, Oregon, where she collaborated with a colleague and mentor, Lillian Nail, Ph.D., RN, to study cancer and fatigue. “We pushed back on the usual clinical explanation, which was, ‘Well, of course you’re tired, you have cancer,’” says Wood. Their investigations in cell cultures and animal models revealed that chemotherapy drugs and radiation used to shrink malignant tumors trigger the release of inf lammatory proteins, which in turn cause fatigue, malaise, and other “sickness behaviors.” Wood is particularly interested in learning why 20 percent of people who undergo cancer therapy develop long-term, persistent fatigue; she’s currently studying the problem among a group of 120 breast cancer survivors with a grant from the National Institute on Aging. In other research, Wood is preparing to study the link between balance and cognition in patients with cancer and Lyme disease.

Photograph: Peter Julian

Lisa J. Wood, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, was doing post-doctoral research in cancer biology at Johns Hopkins University when she had a revelation. “I was studying the function of a protein in a cell, and it just seemed so abstract,” says Wood, who was born in England and earned a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Glasgow in Scotland. “I realized that what I wanted to do was explore patient-oriented research questions.” That recognition led her to enroll in an accelerated bachelor of science program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore.

Before she arrived at Boston College, Wood was the Amelia Peabody Professor in Nursing Research at the MGH Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing. As a professor at the Connell School, she’s co-teaching Research Design and Methods I and II in the doctoral program as well as Pharmacology and Nutrition Therapies, parts I and II, for undergraduates in the fall and spring semesters. “Should be fun!” says Wood, who relishes the role of mentor. “I’m looking forward to being able to share what I’ve learned.”

Christine Repsha

Photograph: Chris Huang

Clinical Instructor and Director, Brown Family Clinical Learning Laboratory and CSON Simulation Centers Christine Repsha, M.S., FNP-C, the new director of the Brown Family Clinical Learning Laboratory and CSON Simulation Centers, arrives at the Connell School from the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Lowell, where she was the nursing lab program manager at the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences. Repsha received a master’s degree from UMass Boston and is currently working toward her doctorate, with a concentration in health promotion in nursing, at UMass Lowell. In her prior position. Repsha oversaw the expansion of the school’s nursing lab from a modest facility used only by fourth-year undergraduates to a state-of-the-art teaching center that eventually included 15 simulation manikins, several of which were high-

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fidelity simulated humans that breathe, have pulses, make body sounds, and mimic other biological functions. While at UMass Lowell, Repsha developed 30 new simulation scenarios covering the lifespan and medical specialties. “Most people don’t realize how much work it takes to create a simulation,” says Repsha. “When you do a simulation, you create the patient, including his or her whole story and medical history—all the intricacies that go into the patient’s case.” The Connell School’s learning and simulation centers include 19 manikins, which Repsha says are particularly important for certain types of training, such as in pediatric medicine and nurse anesthesia. However, the centers also make significant use of actors (primarily undergraduates from other schools), who portray patients experiencing various medical conditions. “Boston College has built a really great simulation program,” says Repsha, adding that her priorities are to provide additional training for the actors who portray patients and to increase utilization of the lab by training faculty to conduct simulations on their own. “I’m looking forward to working with faculty,” she says, “to see where simulation can fit into their courses.”

Kellie LaPierre

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Clinical Assistant Professor This year marks a return to Boston College for Kellie LaPierre ’85, DNP, GNP-C, who not only received a bachelor’s degree from the Connell School but also taught as an undergraduate instructor from 2005 to 2008. “It’s like coming home,” says LaPierre, a gerontological nurse practitioner. She previously held a similar post at the Regis College School of Nursing in Weston, Mass. This fall, she taught Adult-Gerontology Primary Care, Advanced Health Assessment, and Advanced Pharmacology at the Connell School. Caring for the elderly has been a priority for LaPierre since her earliest clinical experience at Veterans Affairs hospitals in Brockton and West Roxbury, where she said several of her patients had served as far back as World War I. Since 2012, LaPierre has been a nurse practitioner at Wellesley Primary Care in Wellesley, Mass. There, she reintroduced an old concept in medicine—the house call—to ensure that frail elderly members of the community got the attention and treatment they needed. “It takes them all day to get into the office for a 20-minute appointment,” she says. “It makes more sense for us to go into their homes.” One day a week, LaPierre will continue to be part of this program, in which she and several other nurse practitioners see about 120 patients in their residences or in assisted-living facilities throughout Massachusetts’s MetroWest region. (She even enlisted a mobile radiology unit for performing x-rays, as needed.) LaPierre has traveled considerably farther in the interest of promoting health, however. At Regis College, she co-led a project known as Regis in Haiti, which was launched in 2007. LaPierre and her colleagues developed a graduate program for nursing instructors in the country, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. They drew 37 participants to earn master’s degrees in nursing and leadership over the course of a decade. “Their teaching abilities just blossomed,” says LaPierre, who has traveled to Haiti eight times. “They have become better teachers, and now they’re producing better nurses.”

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faculty publications Andrew Dwyer Kocher, A., Simon, M., Dwyer, A. A., Villiger, P. M., Künzler-Heule, P., De Geest, S., … Nicca, D. (2019). Developing a Rare Disease Chronic Care Model: Management of Systemic Sclerosis (MANOSS) Study Protocol. Journal of Advanced Nursing. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1111/jan.14185 Dwyer, A. A., Smith, N., & Quinton, R. (2019). Psychological Aspects of Congenital Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 10, 353. DOI: 10.3389/fendo. 2019.00353 Dwyer, A. A., Chavan, N. R., Lewkowitz-Shpuntoff, H., Plummer, L., Hayes, F. J., Seminara, S. B., … Balasubramanian, R. (2019). Functional Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism in Men: Underlying Neuroendocrine Mechanisms and Natural History. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 104(8), 3403–3414. DOI: 10.1210/jc.2018-02697 Davies, K., & Dwyer, A. A. (2019). Genetic Competencies for Effective Pediatric Endocrine Nursing Practice. Journal of Pediatric Nursing. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1016/j. pedn.2019.06.006

Kennison, M., Lamb, C., Ponder, J., Turner, L., Karpinski, A., & Dzurec, L. (2019). Expressive Writing: A Self-Care Intervention for First Year Undergraduates. Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal, 3(1), 44–55. DOI: 10.18061/ bhac.v3i1

Joyce Edmonds Jones, E. J., Hernandez, T. L., Edmonds, J. K., & Ferranti, E. P. (2019). Continued Disparities in Postpartum Follow-Up and Screening Among Women with Gestational Diabetes and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Systematic Review. The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing, 33(2), 136–148. DOI: 10.1097/ JPN.0000000000000399 Greene, N. H., Kilcoyne, J., Gray, A., Hawkes, S. G., Edmonds, J. K., & Gregory, K. (2019). Nurse-Specific Cesarean Rates: Why and How. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 220(1), S45. DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2018.11.062 Heelan-Fancher, L., Edmonds, J. K., & Jones, E. J. (2019). The Importance of Time in Decreasing Barriers to Research Utilization Among Labor and Delivery Nurses. Nursing Research, 68(6), E1–E7. DOI: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000388

Dwyer, A. A., & Quinton, R. (2019). Fertility and the Hypogonadal Male. In J. A. Stewart (Ed.), Subfertility, Reproductive Endocrinology, and Assisted Reproduction (pp. 94–105). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Stoll, K., Edmonds, J., Sadler, M., Thomson, G., McAra-Couper, J., Swift, E. M., … Downe, S. (2019). A Cross-Country Survey of Attitudes Toward Childbirth Technologies and Interventions Among University Students. Women and Birth, 32(3), 231–239. DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2018.07.025

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Haase, K. R., & Dzurec, L. (2019). Peer-Review Mentorship: What It Is and Why We Need It. Advances in Nursing Science, 42(3), 191–192. DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000272

Rivard, C., Philpotts, L. L., Flanagan, J. M., & Looby, S. E. (2019). Health Consequences 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

Dzurec, L., Karpinski, A., Kennison, M., Rair, R., & Fitzgerald, S. M. (2019). Assessing FamilyLike Dynamics in the Workplace as Possible Precursors of Workplace Bullying: Psychometric Analysis of a Modified Instrument. Journal of Nursing Measurement, 27(2), 297–312. DOI: 10.1891/1061-3749.27.2.297 Patterson, B. J., Dzurec, L., Sherwood, G., & Forrester, D. A. (2019). Developing Authentic Leadership Voice: Novice Faculty Experience. Nursing Education Perspectives. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1097/01. NEP.0000000000000494

Flanagan, J. M. (2019). Nursing Knowledge Development: Making the Implicit, Explicit. International Journal of Nursing Knowledge, 30(2), 67. DOI: 10.1111/2047-3095.12245 Hill, R., & Flanagan, J. M. (2019). The MaternalInfant Bond: Clarifying the Concept. International Journal of Nursing Knowledge. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1111/2047-3095.12235

Holly Fontenot Fontenot, H. B., Rosenberger, J. G., McNair, K. T., Mayer, K. H., & Zimet, G. (2019). Preferences and Perspectives for a Mobile Health Tool Designed to Facilitate HPV Vaccination Among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics 15(7-8), 1815–1823. DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2019.1568156

White, B. P., & Fontenot, H. B. (2019). Transgender and Non-Conforming Persons’ Mental Healthcare Experiences: An Integrative Review. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 33(2), 203– 210. DOI: 10.1016/j.apnu.2019.01.005 Cahill, S. R., Geffen, S. R., Fontenot, H. B., Wang, T. M., Viox, M. H., Fordyce, E., … Dunnville, R. (2019). Youth-Serving Professionals’ Perspectives on HIV Prevention Tools and Strategies Appropriate for Adolescent Gay and Bisexual Males and Transgender Youth. Journal of Pediatric Healthcare. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1016/j.pedhc.2019.09.003

Mei Fu Van Cleave, J. H., Fu, M. R., Bennett, A. V., Persky, M. S., Li, Z., Jacobson, A., … Egleston, B. L. (2019). The Development, Usability, and Reliability of the Electronic Patient Visit Assessment (ePVA) for Head and Neck Cancer. mHealth, 5, 21. DOI: 10.21037/mhealth. 2019.06.05 Kilmartin, L., Denham, T., Fu, M. R., Yu, G., Kuo, T.-T. T., Axelrod, D., & Guth, A. A. A. (2019). Complementary Low-Level Laser Therapy for Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema: A Pilot, Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study. Lasers in Medical Science. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1007/s10103-019-02798-1 Finlayson, C. S., Fu, M. R., Squires, A., Applebaum, A., Van Cleave, J., O’Cearbhaill, R., & DeRosa, A. P. (2019). The Experience of Being Aware of Disease Status in Women with Recurrent Ovarian Cancer: A Phenomenological Study. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 22(4), 377–384. DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2018.0127

Susan Gennaro Gennaro, S. (2019). Journal of Nursing Scholarship: How Are We Doing? Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 51(5), 499. DOI: 10.1111/ jnu.12512 Gennaro, S. (2019). The Perfect Author. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 51(4), 367. DOI: 10.1111/ jnu.12497

Pamela Grace Lee, S., Robinson, E. M., Grace, P. J., Zollfrank, A., & Jurchak, M. (2019). Developing a Moral Compass: Themes from the Clinical Ethics Residency for Nurses’ Final Essays. Nursing Ethics. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1177/0969733019833125

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Grace, P. J., & Zumstein-Shaha, M. (2019). Using Ockham’s Razor to Redefine “Nursing Science.” Nursing Philosophy, E12246. DOI: 10.1111/nup.12246 Lundquist, D. M., Berry, D. L., Boltz, M., DeSanto-Madeya, S. A., & Grace, P. J. (2019). Wearing the Mask of Wellness: The Experience of Young Women Living with Advanced Breast Cancer. Oncology Nursing Forum, 46(3), 329–337. DOI: 10.1188/19.ONF.329-337

Elizabeth Howard Geffen, L. N., Kelly, G., Morris, J. N., & Howard, E. P. (2019). Peer-to-Peer Support Model to Improve Quality of Life Among Highly Vulnerable, Low-Income Older Adults in Cape Town, South Africa. BMC Geriatrics, 19(279). DOI: 10.1186/ s12877-019-1310-0 Schnock, K. O., Howard, E. P., & Dykes, P. C. (2019). Fall Prevention Self-Management Among Older Adults: A Systematic Review. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 56(5), 747–755. DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2018.11.007 Howard, E., & Lee, B. (2019). Use of a Wellness Coaching Model Among Urban-Dwelling, Low-Income Older Adults. Journal of Community and Public Health Nursing, 5(3), 232. Zhang, Q., Shenkel, J., Paasche-Orlow, S., Cadge, W., Howard, E., Bryan, M., & Morris, J. N. (2019). Effect of Chaplaincy Visits in an Elder Care Setting: A Pilot Analysis of Existing Data. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy. DOI: 10.1080/ 08854726.2019.1599257 Lee, B., & Howard, E. (2019). Physical Activity and Positive Psychological Well-Being Attributes Among U.S. Latino Older Adults. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 45(6), 44–56. DOI: 10.3928/00989134-20190426-01

Corrine Jurgens Pucciarelli, G., Greco, A., Paturzo, M., Jurgens, C. Y., Durante, A., Alvaro, R., & Vellone, E. (2019). Psychometric Evaluation of the Heart Failure Somatic Perception Scale in a European Heart Failure Population. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 18(6), 484–491. DOI: 10.1177/1474515119846240 Sandau, K. E., Lee, C. S., Faulkner, K. M., Eckman, P., Garberich, R., Pozehl, B., Jurgens, C. Y., … Hoglund, B. A. (2019). Validity and Reliability of the Quality of Life with a Left Ventricular Assist Device (QOLVAD) Questionnaire. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 38(4), S261. DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2019.01.649

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Christopher Lee Auld, J. P., Mudd, J. O., Gelow, J. M., Lyons, K. S., Hiatt, S. O., & Lee, C. S. (2019). Device-Detected Congestion Is Associated with Worse PatientReported Outcomes in Heart Failure. Heart & Lung, 48(3), 208–214. DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng. 2018.12.003 Auld, J. P., Mudd, J. O., Gelow, J. M., Hiatt, S. O., & Lee, C. S. (2018). Self-Care Moderates the Relationship Between Symptoms and HealthRelated Quality of Life in Heart Failure. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 33(3), 217–224. DOI: 10.1097/JCN.0000000000000447 Denfeld, Q. E., Lee, C. S., Woodward, W. R., Hiatt, S. O., Mudd, J. O., & Habecker, B. A. (2019). Sympathetic Markers are Different Between Clinical Responders and Nonresponders After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 34(4), E1–E10. DOI: 10.1097/JCN.0000000000000580 Miller, L. M., Whitlatch, C. J., Lee, C. S., & Caserta, M. S. (2019). Care Values in Dementia: Patterns of Perception and Incongruence Among Family Care Dyads. Gerontologist, 59(3), 509–518. DOI: 10.1093/geront/gny008 Tilden, E. L., Phillippi, J. C., Ahlberg, M., King, T. L., Dissanayake, M., Lee, C. S., … Caughey, A. B. (2019). Describing Latent Phase Duration and Associated Characteristics Among 1281 Low-Risk Women in Spontaneous Labor. Birth, 46, 592–601. DOI: 10.1111/birt.12428 Kato, N. P., Jaarsma, T., Casida, J. M., Lee, C. S., Strömberg, A., & Gal, T. B. (2019). Development of an Instrument for Measuring Self-Care Behaviors After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. Progress in Transplantation, 29(4), 335–343. DOI: 10.1177/1526924819874358 Al Sabei, S. D., Ross, A. M., & Lee, C. S. (2019). Factors Influencing Nurses’ Willingness to Lead. Journal of Nursing Management, 27(2), 278–285. DOI: 10.1111/jonm.12698 Rising, M. L., Hassouneh, D. S., Lutz, K. F., Berry, P., & Lee, C. S. (2019). Hispanic Hospice Utilization: Integrative Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 30(2), 468–494. DOI: 10.1353/ hpu.2019.0042 Riegel, B., Jaarsma, T., Lee, C. S., & Strömberg, A. (2019). Integrating Symptoms into the MiddleRange Theory of Self-Care of Chronic Illness. ANS. Advances in Nursing Science, 42(3), 206–215. DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000237

Lee, C. S., & Lyons, K. S. (2019). Patterns, Relevance, and Predictors of Dyadic Mental Health Over Time in Lung Cancer. PsychoOncology, 28(8), 1721–1727. DOI: 10.1002/ pon.5153 Erickson, E. N., Lee, C. S., Grose, E., & Emeis, C. (2019). Physiologic Childbirth and Active Management of the Third Stage of Labor: A Latent Class Model of Risk for Postpartum Hemorrhage. Birth, 46(1), 69–79. DOI: 10.1111/birt.12384 Pucciarelli, G., Lee, C. S., Lyons, K. S., Simeone, S., Alvaro, R., & Vellone, E. (2019). Quality of Life Trajectories Among Stroke Survivors and the Related Changes in Caregiver Outcomes: A Growth Mixture Study. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 100(3), 433–440.e1. DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2018.07.428 MacDonald, K. M., Kavati, A., Ortiz, B., Alhossan, A., Lee, C. S., & Abraham, I. (2019). Short- and Long-Term Real-World Effectiveness of Omalizumab in Severe Allergic Asthma: Systematic Review of 42 Studies Published 20082018. Expert Review of Clinical Immunology, 15(5), 553–569. DOI: 10.1080/1744666X.2019.1574571 Lyons, K. S., Sadowski, T., & Lee, C. S. (2019). The Role of Concealment and Relationship Quality on Patient Hospitalizations, Care Strain and Depressive Symptoms in Heart Failure Dyads. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1177 /1474515119863791 Miller, L. M., Kaye, J. A., Lyons, K. S., Lee, C. S., Whitlatch, C. J., & Caserta, M. S. (2019). WellBeing in Dementia: A Cross-Sectional Dyadic Study of the Impact of Multiple Dimensions of Strain on Persons Living with Dementia and Their Family Care Partners. International Psychogeriatrics, 31(5), 617–626. DOI: 10.1017/S104161021800203X Riegel, B., Dunbar, S. B., Fitzsimons, D., Freedland, K. E., Lee, C. S., Middleton, S., … Jaarsma, T. (2019). Self-Care Research: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going? International Journal of Nursing Studies, 103402. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2019.103402

Karen Lyons Lee, C. S., & Lyons, K. S. (2019). Patterns, Relevance, and Predictors of Dyadic Mental Health Over Time in Lung Cancer. PsychoOncology, 28(8), 1721–1727. DOI: 10.1002/ pon.5153 Auld, J. P., Mudd, J. O., Gelow, J. M., Lyons, K. S., Hiatt, S. O., & Lee, C. S. (2019). Device-Detected Congestion Is Associated with Worse PatientReported Outcomes in Heart Failure. Heart & Lung, 48(3), 208–214. DOI: 10.1016/j. hrtlng.2018.12.003

Pucciarelli, G., Lee, C. S., Lyons, K. S., Simeone, S., Alvaro, R., & Vellone, E. (2019). Quality of Life Trajectories Among Stroke Survivors and the Related Changes in Caregiver Outcomes: A Growth Mixture Study. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 100(3), 433–440.e1. DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2018.07.428

Pados, B. F., Thoyre, S., & Galer, K. (2019). Neonatal Eating Assessment Tool - Mixed Breastfeeding and Bottle-feeding (NeoEAT Mixed Feeding): Factor Analysis and Psychometric Properties. Maternal Health, Neonatology and Perinatology, 5(12). DOI: 10.1186/s40748-0190107-7

Lyons, K. S., Sadowski, T., & Lee, C. S. (2019). The Role of Concealment and Relationship Quality on Patient Hospitalizations, Care Strain and Depressive Symptoms in Heart Failure Dyads. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1177/ 1474515119863791

Pados, B. F., Park, J., & Thoyre, S. M. (2019). Neonatal Eating Assessment Tool - Breastfeeding: Reference Values for Infants Less Than 7 Months Old. Journal of Human Lactation. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1177/0890334419869598

Miller, L. M., Kaye, J. A., Lyons, K. S., Lee, C. S., Whitlatch, C. J., & Caserta, M. S. (2019). WellBeing in Dementia: A Cross-Sectional Dyadic Study of the Impact of Multiple Dimensions of Strain on Persons Living with Dementia and Their Family Care Partners. International Psychogeriatrics, 31(5), 617–626. DOI: 10.1017/S104161021800203X

Britt Pados Pados, B. F., & Hill, R. (2019). Parents’ Descriptions of Feeding Their Young Infants. Nursing for Women’s Health, 23(5), 404–413. DOI: 10.1016/j.nwh.2019.08.001 McGlothen-Bell, K., Cleveland, L., & Pados, B. F. (2019). To Consent, or Not Consent, That Is the Question: Ethical Issues of Informed Consent for the Use of Donor Human Milk in the NICU Setting. Advances in Neonatal Care, 19(5), 371–375. DOI: 10.1097/ANC.0000000000000651 Pados, B. F., & McGlothen-Bell, K. (2019). Benefits of Infant Massage for Infants and Parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Nursing for Women’s Health, 23(3), 265–271. DOI: 10.1016/j.nwh.2019.03.004

Pados, B. F., Thoyre, S., Park, J., Estrem, H., & McComish, C. (2019). Development and Content Validation of the Child Oral and Motor Proficiency Scale (ChOMPS). Journal of Early Intervention, 41(3), 220–232. DOI: 10.1177/1053815119841091 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

Jinhee Park Park, J., Silva, S. G., Thoyre, S. M., & Brandon, D. H. (2019). Relationship Between the Developmental Trajectory of Sleep-Wake States and Feeding Progression in Preterm Infants. Nursing Research. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000395

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Judith Vessey Pfeifer, L., & Vessey, J. A. (2019). Psychological Safety on the Healthcare Team. Nursing Management, 50(8), 32–38. DOI: 10.1097/01. NUMA.0000558490.12760.08. Riesch, S. K., Liu, J., Kaufmann, P. G., Doswell, W. M., Cohen, S., & Vessey, J. A. (2019). Preventing Adverse Health Outcomes Among Children and Adolescents by Addressing Screen Media Practices Concomitant to Sleep Disturbance. Nursing Outlook, 67(4), 492–496. DOI: 10.1016/j.outlook.2019.06.009

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Terry Fulmer, M.S. ’77, Ph.D. ’83, president of The John A. Hartford Foundation, receives the Dean Rita P. Kelleher Award at reunion. A discussion and reception follow.

At this conference, nursing experts who examine large data sets that incorporate nursing language use their insights to inform practice, expand knowledge, and drive international research, education, and policy.