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Health and engineering scientists create mobile app for patients with heart failure


Carrie Conway, a representative of Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation, recently visited USF Nursing and met scholarship recipients. 

Dr. Theresa Beckie was invited to speak at the Women's Cardiovascular Programs & Services conference held at Embassy Suites in Tampa.

This year's USF Nursing Career Expo held on Feb. 15 featured 20 professional partners. The third annual event gave more than 110 undergraduate nursing students the opportunity to meet and network with some of the top hospitals and healthcare organizations in the region.
USF Health Simulation Consortium receives full accreditation
Accreditation includes USF Nursing simulation center

The USF Health Simulation Consortium recently received accreditation renewal during the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare hosted by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH).
U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor emphasized the importance of highly skilled nurses during her Feb. 13 tour of the newly renovated USF College of Nursing George and Marian Miller Center for Virtual Learning.
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FEBRUARY
Student Affairs Fun Committee
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Julia Myers
 
UPCOMING EVENTS

March 8 - 9    Visitors  from  University of the West of Scotland

March 24       Student Research Pecha Kucha
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
Publications

Beckstead, J.W. (2017).The Bifocal Lens Model and Equation: Examining the linkage between clinical judgments and decisions. Medical Decision Making , 37(1), 35-45, DOI: 10.1177/0272989X16674196.

Beckstead, J.W. Boutis, K., Pecaric, M.R., & Pusic, M.V. (2017). Sequential dependencies in categorical judgments of radiographic images. Advances in Health Science Education, 22(1), 197-207, DOI 10.1007/s10459-016-9692-7.

Buck, H.G., Hupcey, J., Mogle, J. & Rayens, M.K. (In Press) Caregivers' heart failure knowledge is necessary but not sufficient to assure engagement with patients in self-care maintenance. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing.

Buck, H.G., Hupcey, J., & Watach, A. (In Press) Patterns vs. change: Community-based dyadic heart failure self-care. Clinical Nursing Research.

Buck, H.G., Harkness, K., Muhammad, U.A., Carroll, S., Kryworuchko, J., & McGillion, M. (In Press) The Caregiver Contribution to Heart Failure Self-care (CACHS): further psychometric testing of a novel instrument. Research in Nursing and Health.

D'Aoust, R. F., Rossiter, A. G., Elliott, A. E., Ji, M., Lengacher, C., Groer, M.,  Women veterans, a population at risk for fibromyalgia: The associations between fibromyalgia, symptoms and quality of life. Military Medicine. (Accepted).

Gonzalez-Mercado, V. J. , Williams, P. D., Williams, A. R., Pedro, E., & Colon, G. (2017). The symptom experiences of Puerto Rican children undergoing cancer treatments and alleviation practices as reported by their mothers. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 23(1). doi: 10.1111/ijn.12500

Gonzalez, V. J., McMillan, S. C., Groer, M. , Imbert, S., Pedro, E., & Tome, J. (2017). Symptom Burden: Experiences of Puerto Rican Men With Prostate Cancer Prior to External Beam Radiation Therapy. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 21(1), 104-112. doi: 10.1188/17.cjon.104-112

Hyer, K., MacDonald, G., Black, K., Badana, A., & Haley, W.E. (2017). Preparing for Florida's older adult population growth with user-friendly demographic maps. 

Kimonis E.R., Goulter N., Hawes D.J., Wilbur R.R., Groer M.W. (2017).  Neuroendocrine factors distinguish juvenile psychopathy variantsDevelopmental Psychobiology. ;59(2):161-173. doi: 10.1002/dev.21473.  PMID: 27616728

Lloyd, T., Buck, H.G., Foy, A., Black, S., Pinter, A., Pogash, R., Eismann, B., Balaban, E., Chan, J., Kunselman, A., Smyth, J., Boehmer, J., (In Press) The Penn State Heart Assistant: A Pilot Study Of A Web-Based Intervention To Improve Self-Care Of Heart Failure Patients. Health Informatics Journal.

Maguire, D.J., & Groer, M.W.  (2016). Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and the gastrointestinal tract. Medical Hypotheses 97; 11-15. doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2016.10.006

Palacios, C., Daniel, C. R., Tirado-Gomez, M.,  Gonzalez-Mercado, V. , Vallejo, L., Lozada, J., ... Basen-Engquist, K. (2017). Dietary Patterns in Puerto Rican and Mexican-American Breast Cancer Survivors: A Pilot Study. Journal Immigrant and Minority Health, 19(2), 341-348. doi: 10.1007/s10903-016-0398-y

Presentations

"Palliative and Hospice Nursing Professional Issues Panel Call to Action"
Buck, H.G. for the American Nurses Association Annual Conference: Translating Quality into Practice from March 8-10, 2017 in Tampa, FL. 

"Identifying Opportunities to Enhance Heart Failure Self-care in Community-dwelling Patients and Informal Caregivers" Buck, H.G., Hupcey, J. for the 2017 Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, February 22-5, Phoenix, AZ.

Cantero, D.H., Michael, M., & Berarducci, A. (2017, March). Impact of a Graduate Interprofessional Clinical Immersion Experience with Older Adults. [Poster presentation]. Association for Gerontology in Higher Education Conference, Miami, FL.

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