Vol. 7, No. 7
- Last Chance to Register! School of Nursing Homecoming Celebration -October 29
- Palliative Care Nurse-Scientist Receives Combined Grants of $2.1 Million
- Congratulations to SON Faculty Member Beth Lamanna
- AAUW Awards International Fellowship to SON Doctoral Student
- Dr. Maggie Miller Receives “Excellence in Management Award”
- Game Becomes Learning Tool for Nursing Students
- New Nursing Innovations Help Premature Babies Suck, Swallow and Breathe More Easily
- Pharmacology Update 2011 for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses and Physician Assistants
Palliative Care Nurse-Scientist Receives Combined Grants of $2.1 Million
Dr. Mi-Kyung Song, associate professor in the School of Nursing, has been awarded at $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a longitudinal study to examine the multi-dimensional trajectories of patients with end-stage kidney disease who are at a high risk of experiencing acute life-threatening events and mortality within 12 months.
She also received a supplemental bioethics grant in the amount of $147,011 to better understand how decisions to start dialysis were made by patents as they evaluated life-sustaining treatment and end-of-life preferences. This was a highly competitive award that was made to less than 10% of the 100 applications from 27 institutes and centers.