Vol. 7, No. 8
- Dean’s Report to Alumni: SON Accreditation Review Summary
- SON Researchers Receive NIH Funding to Study Childhood Chronic Conditions and the Family
- UNC Project-Malawi Nurse Comes to Chapel Hill for PhD
- Megan Williams to lead NCNA
- SON Students Score High on NCLEX
- Breast Cancer in Younger Women Requires Different Approach
- UNC and REX CNOs Recognized
- Diane Berry Receives Appointment and Grant
- Coretta Jenerette Receives TraCs Grant
- IRA Rollover Provision to Expire Dec. 31
- Top Cited Article Comes from SON
- Norma Hawthorne Set to Retire in December
Coretta Jenerette Receives TraCs Grant
Dr. Coretta Jenerette received a NC TraCS grant to develop the Nurse Subscale of the Sickle Cell Health-Related Stigma Scale. Health care providers have been shown to mistake the pain relief-seeking behavior of persons with sickle cell disease for drug-seeking behavior. Pain is the key symptom of sickle cell disease. This mistake unnecessarily stigmatizes persons with sickle cell disease and may negatively affect the establishment of mutually trusting and respectful relationships between them and their health care providers. Such negative encounters may contribute to poorer health outcomes. The proposed study builds on earlier work to develop instruments to measure both sickle cell disease patients’ perceptions of stigmatization by nurses and nurses’ perceptions of individuals with sickle cell disease. While Dr. Jenerette collects data at UNC-Chapel Hill, her co-investigator, Cheedy Jaja, PhD, RN, will be collecting data at the Georgia Health Sciences University.