It was a day of pride – and posters – as the School of Nursing resurrected a favorite event – Nursing Research & Scholarship Day.

Faculty and students gathered in Shouse last Thursday to learn what each other is doing in the world of research. 

Associate Professor Clara Gona helped make this event happen, following a hiatus that lasted a few years. 

“As I was thinking about my own research, I realized I don't know what everybody else is doing,” Gona said. “So, I thought, ‘Wouldn't it be great if we bring it back?’”

Gona spoke to nursing leadership, which signed off, then enlisted Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor John Wong to help pull it all together. 

“This is a great opportunity to showcase different types of nursing research,” said Wong. “The type of scholarship that nursing scientists engage in are very broad in terms of quality improvement, patient care, health equity, teaching, and learning, and also health policy. So, all these types of research, we don’t have a lot of opportunities to share with the IHP community.”

On this day, fourteen abstracts – seven from faculty and seven from students – were shared, each chosen by School of Nursing faculty emeriti.

Before faculty and students spoke with peers about their research, Dean Maura Abbott provided opening remarks, and was followed by key note speaker Kathryn Post, a nurse scientist in the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Cancer Outcomes Research & Education (CORE) Program. 

“We hope that through this, people will know what we're doing,” noted Wong. “We and we hope some of the faculty members will actually be stimulated to collaborate in some projects in the future, and some of our students will be motivated to engage in research after they graduate.”

For Gona, it was mission accomplished in term of learning what colleagues and students are doing. 

“And also, just to showcase what we’re doing in the School of Nursing because people don't know that we're doing all this scholarship - we're doing a lot of work,” summarized Gona. “So, I thought this would be nice celebratory day for us in our school.”

Indeed, it was. 

Here was the research on display. 

Faculty Posters

Colleen McCormack: Ready for TakeoW: An Evidence-Informed Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Shift Safety Checks in a Pediatric ICU 

Eleonor Pusey-Reid: Underrepresentation of Dark Skin in Nursing Textbook Images of Clinical Conditions: A Quantitative Observational Image Analysis 

Aimee Bollentin: Predictors of Minor Femoral Access Site Bleeding After Pulse Field Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation 

Joan M. Parise and Alex Hoyt: The EWect of Remuneration on Precepting Capacity: Results of a National Survey 

Karen Hunt and Rachael Salguero: Translating the AACN Essentials into Clinical Competencies: Lessons from FRAME Implementation 

Suellen Breakey, Jean Bernhardt, Rosemary Caron, Kathryn Sabo, Abraham Ndiwane, Mary Samost, & Jessica Bell: Successful Integration of Climate Change and Health into Health Professions Curricula: A Scoping Review 

Debra Blyth-Wilk and Suellen Breakey: Developing Disaster Leadership Competencies in DNP Students: An Equity-Focused Population Health Learning Module 

Student Posters

Melissa Nee, Mary Samost, and Kathryn Hall: Evaluating Self-EWicacy and Clinical Competence within a Nurse Practitioner Fellowship 

Kayleigh Hyder and Sarah Rossmassler: Provider Knowledge & Attitudes Surrounding Palliative Care Referral Practices: A Literature Review 

Rebecca Ferry and Sarah Rossmassler: Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: A Brief Learning Module for Future PMHNP Providers 

Joan Parise and Mary Samost: Enhancing Nurse Practitioner Preceptor Self-EWicacy: A Multi-Modal Program Evaluation 

Jenny Rabinowich and Antonia Makosky: Understanding the Dissolution of USAID and Its Impact on Global Healthcare Delivery: A Scoping Review 

Caitlin D’Amico and Kathryn Kieran: The Gut Disconnection: Patients with IBS Share Gaps in Care 

Jill Pedro, Christine A. Foley, Falisha Porto, Shannon Mahoney, and Lindsay Russell: Mobility Matters! Step by Step: Transforming Patient Care Hospital-Wide Through Nurse Led Mobilization

Podium Presentations

Ingrid Korbani and Natalie J. Shook: DiWerential Associations of Perfectionism Dimensions with Chronic Pain Outcomes 

Alex Hoyt, Jason Lucey, Susan Kelly-Weeder, and Monica O’Reilly-Jacob: Autonomy and Job Outcomes of DNP and Masters-Prepared NPs: A Nationally-Representative, Comparative Study

Laura Cline: Reducing 30-Day Readmissions in Skilled Nursing Facilities Through a Nurse-Driven Zone-Based Heart Failure Protocol 

John Wong: Driven to Succeed - Incorporation of Motivational Strategies in Teaching Improved Nursing Student Satisfaction 

Clara Gona, Rosalia Gotora, Kenya Palmer Emrich, Ruth Palen Lopez, Philimon Gona: Navigating Health and Culture: Understanding the Health Promotion Beliefs of Zimbabwean Immigrant Men in the United States 

Kathryn E. Hall, Jean Bernhardt, Falisha Porto, Lydia Lu, and Deborah Henault: The Use of Information Technology to Mitigate Protocol Deviations in Clinical Research

Roksolana Starodub and Margie Sipe: Creating Innovative Solutions in the Classroom: Using Design Thinking to Address Workplace Violence 

Kathryn Kieran and Alexander Wolf: Reimagining the OSCE for Advanced Practice Nursing Education