Angela Silvestri-Elmore (Nursing) was accepted into Sigma Nursing's new Academic Leadership Academy. The academy helps grow academy appointees on their career trajectories through leadership training. Additionally, Reimund Serafica (Nursing) passed the American Nurses Credentialing Center's psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner board…

Teresa Praus and Mary Bondmass (both Nursing), along with Drs. Jonathan Li,  Svetlana Barbarash,  and Manuel Proenza, all of the cardiology department of Southwest Medical Associates, wrote "Improving Care for Patients with Atrial Fibrillation through the Use of a Personal Electrocardiogram," which was published last month in the Journal…

Angela Amar (Nursing) presented in front of the Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International on the topic of Nursing Leadership in Social Justice and Anti-Racism.

Tirth Bhatta (Sociology), Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing), and their colleagues developed a brief, reliable, and valid altruism scale that is useful for assessing this important prosocial orientation and resource among older adults and other age groups. Despite growing interest in the health significance of altruistic orientations, surprisingly little…

Reimund Serafica (Nursing) was named president to the executive committee for the Asian American Pacific Islander Nurses Association of Nevada (AAPINA) for 2021. He and other members will be officially inducted virtually Dec. 19.

Angela Silvestri-Elmore and Linda Silvestri (both Nursing), along with their colleague Donna Ignatavicius, recently presented a poster at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Faculty Forum titled, "Strategies for Building Clinical Judgment in a Virtual Clinical Learning Environment." The poster was focused on ways nurse educators can…

Paul Thomas Clements (Nursing) co-authored a new manuscript, "When a Child Is Found Dead: The Role of the Forensic Nurse Death Investigator and Psychosocial Impact for Parents." Co-authored with Bobbi Joe O'Neill of the Charleston County coroner's office in South Carolina, the article was published in the Journal of Forensic Nursing.

Five Nursing graduate students recently successfully defended their DNP Projects/PhD dissertations to earn their doctorate titles: Lynn Senette: "Fluctuating Cohesion: A Grounded Theory Study of Nursing Students Engaged in a Hybrid Debriefing Format." Rhiannon Sullivan:  "Becoming Myself: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study…

Iris Martinez and Lisa Carnes (both Nursing) each received a $2,500 scholarship from the UNLV Alumni Association. The scholarships were made possible as a result professor Alona Angosta, director of the master of science - nursing program, receiving the UNLV Outstanding Faculty Award this year. Both students applied for and were recognized for…

Andrew Thomas Reyes, Reimund Serafica, and Angela Sojobi (all Nursing) co-authored, “College Student Veterans’ Experience with a Mindfulness- and Acceptance-Based Mobile App Intervention for PTSD: A Qualitative Study,” which is published in the December issue of the Archives of Psychiatric Nursing.

Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) and Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing) collaborated with Eva Kahana of the sociology department at Case Western Reserve University and Boaz Kahana to publish a research article, "Loving Others: The Impact of Compassionate Love on Later Life Psychological Well-being," in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. The article concerns the…

Rei Serafica (Nursing) has co-authored an article, "Telepsychiatry During the COVID-19 Pandemic," in The Nurse Practitioner. The article reports implications in using telehealth as a platform for psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists during this pandemic.