AJ Cook, Stephanie Bell, and Lauren Shipton (all Nursing) have been elected to positions on the Board of Directors of the National Student Nurses Association. Cook was selected vice president, while Bell was selected director-West, and Shipton was chosen for the Nominations and Elections Committee. These three students are the first from UNLV…

Rei Serafica (Nursing) served as the guest editor for the special issue in Technology and Health among APIs in the Asian/Pacific Island Nursing (APIN) Journal. The journal offers a forum for empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues related to API ethnic, cultural values, and beliefs and biological and physiological phenomena that can…

Reimund Serafica (Nursing) is the lead author of the article “The Use of Social Media and mEMA Technology in Comparing Compliance Rate Among Users" in The Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal. Serafica co-published with Brendan Morris (Electrical and Computer Engineering). The article reports the results of two approaches to dietary monitoring…

Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing) received the 2019 Gerontological Nursing Science Dissertation Award at Midwest Nursing Research Society 43rd Annual Research Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, in March.

Rachell A. Ekroos (Nursing) provided a three-hour workshop during the U.S. Army’s Sexual Assault Response Prevention (SHARP) Victim Advocate Training at the George W. Dunaway U.S. Army Reserve Center. The workshop addressed several significant topics including clinical sexual assault examination practices, multidisciplinary responses to sexual…

Angela Amar (Nursing) was appointed to the Masters Essential Revision Task Force for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The committee leads the revisions to this important document that guides graduate nursing education and accreditation.

Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) and Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing) co-authored an article with others titled “Racial Differences in Future Care Planning in Late Life." Their article was published in the journal Ethnicity & Health. 

Tedd Girouard and Kara Radzak (both Athletic Training) along with Du Feng (Nursing) and alumna Jessica Dunn,'16 MS Kinesiology, co-authored “Sex Specific Post-concussion Symptom Reporting in Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis,” which concluded additional research should further evaluate if differences between male and female…

Rei Serafica (Nursing) is the lead author of a recently published article, "The Use of Mobile Health to Assist Self-management and Access to Services in a Rural Community" in the Journal of Computers, Informatics, Nursing: CIN. The purpose of the study was to explore the barriers to and needs for using mobile health technology to assist low income…

Alona Angosta and Rhigel A. Tan (Nursing) with collaborator, Daniel Heil of Montana State University, and  graduate student, Wei Zhu, recently published an article, "The Energy Expenditure of Tinikling: A Culturally Relevant Filipino Dance," in the International Journal of Exercise Science. This article examines the energy…

Rachell A. Ekroos (Nursing) and colleague Sarah E. Shannon (Montana State University) are authors of a paper,  "Forensic Medical Examinations: Imagining Justice," accepted for publication in the Journal of Forensic Nursing. The paper explores underlying assumptions that may contribute to disparate practices and inequalities regarding forensic…

Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) co-authored an article, “Gendered ‘Long Arm’ of Parental Education?: Life Course Influences on Functional Limitations Among Older Adults in India,” that was published in the Journal of Aging and Health. Bhatta also co-authored a chapter with Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing) and Moushumi Roy (Michigan State University), “The…