Jillian Inouye and Nada Lukkahatai (Nursing) were part of a research team that received an Outstanding Oral Presentation Award for the project "Wearable Technology and Bio-psycho-social Measures of Symptom Burden" during the Optimizing Health Care Quality: Teamwork in Education, Research, and Practice Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand. More than…

Susan VanBeuge (Nursing) was re-elected as the Nevada representative for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). During her two-year term, concluding during 2018, VanBeuge will fulfill numerous duties centered on representing the AANP, its members, and the community at large.

Marianne Tejada (Nursing) has been selected to the Summer Genetics Institute, a tuition-free, one-month intensive research training program at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. The program, sponsored by the National Institute of Nursing Research, seeks to increase the research capability among graduate students and faculty,…

Cheryl Perna (Nursing) co-authored “Patient Care Outcomes and Temporary Nurses,” which appeared in Nursing Management, and “The Development of a PTSD Standardized Patient Encounter,” which appeared in MedEdPORTAL Publications. The articles published during August and November 2015 respectively. She also led two poster presentations during…

The UNLV School of Nursing has been selected as publisher of the Asian Pacific Island Nursing Journal, a peer-reviewed international forum for the exchange of knowledge in relation to Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander health and nursing care. Nursing faculty members will retain their editorial roles with the publication: …

Jessica Doolen (Nursing) co-authored “Nursing Simulation Research: What are the Perceived Gaps,” which determined a need for more rigorous multisite studies centered on student and/or patient outcomes. The article appeared in the January issue of Clinical Simulation in Nursing.  

Tish Smyer, Tricia Gatlin, Rhigel Tan, Marianne Tejada, and Du Feng (all Nursing) co-authored “Academic Outcome Measures of a Dedicated Education Unit Over Time: Help or Hinder,” which appeared in November/December 2015 issue of Nurse Educator. The article examined a study focused on whether students placed on a dedicated education unit achieved…

Jessica Doolen (Nursing) earned the 2015 Nurse of the Year award in the education category from the Nevada chapter of the March of Dimes. Doolen teaches in the school’s undergraduate and the graduate programs, and is the educational director at the Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas on the Shadow Lane campus. She has been a full-time faculty…

Professors Jay Shen (Community Health Sciences) and Abbie Kirkendall (Social Work) are conducting a project with nearly $15,000 funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to form a Palliative Care Research Network in Nevada through a variety of community engagement activities. The project will help…

Reimund Serafica (School of Nursing) is first author of “Hapag Kainan: Dietary Consumption of Fat, Sugar, Fruits and Vegetables Among Filipino Americans,” a study that explored the relationships among dietary consumption variables and the anthropometric measurements of Filipino Americans. The article appeared in the Journal of Cultural…

Alona Angosta, Jillian Inouye, Tricia Gatlin, and Reimund Serafica (all Nursing) have had their abstract accepted for an international symposium. They will present "Effects of Dance in Chronic Illness: A Systematic Review" at the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing 43rd Biennial Convention, which will take place in Las Vegas…

Reimund Serafica, Alona Angosta (both Nursing), and Sheniz Moonie (Environmental and Occupational Health) are the authors of an article, "Measuring Enjoyment of Ballroom Dancing in Filipino Americans Using the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale," which recently was published in the peer-reviewed publication Asian Pacific Island Nursing Journal.