DNP Student Awarded Saha Cardiovascular Research Award

The Saha Cardiovascular Research Center recently announced DNP student Joy Coles, BSN, RN, a recipient of the 2017 Saha Awards.

These annual awards are given to medical and nursing students as well as to a nurse educator. They are designed to reward creativity, dedication and knowledge in areas of cardiovascular research, disease prevention and patient education.

Coles is currently a staff registered nurse for UK HealthCare with a BSN from the UK College of Nursing and holds several part-time clinical faculty member positions at the UK College of Nursing as clinical instructor, guest lecturer, and teaching assistant. She will graduate in December 2018 from the Doctor of Nursing program in the Adult-Gerontological Acute Care Nurse Practitioner track with interests in cardiovascular disease management and prevention. Her current focus involves establishing depression screening in the Cardiovascular ICU in patients who have undergone a Coronary Artery Bypass Graft. In the future, Joy plans to seek a joint faculty appointment in a research-intensive university where she can become an educator for the next generation of nurse scholars and be a Board-certified Acute Care Nurse Practitioner for patients in the Critical Care Intensive Unit.

The 2017 Saha Awards were presented to the awardees on November 3 at the 20th Annual Gill Heart Institute Cardiovascular Research Day. To learn more about the event, follow the link to the Cardiovascular Research Day website. 

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