Nursing Research Papers Day at the University of Kentucky
Nursing Research Papers Day will take place on Fri., Nov. 6 in the Colonial Ballroom of the Campbell House and will showcase the work of UK HealthCare nurses and College of Nursing students. From 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., presenters will discuss research topics ranging from the management of sepsis to the use of Facebook as a support medium for heart failure patients with left ventricular assist devices.
View all of the abstracts here.
For the last 41 years, UK nurses have conducted research to improve patient care in our local community and beyond. The first Nursing Research Papers Day was held in 1989 after the first formal nursing research committee at UK Chandler Medical Center (UKMC) met in 1975 to review nursing research proposals investigating compliance with self-breast examination and the impact of primary nursing on the quality of nursing care. Unit-based research committees were introduced in 1980, and in 1986 the role of research in nursing practice was integrated with the associate, bachelor and master’s degree nursing job descriptions.
In 1996, UK initiated the Dorothy Brockopp Nursing Research Award to honor Brockopp, who was then the nurse researcher for UKCMC and later on went on to serve for two years as the associate director of International Affairs at UK. Up to $1,000 is available for nursing research proposals, studies in progress, or completed studies. A practice improvement or evidence-based practice projects may also be funded.
The members of the Nursing Research Committee for 2015 are:
Bauman, Jennifer
Bodine, Michele
Boling, Bryan
Chamblin, Lisa
Chappell, Hazel
Cheung, Robyn B.
Clements, Linda
Evans, James G.
Gabbard, Sarah
Gifford, Andrea S.
Gwanyanya, Tsitsi
Holtzclaw, Linda
Howard, Patricia K.
Johnson, Shannon
McIntosh, Angela
Mlack, Karalee
Mock, Vickie H
Okoli, Chizimuzo T.
Rainey, Renee
Wethington, Mary
