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Nurse Researcher Designs Community-Based Farm Theater Dinners to Spark Conversations About Occupational Safety and Health

Aug 8, 2016
Research

  By Elizabeth Adams Third-generation farmer Marjorie Hunter never fretted about sunscreen or covered up with long sleeves while picking blueberries or moving Angus beef cattle on her 240 acres of farmland. 

Health and safety professionals aren’t immune to mental health woes

Aug 8, 2016
Research

This article appeared in the Lexington Herald-Leader on Aug. 8, 2016. Health care professionals and emergency responders confront the brutality of injury and illness on a daily basis. Too often we assume these heroes can block out the horrors and heartbreak of their jobs, that they are superhuman. But the idea that physicians, nurses, officers and EMTs are impervious to mental illness is untrue.

Healthy Pregnancies and Pre-term Birth Prevention Drive Work of UK College of Nursing Researcher

Jul 28, 2016
Research

  By Elizabeth Adams Working as a labor and delivery nurse for a decade, Kristin Ashford was surrounded by happy beginnings. She helped women and families welcome healthy babies into the world. 

Faculty Members Receive Grant for Tobacco-free Ambassadors (TAP) Partnership: Linking K-12 Schools and Community Colleges Project

Jul 26, 2016
Public Service

College of Nursing Professor Ellen Hahn, PhD, RN, FAAN, and College of Education Assistant Professor Mindy Ickes, PhD, recently received $100,000 from the CVS Health Foundation for their Tobacco-free Ambassadors Partnership (TAP): Linking K-12 Schools and Community Colleges project.

Pregnancy Treated as a Moment for Recovery through UK HealthCare’s PATHways Clinic

Pregnancy Treated as a Moment for Recovery through UK HealthCare’s PATHways Clinic

By: BREATHE Faculty and Staff
 Jul 26, 2016
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Opioid addiction is a complex medical disorder that impacts the entire nation, but much of the problem is condensed to disparate regions of Kentucky. This is the second installment of a series of articles exploring the work of University of Kentucky researchers and UK HealthCare medical providers who are making progress toward solutions to the epidemic in our state and at large. LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 19, 2016) — As she scooted around a table at the UK HealthCare Polk-Dalton Clinic, Lenn’s volleyball-size baby bump knocked over a soda can.

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Faculty Members Receive Grant for Tobacco-free Ambassadors (TAP) Partnership: Linking K-12 Schools and Community Colleges Project

By: BREATHE Faculty and Staff
 Jul 26, 2016
BREATHE

College of Nursing Professor Ellen Hahn, PhD, RN, FAAN, and College of Education Assistant Professor Mindy Ickes, PhD, recently received $100,000 from the CVS Health Foundation for their Tobacco-free Ambassadors Partnership (TAP): Linking K-12 Schools and Community Colleges project.

Nursing Leaders Inducted as Fellows into the National Academies of Practice

Jul 21, 2016
Faculty Recognition

  UK HealthCare Chief Nursing Officer Colleen Swartz, DNP, MSN, RN, FNAP and Norton Healthcare Senior Vice President and System Chief Nursing Officer Tracy Williams, DNP, RN, FNAP, were inducted as Fellows into the National Academies of Practice (NAP) during the NAP 2016 Annual Meeting & Forum.

Pregnancy Treated as a Moment for Recovery through UK HealthCare’s PATHways Clinic

Jul 19, 2016
Research

Opioid addiction is a complex medical disorder that impacts the entire nation, but much of the problem is condensed to disparate regions of Kentucky. This is the second installment of a series of articles exploring the work of University of Kentucky researchers and UK HealthCare medical providers who are making progress toward solutions to the epidemic in our state and at large. LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 19, 2016) — As she scooted around a table at the UK HealthCare Polk-Dalton Clinic, Lenn’s volleyball-size baby bump knocked over a soda can.

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New Study Examines Use of Multiple Tobacco Products in College Students

By: BREATHE Faculty and Staff
 Jul 18, 2016
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A new study co-authored by College of Nursing Professor Ellen Hahn, PhD, RN, FAAN,  found that roughly 15 percent of college students who had ever used tobacco currently use more than one tobacco product. Polytobacco use (using more than one tobacco product) drives nicotine addiction and can prolong the use of tobacco products, leading to acute and chronic negative health risks such as lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and more.

DNP Student Selected as American Psychiatric Nurses Association Board of Directors Student Scholar

Jul 15, 2016
Student Recognition

DNP student Sooksai Kaewbua, BSN, is one of 15 graduate nursing students in the nation to be selected as an American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) Board of Directors Student Scholar for 2016. She will present her abstract titled “Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain: An Innovative Game to Improve Mental Health by Preventing Cardiovascular Disease” at the APNA 30th Annual Conference in October in Hartford, Ct. in addition to receiving a complimentary membership in the organization for one year.

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