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A recently launched project called LINK is connecting clinical nurses from NewYork-Presbyterian who have research ideas with academic nurses and statistical support from Columbia University School of Nursing. The LINK partnership builds upon existing relationships between the two institutions.

 research team led by Patricia Stone, PhD, Centennial Professor of Health Policy at Columbia University School of Nursing, has been awarded a one-year, $375,000 contract from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study the barriers to nursing homes’ reporting of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) and multidrug-resistant organisms into the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), as well as the resources needed to overcome those barriers. The NHSN is an internet-based infection-tracking system managed by the CDC.

Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD is a researcher and professor at Columbia University School of Nursing.

Despite having frequent symptoms of undiagnosed asthma, low-income urban adolescents do not seek medical care even when it is available to them, according to a new study led by Columbia School of Nursing researcher Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD. Adolescents cite an average of four reasons for not seeking care, while two psychological factors, asthma-related anxiety and depression, increase the odds that they will seek asthma care.