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  • Columbia Nursing Study Finds Significant Time and Costs Demands for Nurse Researchers to Prepare and Submit NIH Grant Applications

    October 12, 2015

    In the first known study of its kind, researchers at Columbia University School of Nursing have found that individuals involved in nursing research spent as much as the equivalent of four 40-hour weeks and $270,240 in faculty and staff salary and associated costs preparing and submitting a single successful National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant application for funds to conduct their research.

  • Moving the Agenda Forward for Nursing and Midwifery Clinical Research in Southern and Eastern African Countries

    October 12, 2015

    A milestone conference brought together nurse and midwifery leaders from 13 sub-Saharan African nations with the goal of creating an action plan that identifies knowledge gaps in clinical care.

  • Grants, Faculty Publications, and Other News October 2015

    October 7, 2015

    Grants, Publications, and Other News October 2015

  • Nurses Are the Eyes and Ears of Health Care

    October 7, 2015

    Pat Stone on the role that real world comparative and economic research plays in forming public policy, helping prevent adverse events, and improving the quality of patient care overall.  

  • Supporting LGBT Elders

    September 21, 2015

    Gabler works with elder LGBT patients like Robert as part of the e-linc initiative (Elder LBGT Interprofessional Collaborative Care Program) led by Columbia Nursing, which aims to eliminate health disparities in New York City’s LGBT elder population. Jeffrey Kwong, DNP, director, Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Program, secured a $1.5 million cooperative agreement from Health Resources and Service Administration earlier this year to help address common medical and mental health needs of the aging LGBT population. 

  • "¿Cómo se siente?"

    September 10, 2015

    To help nurses, researchers and other health care providers trying to improve communication about health with and within Spanish-speaking populations, Columbia Nursing PhD student Samantha Stonbraker identified and summarized 19 validated methods that can be used to measure health literacy among Latinos in clinical and research settings. Her research, “Tools to Measure Health Literacy Among Spanish Speakers: An Integrative Review of the Literature,” was recently published in the journal Patient Education and Counseling.  

  • Caring for Transgender Patients, Body and Mind

    September 10, 2015

    Walter Bockting is one of the world’s leading researchers on transgender health.

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  • Grants, Faculty Publications, and Other News September 2015

    September 10, 2015

    Grants, Faculty Publications and Other News, September 2015 

  • Is Isolation Effective as a Precaution to Prevent MDRO Infection in Nursing Homes?

    September 8, 2015

    nfections are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in nursing homes with 3.8 million healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) occurring annually, contributing to nearly 400,000 deaths and as much as $2 billion in hospitalization costs. 

  • Professor Bakken named IOM Nurse Scholar in Residence

    September 1, 2015

    (NEW YORK, NY, September 1, 2015) Suzanne Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI has been chosen as the 2015-2016 Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in Residence at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies.  

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