Publications, Awards, and Other News February 2021

Publications

• Adriana Arcia and Maureen George were the authors of “Reference Range Number Line Format Preferred by Adults for Display of Asthma Control Status,” published in The Journal of Asthma.
• Billy Caceres and Kathleen Hickey were the authors of “Examining Sleep Duration and Sleep Health Among Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Adults: Findings from NHANES (2005–2014), published in Behavioral Sleep Medicine.
• Kristine Kulage, Patricia Stone, and Arlene Smaldone ’03 were the authors of “Supporting Dissertation Work Through a Nursing PhD Program Federal Grant Writing Workshop,” published in the Journal of Professional Nursing.
• Lusine Poghosyan and Jianfang Liu were among the authors of “State Policy Change and Organizational Response: Expansion of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Regulations in New York State,” published in Nursing Outlook.

Presentations

• Suzanne Bakken presented several virtual talks: “Information Visualization for Underserved Populations as Poetical Science,” at the Grand Rounds hosted by the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah, on Jan. 7, 2021; “N3C and Nursing Science: Opportunities and Synergies,” at the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C): “Let’s Get Nurse Scientists involved!” on Jan. 15, 2021; “Advancing Health Equity Through Informatics Research, Training, and Publishing,” at the Health Equity Lecture Series for the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University, on Jan. 20, 2021; and “Advancing Health Equity Through Informatics Research and Training: Researcher, Educator, and Editor Perspectives,” at the Center for Health Policy and Equity, George Mason University, on Jan. 28, 2021.
• Kellie Bryant presented “Overcoming During a Pandemic: Identifying and Vetting Online Resources,” at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH), held virtually on Jan. 19, 2021.
• Amanda J Hessels presented “APIC Research Toolkit: Research 101,” at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Chapter Leaders Meeting, held virtually on Dec. 10, 2020.
• Amanda J Hessels, Cara Thurman Johnson, and Elaine Larson presented “Relationships among Patient Safety Climate, Standard Precautions, Healthcare Worker and Patient Outcomes,” at the AcademyHealth 13th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, held virtually on Dec. 16, 2020.
• Amanda J. Hessels, Nancy Spear Owen, Kellie Bryant, and Cara Thurman Johnson presented “Development, Dissemination, and Evaluation of Personal Protective Equipment for COVID-19: A Virtual Simulation Training Toolkit,” at the AcademyHealth 13th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, held virtually on Dec. 15, 2020.

Awards and Honors

• Gregory Alexander was awarded the 2021 Midwestern Nursing Research Society’s (MNRS) Health Systems, Policy, and Informatics (HSPI) Research Interest Group’s (RIG) Senior Investigator Award by the Midwestern Nursing Research Society.
• Billy Caceres and Kasey Jackman ’17 are the recipients of a Seed Funding Award from the Columbia University Data Science Institute for their study titled, “mHealth-Based Data Science Approach to Examine the Association of Minority Stressors with Sleep Health in Black and/or Latinx Sexual and Gender Minority Adults.” This one-year study, funded for $75,000, will use data science techniques to leverage consumer sleep technology and ecological momentary assessments to study sleep health in Black and Latinx sexual and gender minority adults.
• Amanda Hessels served as a contributor/co-author to the International Safety Center’s Sharps Injury Prevention Stakeholder Group (2020) publication, Moving the Sharps Safety in Healthcare Agenda Forward in the United States: 2020 Consensus Statement and Call to Action. She also served as an invited international expert participant in “Strengthening tRansparent Reporting of reseArch on uNfinished Nursing CARE―RANCARE Reporting Guideline Delphi Study,” presented by the University of Basel, Switzerland, and Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus.
• Nancy King Reame was credentialed by the Florida Medical Reserve Corps to serve as a nurse-volunteer and assist with the COVID vaccinations in Broward County, Florida.
• Jingjing Shang is the recipient of an Intramural Pilot Grant award funded by the Columbia School of Nursing Office of Scholarship & Research Development (OSR) for her study titled, “Development and Testing of the Palliative Care Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Confidence in Home Health Care (PC-KAC in HHC) Questionnaires.” This one-year study, funded for $10,000, aims to address the rising need for palliative care in home health care (HHC) due to the complex patient population and incentives to avoid rehospitalization.
• Jiyoun Song ’20 is the recipient of an Intramural Pilot Grant award funded by the Columbia School of Nursing Office of Scholarship & Research Development (OSR) for her study titled, “MC-ICON (Clinical Meaningful Concept In Communication.” This one-year study, funded for $7,300, will allow Song to team with her mentor, Maxim Topaz, to extend earlier and ongoing data science methods and explore a previously untapped large and potentially very informative data source: verbal communication between home health care (HHC) nurses and patients.