Sharon Hewner, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor at the UB School of Nursing has been selected as the 2012 recipient of UB’s Teaching Innovation Award.   Dr. Hewner’s innovative “real world case scenario” approach to teaching patient safety and quality improvement greatly enriched students’ engagement and learning, and has provided a model for inter-professional education.  She will be receiving her award at the Celebration of Faculty & Staff Excellence to be held on Wednesday, October 3^rd, 3:30 pm in the Drama Theater in the Center for the Arts and all are invited to attend.

Quality clinical learning environments are crucial to student education and clinical learning and are influenced by both academic and nursing service factors. The University at Buffalo School of Nursing implemented an innovative academic–service partnership model for clinical education of students called a Dedicated Education Unit (DEU). Study published in the Journal of Professional Nursing July-August 2012.

Carla Jungquist, PhD, FNP, Assistant professor of nursing has written a book chapter in  “Sleep Disorders and Sleep Promotion in Nursing Practice” Edited by Nancy S. Redeker and Geoffry Phillips McEnany. New York City, Springer Publishing Company.  The book has won an AJN Book of the Year Award for 2011.

Yu-Ping Chang, UB assistant professor of nursing and first author on research recently published in the Journal of Aging Studies, examined the angst that arises for Chinese family caregivers who can no longer look after elders with advanced dementia.

New Study Indicates Physical Environment, Workgroup Cohesion Play Significant Roles in Nurses’ Ratings of Quality of Patient Care

While nurse-to-patient ratios are widely recognized as an important factor in determining the quality of patient care, those ratios are not always easy to change without significant cost and investment of resources. What’s more, the projected nursing shortage will make it even more difficult for hospitals to increase nurse staffing. A study published in the current issue of Health Care Management Review indicates that there are other aspects of registered nurses’ (RNs) work environments that RNs perceive can also have a significant impact on the quality of care they deliver.