8th Annual Research Day Poster Awards

Awards

DNP Student Poster Award Winners

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1st Place

  • Chris Giarratani, “Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to the Utilization of Spinal Anesthesia for Patients Undergoing Total Hip Arthroplasty Among Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists Practicing in New York State.” 

2nd Place

  • Sarah Nalbach, “Enhancing Transgender Care During the Perioperative Period Through Education for Certified Nurse Anesthetists.”

3rd Place

  • Sheva Serhofer, Jane Jeffrie Seley and Sharon Hewner, “Diabetes Technology Policies: A Retrospective Descriptive Analysis of Policy Quality and Update Based on Current Best-Practices.”
  • Nicholas Powell, “An Educational In-Service on the Environmental Effect of Anesthetic Gases.”
  • Katie Grosner, Carla Jungquist and Christopher Barrick, “Enhancing Patient Access to Opioid-Free Anesthesia Through Multidisciplinary Protocols.”
  • Rachel Martin, Diane Loomis and Grace Dean, “Predictors of Quality of Life in Adult Lung Cancer Patients and Survivors in the Outpatient Setting: A Pooled Secondary Analysis.”

PhD Student Poster Award Winners

1st Place

  • Kathryn Ledwin and Rebecca Lorenz, “The Impact of Nurse-Led Community-Based Models of Care on Hospital Admission Rates in Heart Failure Patients: An Integrative Review.”

2nd Place

  • Cristina de Rosa, Yanjun Zhou, Amy Lyons, Audrieanna Raciti, Margaret Doerzbacher, Chia-Hui Chen and Yu-Ping Chang, “Experiences Among Family Members of Nursing Home Residents During the COVID Pandemic.”

3rd Place

  • Esther Farley, “Whole Food Plant-Based Eating in Obesity Reduction for Women: A Review of the Literature.”
  • Audrieanna Raciti and Yu-Ping Chang, “Experiences of Long-Term Care Residents During the COVID Pandemic.”

Community Partner Poster Award Winners

  • Karen Konikoff and Mary Rhinehart, “Honoring the Most Trusted Profession, Registered Nurses" (ECMC).

Faculty Poster Award Winners

1st Place

  • Amy Hequembourg, Young Sik Seo and Yu-Ping Chang, “Concurrent Opioid and Other Substance Use among Sexual Minority Youth.”

2nd Place

  • Darryl Somayaji and Young Sik Seo, “Factors Contributing to Lung Cancer Disparities across New York State Counties: A Lens through Multivariate Clustering.”

3rd Place

  • Catherine Mann, Kelly Foltz-Ramos and Patricia Ohtake, “Implementation of a Virtual Interprofessional Education Forum to Develop IPEC Core Competency, Attitudes, and Skills.”

Ellen Volpe Poster Award Winners

1st Place

DNP

  • Michael Ando, “Examining the Perceptions of Anesthesia Providers Concerning Perioperative Critical Incidents and the Feasibility of a Stress Management Protocol.”

PhD

  • Leann Balcerzak and Yu-Ping Chang, “The Use of Virtual Reality in Mindfulness Interventions: Applications and Health Outcomes.”

Faculty

  • Jennifer Livingston and Weijun Wang, Ellen Volpe Memorial Award, “Pathways from Peer Victimization to Adolescent Alcohol Use.”

2nd Place

DNP

  • Christina Strauss, “An Educational Toolkit for Doctor of Nursing Practice Program Coordinators and Directors for Educating Future DNP Prepared Nurses on Care of Transgender Individuals.”

PhD

  • Amanda Anderson, Donna Gatti and Sharon Hewner, “Program Evaluation: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Wicked Problem Impact Project Launch.”

Published September 30, 2021

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