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Communications Committee
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Anne Stiles, Chair
Jo Azzarello
Carol Boswell
Judy Lewis,
Editor- SOJNR
(ex-officio)
Amy Fagan
Editor-Doctoral
Student Web Pages
Leanne Lefler
Lenora Smith
Editor-Southern
Connections
Alison Jones
Montpetit
Assistant Editor
Southern Connections
Nan Smith-Blair
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From
the President
"We
are the change we seek."
 President
Obama said, "Change will not come if we wait for some other person
or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are
the change that we seek." With such a vision for change our
country is changing; our educational and healthcare systems will
change; and change is even occurring in our national professional
organizations. This is an exciting time of opportunity for SNRS
members and it's a time of challenge. During our recent 2009
Conference in Baltimore, change was everywhere-from the 'twitter'
posts coming from all the presentations, to the video streaming of
members that are now posted on YouTube-go to www.youtube.com and put "SNRS" in the
search term and see who's talking now! Drs. Cynthia Russell and Ann
Turner-Henson interviewed senior scientists, conference organizers,
poster presenters, and even our 2009 Distinguished Researcher.
Interdisciplinary science and leadership were themes throughout the
meeting, anchored by Dr. Cathy Gillis's thoughtful keynote of the
barriers and enablers to interdisciplinary science, to Drs. Janet
Allan's and Mark Walker's reflection on paths to academic leadership,
closed by Dr. Kevin Frick's session concerning the economic
implications of research (see the Members Only site for his slides
and commentary.) All the membership and the Board are extremely
grateful to Drs. Russell and Kathryn Montgomery who spear-headed the
planning, and the deans and planning committees from the five
sponsoring Schools of Nursing: University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins
University, Catholic University, Towson University and West Virginia
University for a very successful annual meeting. We also acknowledge
the special help of Delfie Castro, Ann Mehan, and all the Resource
Center staff for a flawless meeting infrastructure.
What else is changing in SNRS? These are tough financial times for
everyone including SNRS. The Board is looking long and hard at the
2009 budget, trying to assure the membership that this organization
will continue to be financially strong and solvent for at least the
next 25 years. As such, we will be conducting a full audit of our
finances to determine exactly where we are and how we can achieve the
change we seek by supporting research and scholarship across the
Southern region. Empowered by the membership at the 2009 Conference
town hall meeting, the Foundation Feasibility Task Force led by Dr.
Mary Walker is exploring the development of a separate foundation
that would direct our research enterprise. Making these changes will
allow us to be more nimble and meet the membership's needs as we move
forward with our strategic plan.
The Board is changing, too. At the Annual Business Meeting, we
welcomed new board members, Vice-president Anne Turner-Henson,
Treasurer Demetrius Porche, Membership-Deborah Jones, and
Awards-Debra Moser and said a grateful good-bye to Drs. Cynthia
Russell, Carolyn Lewis, and Martha Alligood. The Nominating Committee
led by Dr. Patty Gray sponsored a wonderful pre-conference on
succession planning and welcomed new members Drs. Randy Jones and
Donna Neff, and thanked outgoing members Drs. Kay Avant and Doug
Sutton. "We are the change we seek." Find a way to become
involved in SNRS and make change happen!
Elaine J.
Amella, PhD, GNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN President, SNRS
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AACN
Election
Please
join us in congratulating 3 of our former presidents-Donna Hathaway,
Janet Allan, and Mary Walker, who were just re-elected to the AACN
board! Mary said it best when she said, "It is a privilege to
serve there as well as on the SNRS Board." CONGRATULATIONS TO
ALL OF YOU!!
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SOJNR
Update
New Journal Information
We
are pleased with the positive response to the new SOJNR. This
response has come in terms of positive feedback from readers and
Society members, increased submission rate for manuscripts, and
increased interest by SNRS members in serving as peer reviewers. The
first issue of 2009, which focused on qualitative research, had a
record number of manuscripts published. There were more manuscripts
published in this one issue than in any two previous years
combined. Look for the 2009 Conference Abstracts to be
published shortly. The other issues in 2009 will focus on Aging and
on Ethics. Upcoming issues for 2010 are in the planning stage and
include Community Health, Parent-Child, and Psychometrics. If you
have an interest in submitting a paper for any of the topics listed
above [except Aging] or if you have a paper that you'd like to submit
for review, please contact me at: jalewis@vcu.edu.
Best wishes for a productive summer.
Judith A.
Lewis, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, FAAN
Professor Emerita
School of Nursing
Virginia Commonwealth University
Editor
Southern
Online Journal of Nursing Research
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Foundation
Feasibility Task Force
Spring Newsletter Update
Committee
Members are Mary
Walker, Board Member at Large for Development, Loyola
University Chicago, Chair; Janet
Allan, University of Maryland; Jean McSweeney,
University of Arkansas Medical Sciences; Debra Wallace,
University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Martha Hill,
The Johns Hopkins University.
At the direction of the membership at its Business meeting in
Baltimore, MD, on February 13th, 2009, the Committee met regarding
the formation of a 501(c)3 Foundation for the Society. There was
general discussion concerning the direction of the Southern Nursing
Research Society at this time and the strengths and limitations of
retaining a singular 501(c)3 designation as a membership organization
only. In general, the Task Force began its exploratory work with a
discussion of seven key questions:
1.
What is the purpose
and purview of such a Foundation?
2.
What is the linkage
of a Foundation to the SNRS strategic plan/its Charter and Bylaws?
3.
What decisions of
the membership (Bylaws, e.g.) support such an exploration?
4.
What is an
appropriate scope for a regional research group?
5.
What is the
feasibility of a Foundation proposal?
6.
What is the
relationship of a Foundation 501(c)3 to the current 501(c)3?
7.
What are the
anticipated foci, goals, outcomes and impact of such an undertaking
for the Society?
Following expansive discussion
regarding these key questions, the Task Force determined that:
- Funding
the small grants and dissertation awards from operating dollars
is no longer a viable mechanism for assuring long-term stability
of these important SNRS programs.
- Articles
of incorporation of SNRS, membership decisions, and Board
strategic plan support the continued consideration regarding a
Foundation.
- A
separately incorporated, free-standing Foundation is appropriate
for continued Board consideration at this time.
- Resources
to support the ongoing operations of an independent Foundation
would need to be determined once the scope of activities
overseen by the Foundation is determined.
- Elements
included in Function 1A of the current strategic plan could
reasonably constitute the initial work of the Foundation.
- The
Articles of Incorporation intentionally reflect additional
strategic priorities of the Board that could reasonably be
directed toward the Foundation once incorporated.
- Funding
for the current Board priorities reflected in the strategic plan
would require an endowment of approximately $1M in order that
they are fully funded.
Dr. Allan and Dr. Walker will meet separately to
discuss Collaborative Foundation issues including partnerships and
collaborations, SNRS member involvement, and conflicts of interest
presented by the present Foundation proposal. Dr. Wallace and
Dr. McSweeney will meet separately to discussion the actual 501(c)3
Foundation application, requirements for start-up and maintenance,
Foundation Board membership (structure and processes for election),
logistics and costs including operational expenses, and structure an
evaluation plan.
Mary K.
Walker, PhD, RN, FAAN
Director-at-Large/Development;
Task Force
Chair
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Doctoral
Discussions:
A
Communications Forum for PhD Students
Doctoral
students now have a virtual meeting room open 24/7! A student blog
site has been created at snrsdocstudents.wordpress.com. The purpose of the
blog is to stimulate conversations, offer support to fellow students,
and provide a forum for sharing resources and research experiences
among your peers.
Amy Fagan, the student representative of the Communications
Committee, edits and manages the blog and is a doctoral student at
the University of Mississippi Medical Center. "It has been fun
to hear from other students all across the Southeast, and very
helpful to me as they share their research interests and advice,"
she said.
The blog currently has several threads in progress-Introductions,
Pearls for PhD Success, and a Suggestion Box for other topics. To
read comments posted by other students, click on any of the headings
on the page. To post a message yourself, click on "Comments"
under any of the headings. So get started and meet other SNRS
doctoral students-join the blog!
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RIGs
Update
New RIG Chairs and Chairs-elect Take Office
This
is an exciting time as SNRS is moving forward to become an
organization that is more heavily focused around the RIGs. We have a
number of initiatives, including SOJNR RIG-sponsored issues,
RIG-sponsored symposia and individual RIG awards. In the coming year,
we will also be developing policies and procedures for the RIGs, so
this is an exciting time for our leadership. I am pleased to
introduce the following individuals who have recently become a part
of our RIG leadership:
- Minority Health
Chair: Maren Coffman,
PhD, RN, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
- Minority Health
Chair-elect:
Angela
Jukkala, PhD, RN from the University of Alabama
at Birmingham School of Nursing
- Health Promotion
Chair-elect:
Deborah
Jones, PhD, RN from the Johns Hopkins University
School of Nursing
- Education
Chair-elect:
Karen
Karlowicz, RN, MSN, EdD from Old Dominion
University
- Parent-Child Chair: Julie Meaux, PhD, RNC from the
University of Central Arkansas
- Research in Clinical
Settings Chair:
Cathy
Campbell, PhD, APRN-BC from the University of
Virginia
- Psychometrics Chair: Ruth M. Tappen,
EdD, RN, FAAN from Florida Atlantic University
- Psychometrics
Chair-elect:
Eugenia
Millender, Florida Atlantic University
- Academic Nurse
Managed Clinics Chair:
Jennell
Charles, PhD, RN, Clayton State University
Jennifer Wenzel, PhD, RN, CCM
Director of
Research Interest Groups
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RIGs
Call for Volunteers
Are
you looking for an opportunity to provide service and leadership?
The Southern Nursing Research Society (SNRS) is seeking individuals
to fill leadership positions in the Research Interest Groups (RIGs).
The following RIG Chair and Chair-elect positions are currently
available:
Chair
Biobehavioral
Chair-elect
Academic Nurse Managed Clinics
Research in Clinical Settings
Don't miss this opportunity to be a part of our vibrant and growing
nursing research society.
Please note, current roles and responsibilities of RIG Chairs and
Chairs-elect are under development by the SNRS Board. Currently,
Chairs will serve for a two-year term. At the end of the two-year
term, the Chair-elect (formerly known as co-chair) will assume the
Chair position, and a new Chair-elect will be selected.
This is an excellent opportunity and all interested SNRS members are
encouraged to apply. The application process is easy; just send a
brief biosketch and any inquiries to Dr. Jennifer
Wenzel, Director of Research Interest Groups.
Deadline:
May 29, 2009
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RIG
Update: Health Promotion
Welcome from Sheila P. Davis, PhD, RN, FAAN, Chair and
Deborah Jones, PhD, Chair-elect of the Health Promotion Research
Interest Group. The mission of the Health Promotion RIG is: To serve as a conduit for
presentation of health promotion research conducted by nurse
researchers in the southern region, nationally and beyond.
We offer networking opportunities, peer support, and inspiration to
others interested in this area of work and research. We encourage all
members to participate. We welcome all interested parties in our
area of work-researchers, clinicians, academicians, and students to
our RIG. Be sure to sign-up by logging in to the Members-Only section of the SNRS web site and
choose which
RIG(s) to join. There is no fee to participate and you can join up to
three RIGs as part of your membership benefits. Just click on the
topic and the Resource Center will do the rest!
We met at the 2009 Annual SNRS Conference in Baltimore and discussed
the following:
- Development of our
Goals, Purposes, Etc.
- Election of
Chair-elect: Dr. Deborah Jones
- Election of Sharon
Lock as Communication Secretary
- Election of Dr. Carol
Staley-Collins and Dr. Eun-Shim Nahm as List Serve Managers
Our recent activities and/or current projects include
a dedicated health promotion SOJNR issue in 2008 and a dedicated
health promotion symposium at the 2009 conference. We were trail
blazers in both these events! Thanks to all SNRS members who
participated in these endeavors. Presently, we are investigating ways
to make the web site and list serv more dynamic for our members.
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RIG
Update: Community Health
Welcome
from Janice Collins-McNeil, Chair, and Laura Hein, Chair-elect
of the Community Public Health Research Interest Group. The
mission of the Community Public Health Research Interest Group is: To support research that
is relevant, preventive and informs nursing science, practice,
education and policy.
We offer networking opportunities, peer support, and inspiration to
others interested in this area of work and research. We encourage all
members to participate. We welcome all interested parties in our
area of work-researchers, clinicians, academicians, and students to
our RIG. Be sure to sign-up by logging in to the Members-Only section
of the SNRS website and choose which RIG(s) to join. There is no fee
to participate and you can join up to three RIGs as part of your
membership benefits. Just click on the topic link and the Resource
Center will do the rest!
We met at the 2009 Annual SNRS Conference in Baltimore and discussed
the following:
- Mission
Statement:
Working collaboratively RIG members developed and adopted the
following mission statement: "The mission of the Community
Public Health Research Interest Group is to support research
that is relevant, preventive and informs nursing science,
practice, education and policy."
- Web
Page:
It was the consensus of RIG members that we adopt the following
theme: "Mentoring
and supporting community public health researchers."
Research Mentors and their areas of interest are now posted on
our web page.
- Symposium
2010:
RIG members decided the theme for the Community/Public Health
RIG Symposium in 2010 is as follows: "Improving
Health in our Current Economy"
- SOJNR: Community Public
Health special issue due 2010. We need manuscripts (4), Dr.
Carolyn Blue and Dr. Louise Ivanov at the University of North
Carolina Greensboro have agreed to be the guest co-editors for
the special issue. A majority of RIG members have volunteered as
abstract reviewers. The theme for the special issue is: "Meeting the
National Public Health Objectives in all Populations."
We are excited about our upcoming Community/Public
Health symposium to be held in Austin, Texas next year! Please feel
free to contact Jan
Collins-McNeil, PhD, APRN, BC or Laura Hein, PhD, RN, NP-C for more information.
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RIG
Update: Gerontology
WELCOME
TO THE GERONTOLGY RIG!
Hello
and Greetings from our new RIG administration: Leanne Lefler,
PhD, APN, RIG Chair, Saunjoo
"Sunny" Yoon, PhD, RN, and Karen M. Rose,
PhD, RN, RIG Co-Chairs-Elect.
 Leanne
is an Assistant Professor and John A. Hartford Claire M. Fagan Fellow
from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Leanne's research
interest focuses on elders with cardiovascular disease.
Sunny is an Associate Professor and
2001 John A. Hartford Summer Scholar from the University of Florida
with research interests in complementary and alternative therapies
(CAM) for older adults with chronic health problems. Her current
study is focusing on CAM intervention to manage chronic pain and
sleep disturbance in older adults.
 Karen
is an Assistant Professor and John A. Hartford Claire M. Fagan Fellow
from the University of Virginia, conducting research regarding sleep
disturbances in persons with dementia and in their family caregivers.
It is our job to facilitate your SNRS experience by supplying a
network of colleagues. To provide opportunities through SNRS-to share
information, promote evidence-based practice and promote each
other. We also identify nursing leaders in gerontology and are
active in promoting health care policy for elder Americans and
Nursing.
2009 RIG
UPDATE:
We wanted to give all our members an update from our annual
meeting in Baltimore. We are proud to report that we continue to be
the most supported RIG at SNRS! (We have bragging rights because we
have the most annual meeting attendees!)
We re-announced the call for papers for a Gerontology special edition
for the Southern
Online Journal of Nursing Research that was sent out as
an e-blast earlier. We selected a Guest Editor, Dr. Elaine Souder,
PhD and Professor from the University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences to assist Dr. Judith Lewis, the Editor for SOJNR in
reviewing and selecting manuscripts for this edition. All members
were encouraged to submit these manuscripts before March 1, 2009.
We agreed to promote several activities among members of the RIG for
2010. We would like to facilitate the Rising New Investigator Award
again this year. The purpose of this award is to recognize the
contribution of a rising investigator who has conducted
gerontological nursing research, which has the potential to enhance
the science and practice of gerontological nursing. Nominations for
this award will be due in January 2010. We would like to add a Dissertation Award
(this would be for those who graduated during the previous year) and
a Mid-Career
Award in the RIG for 2010. Stay tuned for the call for
nominations and criteria for these awards.
We are not on the SNRS schedule for a symposium for 2010, but several
RIG members wanted to organize a symposium for 2010 to showcase the
work we are doing in the South. If you plan to have a paper
presentation for the 24th Annual Conference in Austin next year,
think about whether you are interested in participating in a
symposium concerning Health Care Challenges of the Next Decade (SNRS
conference theme), Maybe a title such as: "The Challenge of Caring for Aging Baby
Boomers" would be easy to work with. We can get a
committee together to edit/select the abstracts and write the
organization framework for the symposium. Volunteers are welcome.
Our RIG is scheduled to have a symposium for the Conference in 2011
and for a Pre-Conference workshop in 2012. So, think about these
upcoming events as well.
We will plan an annual meeting of our RIG members on February 2-6,
2010 at the Hilton, Austin. Look for e-blasts from the society for
upcoming events, and be sure to register and log into our website.
See you in cyberspace and in Austin!
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RIG
Update: Parent-Child
 Dr.
Julie Meaux is the new Chair of the Parent-Child RIG. Her research
interest is in the development of self-management and coping
strategies for children and adolescents with ADHD. Dr. Meaux is an
Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Central Arkansas
in Conway, Arkansas.
Dr. Robin Bartlett is the Chair-elect of the Parent-Child RIG. Her research
interest is in problem behaviors of children and adolescents. Dr
Bartlett is an Associate Professor at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
 At this year's
Annual meeting of the Southern Nursing Research Society in Baltimore,
UNC-Chapel Hill second year doctoral student, Britt Pados,
was awarded both the Parent/Child Research Interest Group Poster
Award and first place in the Doctoral Student Poster Award. Her
poster was entitled "Heart Rate Variability as an Indicator of Physiologic
Stability During Gentle, Co-Regulated Feeding in the Preterm
Infant." Britt is a second year pre-doctoral fellow in
Interventions to Prevent or Manage Chronic Illness (T32 NR007091) at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing.
Her clinical background is as a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner and her
area of research interest is feeding in infants with complex
congenital heart disease. This was a preliminary study to Britt's
dissertation to determine the usefulness of heart rate variability
(HRV) as a measure of physiologic work during feeding. The study was
a secondary analysis of Dr. Suzanne Thoyre's within-subjects
cross-over design study of a gentle, co-regulated feeding approach to
feeding (K01 NR07668).
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SNRS
2010 Research Conference
2010 Conference Information
The
2010 SNRS Research Conference will be held in beautiful Austin, Texas
where the winters are mild and usually sunny. The Austin Hilton is located within a few short
blocks of the fabulous hike and bike trail that runs along Lady Bird
Lake. Eclectic and artistic boutiques abound in the historical
downtown location.
The 2010 conference theme is "Health Care Challenges of the Next
Decade" with an opening keynote address delivered by Ada Sue
Hinshaw, PhD, RN, FAAN. Please join us in Austin on February 3-6, 2010.
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30th
Video Completes How
to Try This Assessment Series
The
How to Try This assessment series, published in
the American Journal of Nursing and a collaborative project of the
Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU's College of Nursing
and the American Journal of Nursing, is now complete. Started in
October 2007, the Hartford Institute's How to Try This series now
includes 30 topics available as cost-free, Web-based demonstration
videos and companion articles designed to build knowledge and
assessment skills among those caring for older adults. The videos are
unique in that they feature students, practicing nurses, other health
professionals, and patients. Some of these topics include: fall risk
assessment, delirium screening, restraint prevention, and pressure
ulcer prevention.
The How to Try This assessment series showcases best practices and
interdisciplinary approaches and is recommended for associate, baccalaureate,
and graduate nursing programs as well as for practicing nurses. CEs
are available for both the articles and the videos. To view the
videos, go to the Nursing Center's library page.
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