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Volume 24 Issue No. 2
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Spring 2010
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Communications
Committee
Anne
Stiles, Chair
Southern Connections Subcommittee
Lenora
Smith, Editor
Alison
Jones Montpetit
Joy
Bailey, Student Representative
Website Subcommittee
Janice
Anderson
Johnanna
Hernandez
Cherri' L. Shireman, Student Representative
SOJNR
Elaine
Marshall, Interim Editor
Melissa
Batchelor Aselage, Student Representative
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From the President
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 State of the Organization
What
an exciting and challenging time to assume the Presidency of the
Southern Nursing Research Society! I am honored to be serving
in this capacity with such a vibrant, involved membership and a
strong, committed Board. Together, I hope that we can build on
the foundations of the past 25 years of this organization to move us
forward.
The
24th Annual Conference held in Austin, Texas, February 3-6th was a
very successful meeting which afforded attendees the opportunity to
see and hear reports of exciting research being conducted in the
Southern Region and beyond. The planning and the implementation
of the Annual Conference is the work of many people. I would
particularly like to thank the local planning committee chaired by
Dr. Sharon Horner from the University of Texas for the many hours
that she and her committee put into this effort. In addition, I
would like to thank Dr. Anne Turner-Henson, the Vice President of
SNRS, and the Program committee and the staff of the management
company for the efforts that were committed to this endeavor. Without
the efforts of these individuals and many others, the Annual
Conference would not be possible.
The
Annual Conference is also the time when incoming members of the Board
assume their responsibilities and outgoing members of the Board bid
goodbye. Outgoing members of the Board who put in countless
hours in service to the organization and who deserve our thanks are
Mona Shattell, outgoing Secretary, Mary Walker, outgoing Director of
Development, and last but certainly not least, Elaine Amella,
outgoing President. Our organization has benefited immensely
from their service and I am grateful to each for their time and
commitment.
If
you attended the 2010 Annual Conference and the Business Meeting, you
are aware that the Society has been affected by the economic
downturn. The Board of Directors continues to monitor the
budget to ensure fiscal solvency. In another part of this newsletter, Dr. Demetrius Porche, Treasurer, reports on the state of our finances and measures that have been taken to ensure the fiscal health of the Society. One of the measures suggested at the Annual Conference was
the appointment of a Task Force to examine our journal, the Southern
Online Journal of Nursing Research. This Task Force will
examine the purpose, intended audience, direction, feasibility and
costs of continuing SOJNR. The Task Force will report findings
to the Board by July 15th.
Another
new, exciting development is the establishment of the Student Network,
to engage the student members of the organization, provide feedback
to the Board and committees, and develop future leaders, not only of
SNRS, but as leaders in the discipline of nursing. This highly
motivated group, co-chaired by Ms. Jeannie Rodriquez (djrodri@uab.edu)
and Ms. Britt Pados, met for the first time at the 2010 Annual
Conference and is moving ahead with organizing themselves and
developing a mission statement and goals. The Secretary of the
Student Network is Ms. Kristin Barbee and Chair Elect is Ms. Connie
Cephus. Members of the Student Network serve on a number of
committees including Communications, Program, Membership,
Bylaws/Policies and Procedures, Development, and Finance.
SNRS
will be celebrating its 25th anniversary next year beginning with the
Annual Meeting in Jacksonville, FL, February 16th-19th, 2011.
Plans are underway to celebrate this event with a gala, recognition
of Founders and Past Presidents, and other special events and
sessions. Make plans now to attend the Annual Meeting to
celebrate with all of us.
Marti Rice, PhD, RN
President
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Treasurer's Report
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 Show
Me the Money
The
Southern Nursing Research Society Finance Committee plans to continue
to closely monitor the society's financial status. Our committee will
be analyzing the discussion that occurred during the Reference Hearing
meeting at the Annual Conference. This information will be utilized in
future budget planning and recommendations proposed to the SNRS Board
of Directors. I am pleased to introduce our Finance Committee members
for the upcoming year: Marti Rice, Patty Gray, Mary Walker, Ptlene
Minick, and Janet Foster.
At the present time, we are continuing to analyze the 2010 Annual
Meeting expenses and revenue. The majority of the 2010 Annual Meeting
expenses will be reflected on the April financial statements; however,
the preliminary projections are positive. At this time, the preliminary
projections indicate a potential profit on the 2010 Annual meeting. As
of January, the actualized income was $197,762 and the actualized
expenses were $179,978. Please be reminded that all expenses from the
annual conference have not been realized to date. The actual income and
expenses with the expected profit from our 2010 Annual Meeting will be
provided in my next report to the membership. However, this is very
good news at this time.
In the big picture, our total assets are $408,696 which is down from
last year's total assets at this time of $413,161. This reduction is
primarily due to reductions in our investment accounts. We are
continuing to closely monitor our investment accounts' productivity.
Our net income year-to-date is $211,671 compared to $181,733 last year
at this time. This potential increase is attributed to the increased
income from our 2010 Annual Meeting that had a strong conference
registration. The total direct and general expense year-to-date is
$40,199 which comprises 13% of the annual budget at this time.
Demetrius Porche, DNS, PhD, APRN,
FAANP, FAAN
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Turning the Pages
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In February
2010, Judith Lewis, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, FAAN announced her resignation as
the editor of the Southern
Online Journal of Nursing Research (SOJNR) at the 2010
Annual SNRS Conference in Austin, Texas. During her tenure as editor of
SOJNR,
the publication flourished and was referred to as a "jewel in the
crown of SNRS" by past president, Elaine Amella, PhD, RN,
FAAN. A task force has been formed to examine the future
direction of SOJNR,
feasibility and costs of continuing SOJNR,
as well as reviewing the purpose and intended audience for the journal.
The report will be presented to the SNRS Board of Directors on July 15,
2010. Until that time, the Board is committed to publishing editions
through 2011. After much searching, an interim director was found, Dr.
Elaine Marshall of Georgia Southern University. We will learn more
about her in our next Southern
Connections newsletter. Research Interest Groups guest
editors have been secured for topical areas in upcoming editions.
Upcoming special edition topics include: parent-child (guest editor:
Pam Shiao), psychometrics (guest editor: Ruth Tappen), and minority
health (guest editor: Maren Coffman). Manuscripts are encouraged
and information on deadlines, manuscript and submission guidelines can
be found at: http://snrs.org/publications/SOJNR_articles2/CallForManuscripts.html
Melissa Aselage,
MSN, RN, FNP-BC
2009-2011 John
A. Hartford Foundation BAGNC Scholar
SOJNR Student
Representative, SNRS Communications Committee
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Save the Date!
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25th Anniversary SNRS
Annual Conference
February
16-19, 2011, Jacksonville, FL
Abstracts
are now being accepted for the 2011 conference; view the guidelines
through the links below.
Submit Your Abstract
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Student Wins Big at
24th Annual Conference
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Maren
Coffman, PhD, UNCC
The
winner of the Minority Health RIG student poster award at the 24th
annual conference was Elizabeth Ann Davis Lee. The winner was announced
at the Minority Health RIG meeting and Ms. Lee was awarded a
certificate and monetary prize.
Ms. Lee is a first year PhD student at the University of Tennessee
Health Science Center in Memphis. She has experience working with
children in public health, newborn nursery, pediatric, and emergency
settings. She currently works as a nurse educator at Harding University
in Searcy, Arkansas, and volunteers as an APN at a free clinic. She is
a member of Sigma Theta Tau, the National League for Nursing, and is a
Cardiac Care Associate with the American College of Cardiology.
For her project, Ms. Lee worked as a co-investigator with Dr. Patricia
Cowan's NIH-funded research project, Markers
of Cardiovascular Risk in African-American Adolescents. The
goal of the project was to compare cardiac risk factors in overweight
and normal weight African-American (AA) adolescents 11 to 19 years of
age with measures of adiponectin and endothelial inflammation and
thrombotic markers, including intercellular cell adhesion molecule-1
(ICAM-1), plasminogen activator inhibitor-1(PAI-1), and E-selectin.
As expected, blood pressure was lower and protective adiponectin was
higher in normal weight children. Unexpected findings were higher
levels of ICAM-1, PAI-1, and E-selectin in normal weight AA
adolescents, indicating they still may be at higher risk for
development of diabetes and cardiovascular events despite the lack of
obesity. Further study is needed to explore the presence of first
degree relatives with diabetes or other genetic factors that may
contribute to higher levels of these biomarkers of endothelial
dysfunction.
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Community and
Public Health Outreach
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Community
Health RIG Members,
Betsy and I wanted to personally extend a welcome to all returning and new
members of the Community and Public Health Research Interest Group
within SNRS. We would also like to extend invitations to
interested researchers, students, and academicians from other areas of
practice, so if you know of anyone interested, direct them to either
Betsy or me. This research group is committed to supporting relevant
community-based research aimed at informing nursing science, practice,
education and policy. As the mission of the RIG is to support other
nurses in their endeavors to enhance community and public health
research and nursing, we welcome suggestions, ideas, and thoughts from
each of you as we move towards our goal of promoting this interest
group.
As the mission of this RIG is to support relevant research, one area
that we feel needs to be addressed is student support for achievement
in research. It is the thought that this could be accomplished through
the development of a student "award" for excellence in
research. It is my understanding that this topic was discussed at the
recent SNRS RIG meeting and that having a prize for the best community-
or public health-based poster would be an ideal way to acknowledge
students' excellent work. We think that providing the student with a
monetary prize is an excellent way to introduce this RIG to students,
promote the mission of the RIG, and promote the RIG in general. We
would like to offer a $500 prize to one student who demonstrates
excellence in community and public health nursing research.
However, to do this we need your help. If anyone has ideas or
suggestions for establishing this award to be given annually, please
share them with us.
As chair and chair-elect, we would also like to take this opportunity
to thank Janice Collins- McNeil and Laura Hein for their leadership
over the past year. The RIG-sponsored symposium was well received and
attended. Their work to make sure that this RIG was profiled at SNRS in
Austin is greatly appreciated. Betsy and I look forward to working with
each of you this year and another great SRNS meeting in Jacksonville in
2011!
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ACHNE Conference
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Betsy
and Sarah would like to know if anyone is going to be attending the ACHNE Conference in
June. If you know you are going to be there or if there is a
possibility that you will be attending the conference, please email
Betsy Thomas at betsy.thomas@ttuhsc.edu, particularly
if you are interested in getting together.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Thomas, PhD,
MPH, RNC
Texas Tech
Health Sciences Center
Chair-elect,
Community & Public Health RIG
betsy.thomas@ttuhsc.edu
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Doctoral Student
Corner
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Greetings
from the SNRS Student Network. My name is Jeannie Rodriguez and I am
co-chairing the SNRS student network this year with Britt Pados.
At the annual conference for SNRS in February, the student
members were approached by the Board about forming a more formal
student group within SNRS. A meeting was held with the student
members present and officers were elected. Along with Britt and
myself, Connie Cephus was elected as chair-elect and Kristen Barbee
was elected as secretary.
The name SNRS student network was selected for the group. After
the conference, the Board indicated that the SNRS Student Network
would be considered a special committee within SNRS. Britt
and I began working on a mission statement and strategic goals for the SNRS
Student Network.
We heard the students at the annual conference say that we as students
need more networking opportunities. SNRS had recently decided to
move discussion postings from the student page on the SNRS
website to Facebook. If you
have a Facebook account, please consider becoming a fan of SNRS.
Once you are a fan, you can access the SNRS page through
Facebook. There you will find a blog and discussion postings to
join or an opportunity to create more discussion postings. I have
already received feedback from many of you that you have been actively
discouraged from joining Facebook by your employers. Please know that
we are working on other opportunities for discussions within the
student network for those not on Facebook. Thank you for your
patience concerning this matter.
The student network also expressed an interest in educational
opportunities for student members of SNRS. We would like to take
this opportunity to solicit your ideas for topics that would be
relevant to you. Some suggestions have included how to put
together a CV, finding out what deans are looking for in an
applicant for a faculty position, etc. The Board has expressed an
interest in providing webinars for members, but we are also
looking for conference ideas specific to students as well.
Please know that as your representatives, we are eager to hear from
you. We would like this to be a group that engages students in
research and gives students the opportunity to learn from
seasoned researchers as well as each other. We all look forward
to working with you this year.
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Doctoral
Student Newsflash!
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We have
a new blog for SNRS doctoral students. Find it here:
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Common Interests?
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Joy
Bailey
NINR Funding Announcements
Two Requests
for Applications (RFA) on the NINR web site caught our eye. The first
is for promoting diversity in research (RFA OD-10-013, released 3/5/2010
and due 5/5/2010, the other for translational research (RFA RM10-001)
released 1/26/2010 and closes 10/15/2010. Links are available through
the NINR web site.
SNRS has links to funding
organizations on its website. Check out the doctoral student's link.
Many of them are listed there. Make sure you look for application
deadlines and eligibility and give yourself ample time to submit your
application.
ANA Doctor of
Nursing Practice Position Statement
The ANA has released a new position statement on the doctor of nursing
practice (DNP) degree. They recommend that the DNP be
"recognized as a terminal practice degree to prepare nurses for
the complex clinical practice environment." By the time we
go to press it will have been too late for you to comment; however,
please follow this link to
read what has been released.
Call for Announcements
Do you or any
of your colleagues have something to be proud of? Let us know about
awards, special appointments, publications etc. and we will announce it
in our quarterly newsletter. Let your colleagues know what you
are doing! E-mail: jeharrisb@gmail.com
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