The Hillman Scholars in Nursing Innovation convened the first in-person meeting since 2019 in Washington D.C. on June 3, 2022. The program began with opening remarks by Executive Director of the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation, Ahrin Mishan, and…
The UNC-CH Scholars engaged in an international dialogue on topics such as recruiting and retaining underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities into nursing PhD programs, nurses and nursing assistants stress and coping during Covid, and Namibian nurses job attitudes. Latesha Harris…
Latesha K. Harris, BSN, RN, is the first author of “Police Violence and Black Women’s Health,” published in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners. Harris’ article aims to address police violence, a byproduct of structural racism, to create safer and healthier communities. She…
“Positive psychological states and stress responses in caregivers of adults receiving an allogeneic bone marrow transplant,” Kelly R. Tan, PhD, RN, AERO Small grant recipient final report. Caregivers are a salient support system to patients with cancer. Caregivers provide not…
by Dr. Jessica Marsack (UMICH '18) | December 10, 2021 As Hillman Scholars in Nursing Innovation alumni, Dr. Megan Czerwinski (UMICH '20) and I were originally interested in hosting a more targeted event focused on a hackathon to improve the environmental…
Nina A. Juntereal (PENN '24) has been awarded two grants for her PhD thesis entitled, “A Longitudinal Descriptive Study of Antenatal Milk Expression and Milk Supply in Mothers of Infants with Congenital Surgical Anomalies”. The first grant is from the…
by, John F. Seman, Program Coordinator, Penn Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation | October 21, 2021 Current scholars, Cassis Boateng and Kierra Foley will present their projects and what they learned through the Design Thinking process at a Hillman…
Student nurses work on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic By Kyle Ingram | May 3, 2021 | 7:54pm EDT | Reprinted with permission from The Daily Tar Heel As general care floors in hospitals turned into COVID-19 triages,…
Gillian I. Adynski, PhD, RN (UNC-CH '20), Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program, Duke University, litynski@email.unc.edu. June 11, 2021 | This week I am taking one of those rare breaks from academia where I am spending time with family…
Nurse-Patient Assignments Designed to Address Health Disparities | June 17, 2021 | Andrew M. Dierkes, PhD, RN (PENN '18), Assistant Professor, Acute & Tertiary Care, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, AMD323@pitt.edu. Decades of nursing health services and policy research…