Stephanie Meyers - President and Rebecca Tsusaki - President-Elect, Travis Laqua

award winner

 

Award Winners

Student Awards
BSN - Belinda Ponder
MSN - Travis Laqua
DNP - Shannon Pearce
PhD - Kristen Starnes-Ott

Member Excellence Awards
Education - Joanne Hickey
Practice - Rodney Lester
Research - Janet  Meininger
Community - Stephanie Meyers

 

 

Zeta Pi Chapter Accolades:

 

Congratulations and thanks to Dr. Cathy Rozmus and staff.  HRSA has awarded our SON with over $65,000 for professional nursing traineeships.

 

Congratulations! This July, Dr. Bergstrom will be inducted into the newly created Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame .

 

Congratulations to Dr. Terese Verklan on her acceptance as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She will be inducted during the 37th Annual Meeting & Conference November 11-13, at the Grand Hyatt Washington, in Washington, DC.

 

Congratulations to Lorraine Frazier, PhD, RN, FAAN, Nancy B. Willerson Distinguished Professor in Nursing and Chair, Department of Nursing Systems. She has been awarded an equipment supplement to her R01, “Interactions among Depressive Symptoms and Genetic Influences on Cardiac Outcomes,” for real-time PCR to establish a high throughput laboratory site in the state-of-the-art Biosciences Laboratory in the CNR.

 

Congratulations to Lorraine Frazier, PhD, RN, FAAN, Nancy B. Willerson Distinguished Professor in Nursing and Chair, Department of Nursing Systems. For her expertise in genetics nursing research and previous review experience, Dr. Frazier has been invited to serve on the NRRC review panel at the National Institutes of Health on June 17, 2010. The NRRC is a standing Study Section in the NINR, and it is the committee that reviews Fellowship (F) and Career Award (K) applications submitted to NINR for their scientific and technical merit.

 

Dr. Lorraine Frazier will be appointed the Chair, Nursing Systems effective May 10, 2010.  Dr. Frazier has been serving as Interim Chair and has done an outstanding job.

 

Belinda Ponder is one of the graduating RN students who has just been selected  as one of the top 25 nurses in Houston by the Houston Chronicle. There were 1700 nominations! She is a hospice nurse with the Memorial Hermann Healthcare system and is truly an outstanding person and nurse.

 

 

 

Zeta Pi Chapter Presentations, Publications and Awards:

 

 

Dr.  Freeman has two chapters related to mental health services in Writing DNP Clinical Case Narratives edited by Smolowitz, Honig, and Reinisch, published by Springer Publishing Company in 2010.

 

Casarez, R., Engebretson, J. & Ostwald, S. (July/August 2010). Spiritual Practices in Self-management of Diabetes in African Americans . Holistic Nursing Practice, 227-237.

 

Armstrong, T.S. (2010).  Chapter 49: Central Nervous System Cancers in  Yabro, C.H., Wujcik, D., & Holmes Gobel, B (eds), Cancer Nursing: Principles and Practice, 7 th ed.   Jones and Bartlett:  Boston, pp. 1146-1187.

 

Liu, Y, Shete, S., Etzel, C.J., Scheurer, M., Alexiou, G, Armstrong, G., Tsavachidis, S., Liang, F.W., Gilbert, M., Aldape, K., Armstrong, T, Houston, R., Hosking, F., Robertson, L., Ziao, Y., Wiencke, J., Wrensch, M., Andersson, U., Melin, B.S., & Bondy, M. (2010). Polymorphisms of LIG4, BTBD2, HMGA2, and RTEL1 genes involved in the double-strang break repair pathway predict glioblastoma survival.  Jouirnal of Clinical Oncology, 28 (14); 2467-2474.

 

Missildine, K., Bergstrom, N., Meininger, J., Richards,K.,  Fore­man, M., (2010). Case Studies: Is the sleep of hospitalized elders re­lated to delirium? . Medsurg Nursing, 19(1), 39 - 46.

Each of these faculty had an article in the current issue of Clinical Scholars Review:

 

The Journal of Doctoral Nursing Practice.

Dr. Mackey: “Control Practice Growth: Maximize First Visits, See Fewer Patients, and

 

Improve Practice Income”

Dr. Lindenberg: “Medication Safety in the Elderly: Translating Research Into Practice”