Save the Date: Conducting Rigorous Mixed Methods Research

Date: Friday, May 11
Time: 8:00am – 4:00pm
Yale School of Nursing
400 West Campus Drive
Orange, CT

Sponsored by Yale School of Nursing, Yale School of Public Health and the
Center for International Research on AIDS

Featuring

Michael Fetters, Family Medicine Researcher & Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan Mixed Methods Program

Vicki Plano Clark, Professor, School of Education, University of Cincinnati

 

Leslie Curry, Senior Research Scientist & Lecturer, Yale School of Public Health

Northeast Regional Telehealth Conference

The Northeast Telehealth Resource Center is hosting its fourth annual Regional Telehealth Conference in Portland, ME on June 5-6.

Join colleagues from across the eight-state NETRC region (New England, New Jersey, and New York) and beyond to share best practices, discover innovation, and create new opportunities. Will 2018 be the inflection point we’ve been working towards? Don’t miss this year’s discussion as we look to optimize value, enhance engagement, and revolutionize health care access.

For more details visit https://conference.netrc.org/ or contact Diane Campbell at dianec@mcdph.org

4th Annual Healthy Aging – Living Well Forum

Friday, April 6, 2018, 9am – 1:30pm
UMass Lowell North Campus
Saab Emerging Technologies & Innovation Center
40 University Avenue, Lowell, MA 01854

The Center for Gerontology Research & Partnerships at the University of Massachusetts Lowell presents the 4th Annual Healthy Aging – Living Well Forum, featuring keynote speaker Michael E. Festa, Esq., director of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Massachusetts. He will discuss “The CARE Act: It’s the Law,” which was adopted by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in November 2017. The Caregiver Advise, Record, Enable (CARE) Act supports family caregivers and their loved ones being treated in hospitals as they transition to home.

Please RSVP to Nursing@uml.edu. More information can be found here.

 

 

 

Public Service Endowment Grant 2018 competition

The UMass Amherst Public Service Endowment Grant 2018 competition is now open, with a submission deadline of April 17, 2018.  These are internal grants of up to $15,000 for special projects that will increase the capacity of the campus for mutually beneficial engaged scholarship and outreach. Please note that applications are accepted from all sectors of the campus community, and all full-time faculty and staff are eligible to apply.

The program website http://www.umass.edu/research/public-service-endowment-grant provides the request for proposals, submission instructions and forms, and examples of past projects.

Project Star Bright

Military Family Group
Mondays starting April 9th and ending May 28th, 2018
11:30am to 1pm
CSO Offices at 491 Main St. in Athol

The experiences of the active duty or veteran military member can have an effect on the entire family. Children can have an especially challenging time managing the changes in their lives. Project STAR BRIGHT provides counseling and parent support groups designed specifically for active or veteran military members, their spouses and their children.

This group will focus on providing support to caregivers of children who have been affected by stress, loss, or grief related to their families military status. Caregivers will receive support and skills to respond to their children’s emotional, behavioral, and social needs. The group is led by Clinical & Support Options staff with military backgrounds. Any caregiver of a child with an active duty or veteran family member is eligible. All services are completely FREE and light snacks will be served.

To register for this group, please contact Agnes Browne, PsyD.
413-582-0471 ext. 5087 or
Abrowne@csoinc.org

College of Nursing 2018 Spring Seminar Series: “Preventing patient harm through nurse decision making and patient engagement”

Presenter: Dr. Patricia Gazarian
Date: March 6, 2018
Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Location: Skinner Hall, Room 101

The fourth talk in the College of Nursing’s Spring Seminar Series will be presented by Dr. Patricia Gazarian, Associate Professor in the Department of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Boston and an alumni of our PhD program.

Dr. Gazarian’s program of research is focused on preventable patient harms, specifically the role of patient engagement and nurse decision making.  She is also interested in how the patient experiences dignity and respect during hospitalization, including loss of dignity and respect as a preventable harm. She is an expert in the use of cognitive task analysis and the critical decision method as ways to understand the cognitive requirements of clinical work and has used these methods to understand deterioration among hospitalized patients.

Her population of interest is adults and elders in acute and critical care environments.

Registration: 2018 Ounce of Prevention Conference

Registration is now open for the 2018 Ounce of Prevention Conference, Working Together for Healthier Communities.

When:  March 27, 2018; 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Where:  DCU Center, Worcester, MA

Please Click Here to Register and View Event Information

This is a signature prevention-oriented gathering focused on building healthier and more equitable communities. This annual conference is designed to provide professional development and networking opportunities, along with tools, resources and practical skill-building sessions. The conference will feature a keynote speaker, workshops and
networking opportunities.

College of Nursing 2018 Spring Seminar Series: “Medication adherence and chronic disease self-management among community health center patients in Springfield, MA.”

Presenter: Dr. Susan Shaw
Date: February 27, 2018
Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Location: Skinner Hall, Room 101

The third talk in the College of Nursing’s Spring Seminar Series will be presented by Dr. Susan Shaw, associate professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Policy at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences. She will speak on “Medication adherence and chronic disease self-management among community health center patients in Springfield, MA,” and will also talk about her role as director of the Center for Community Health Equity Research.

College of Nursing 2018 Spring Seminar Series: “Health Reform and Addiction Treatment: Lessons from a National Study”

Presenter: Dr. Peter Friedmann
Date: February 13, 2018
Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Location: Skinner Hall, Room 101

Peter Friedmann, chief research Officer and endowed chair for clinical research, Baystate Health, speaks on “Health Reform and Addiction Treatment: Lessons from a National Study” as part of the College of Nursing spring seminar series.

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Dr. Andrea Barsevick to Present: “The Science of Symptom Management”

Dr. Andrea Barsevick will present the first 2018 NINR Director’s Lecture. In her presentation, “The Science of Symptom Management,” Dr. Barsevick will describe her program of research which addresses cancer-related symptoms and quality of life research. The lecture will be followed by an opportunity for questions and discussion.

About the Speaker

Andrea Barsevick, PhD, RN, FAAN, AOCN is a Professor in the Population Science Division of Medical Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University. She is known internationally for her research on symptom clustering during and after cancer treatment, particularly fatigue and its interactions with sleep disturbances, depressed mood, and quality of life.

Dr. Barsevick is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a past member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Guidelines Panel on cancer-related fatigue.

About the Event

This event is free and open to the public. The event will not be webcast, but it will be available on YouTube a few weeks following the lecture.

The NINR Director’s Lecture series is designed to bring the nation’s top nurse scientists to the NIH campus to share their work and interests with a transdisciplinary audience. For more information, visit https://www.ninr.nih.gov/directors-lecture.