PhD, BSN students take top honors at MNRS

PhD student Kristin Elgersma and BSN student Brandi Nelson took first place for their research posters at the Midwest Nursing Research Society 2022 Annual Research Conference. Elgersma took first place in the PhD poster competition for Wayfinding through the “ocean of the great unknown”: How lactating parents establish a direct breastfeeding relationship with an infant hospitalized for complex congenital heart disease. Nelson took first place in the BSN poster competition for Association Between Suicide and Teacher Connections Among Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Adolescent Victims of Familial Sexual Assault.

Additionally, Professor Wendy Looman’s abstract Resilience and Wellbeing: Youth Perceptions of Protective Factors During Normative and Non-Normative Stressors was named a Distinguished Abstract among all abstracts submitted for paper presentation

Students presenting at MNRS
DNP student Liz Tlachac presented Prenatal VTE Risk Assessment and Management Algorithm. DNP student Angelica Walton presented Impact of Mindfulness Resources on Staff Wellbeing. PhD student Elizabeth Choma presented Supporting Older Adults’ Long-Term Use of a Wearable Physical Activity Monitor. PhD student Samantha Sommerness presented A Pilot Project Implementing Eat Sleep Console to Manage Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in Women on a Maintenance Assisted Treatment Protocol. PhD student Ratchada Jantraporn presented An Empirical Analysis of Complementary and Integrative Health Therapy Documentation in the Electronic Health Record. PhD student Suhyun Park presented EHR Usability from Nurses' Perspectives: A Systematic Review. PhD student Anna Pirsch presented Critical Review of Critical Consciousness Measurement in Health Sciences Research. BSN student Anna Robinson presented Evaluation of the Nurse-Driven Management of Hypoglycemia in Critically Ill Patients.

Faculty presenting at MNRS

Robin Austin presented Generating New Knowledge and Advancing Innovative Solutions through Nursing Research. Rozina Bhimani presented Understanding Characteristics of Fatigue in Stroke Patients over Time. Camille Brown presented Emotional Distress and Sexual Exploitation among Minnesota's High School Age Youth Involved in Foster Care. Karen Monsen presented Advanced Causal Analysis Methods for Public Health Nurse Intervention Tailoring Refinement. Barb Peterson presented Planetary Health Nursing for Justice and Health Equity: A Call to Action. Teddie Potter presented Planetary Health Nursing for Justice and Health Equity: A Call to Action.