Faculty Achievements

Recent and Upcoming Faculty Achievements

Dr. Virginia Adams has been reappointed by Senator Basnight to the North Carolina Nurse Scholars Commission for another four year term. This new term of service will expire on June 30, 2009. "My dream is to help get more resources in scholarships for nursing sudents and some funding for nurse educators," comments Dean Adams. The Nurse Scholars Program is a competitive, merit-based scholarship/loan program available to students who have chosen to enter the nursing profession. An 11-member Nurse Scholars Commission selects recipients for the award on the basis of superior academics, leadership potential, and desire to practice nursing on a full-time basis in North Carolina. For more information please visit the CFNC website.

Dr. Virginia Adams, joins the 12th class of Leadership North Carolina along with 50 leading citizens from across the state. Leadership North Carolina selects citizens who are current or emerging leaders in their organizations and/or communities. To find out more about Leadership North Carolina, visit their Web site.

Dr. Perri Bomar was funded $108,653 from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation for "Bolton Health and Wellness Center: A Community-Campus Partnership to Reduce Health Care Disparities in Rural Eastern Columbus County."

Dr. Perri Bomar received $32,624 from AHEC to fund the project “Improving Cancer Outcomes for African Americans.”

Ms. Caroline Cropp was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa, National Leadership Honor Society, in May 2004.

Dr. Jeanne Kemppainen
Kemppainen, J., Levine, R., Buffum, M., Holzemer, W., Finley, P., & Jensen, P. (2004). Antiretroviral adherence in persons with HIV/AIDS and severe mental illness. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders, 192(6), 1-10.

Kemppainen, J. (2003). Assessing cognitive changes in HIV/AIDS. NUMEDX.com, 5(1), 72.

Kemppainen, J., Buffum, M., Wike, G., Kestner, M., Zappe, C., Hopkins, R., Chambers, R., Morrow, M., & Bartlebaugh, P. (2003). Psychiatric nursing and medication adherence. Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services, 41(2), 39-49.

Kemppainen, J., Holzemer, W., Nokes, K., Sanzero-Eller, L., Corless, I., Bunch, El, Kirksey, K., Goodroad, B., Portillo, C., & Chou, F. (2003). Self-care management of anxiety and fear in HIV disease. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 14(2).

Nicholas, P. K., Kemppainen, J., Holzemer, W. L., Nokes, K. Sanzero Eller, L., Corless, I., Haugen Bunch, E., Bain, C., Kirksey, K., Davis, S., & Goodroad, B. (2002). Self-care management for neuropathy in HIV disease. AIDS Care, 14(6), 763-771.

Corless, IB, Haugen Bunch, E, Kemppainen, J., Holzemer, WL, Nokes, K., Sanzero-Eller, L, Portillo, C., Butensky, E., Nicholas, PK, Bain, C., Davis, S., Kirksey, K., & Chou, F. Self-care for fatigue in patients with HIV. Nursing Oncology Forum, 29(5), 775, www.ons.org/xp6/ONS/Library.xml/ONS_Publications.xml/ONF.xml

A previously published manuscript by Jeanne Kemppainen, “HAART Adherence in Culturally Diverse Patients with HIV/AIDS: A Study of Male Patients from a Veteran’s Administration Hospital in North California,” will be included in a book on Medication Adherence in HIV/AIDS, edited by Dr. Jeffrey Laurence, editor of the journal AIDS Patient Care and STDs.

A proposal by Dr. RuthAnne Kuiper, “The Impact of PDA Technology on Clinical Performance Outcomes of Undergraduate Baccalaureate Nursing Students,” was endorsed for support. The committee along with the Vice Chancellor for Information Technology Systems Division reviewed the proposals to determine the technical feasibility, the impact in the classroom and on teaching and learning.

Dr. RuthAnne Kuiper, "Promoting cognitive and metacognitive reflective reasoning skills: self-regulated learning theory," February 2004, Journal of Advanced Nursing 45(4).

Kuiper, R. A. (2004). Nursing reflections from journaling during a perioperative internship. AORN, 79(1), 195-218.

Kuiper, R. A. & Pesut, D.J. (2004). Promoting cognitive and metacognitive reflective clinical reasoning skills in nursing practice : self-regulated learning theory. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 45(4), 381-391.

Kuiper, R. A. & Hooks, P.P. (July 2004). An examination of the impact of self-regulated learning strategies on practicing nurses. On-line case study published by Sigma Theta Tau International. www.nursingknowledge.org

Kautz, D. D., Kuiper, R. A., Pesut, D.J., Knight-Brown, P., & Daneker, D. (2005). Promoting clinical reasoning in undergraduate nursing students: Application and evaluation of the Outcome Present State Test (OPT) Model of clinical reasoning. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship. 2(1), 1-15. http://www.bepress.com/ijnes/vol2/iss1/art1/

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