UMSON has awarded 10 grants of $10,000 each to support faculty in completing small innovative pilot projects to be used to build future fundable studies. These innovative ideas focus on:
- research in general
- educational research
- community-based research or evaluation projects.
Each project includes at least two nursing faculty members.
Congratulations to the following teams of nursing faculty, who received the grants!
- Kristin Bussel and Megan Rosenblatt: "Preserving Psychotherapy in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Role by Developing Competency-Based Training"
- Yvette Conyers and Ozioma Erondu: "A Nurse-Led Diabetic Foot Ulcer Prevention and Education Bundle"
- Gerrin Davis, Shannon Idzik, and Lori Edwards: "Strengthening the Post-Master’s DNP Pipeline: A Needs Assessment of Barriers and Facilitators Among Maryland Master’s-Prepared Nurses"
- Rachel McPherson and Beth Galik: "Fostering Positive Care Interactions in Assisted Living (FPCI-AL)"
- Jacquline Mitchell, Kelly Doran, and Michelle Garcia: "The Impact of Promoting Physical Activity and Wellness among Student (PAWS) Registered Nurse Anesthetist in a Front-Load Nurse Anesthesia Program: A Pilot Study"
- Charlotte Nwogwugwu and Marik Moen: "Global Local Outreach for Friendship Bench Expansion (GLOBE): Embedding Pragmatic Research to Expand the Friendship Bench from Zimbabwe to Ohio to Maryland"
- Sara Robinson, Stephanie Streb, and Ciara Smith: "Development and Testing of a Reliable, Standardized Tool to Assess Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Student Competency"
- Charlotte Seckman and Cory Stephens: "Exploring the Impact of a Generative AI-Powered Virtual Teaching Assistant on Learning, Engagement, and Instructional Efficiency"
- Nicole Smith, Jennifer Dalton, and Team: "Evaluating the Impact of Nurse Educators Questioning Techniques on Prelicensure Nursing Students' Clinical Judgement: A Comparative Study of DEU and Traditional Clinical Placement Models"
- Marleen Thornton and Susan Bindon: "Exploring Generational Expectations and Learner Engagement in Nursing Education"