News and Upcoming Events

2012 AIDS Walk a Success!

The 2012 AIDS Walk Houston was a great success!
Despite the pouring rain, the Zeta Pi Longhorns of the Zeta Pi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau joined 6,000 other walkers on Sunday, March 11th, to walk "until there is a cure". The team raised $1,100.00 and the Walk raised a total of $670,840.78. The dollars raised will educate the uneducated, support the cause for a cure, and help all of the AIDS service agencies that work together to provide food, medical assistance, emotional support, and shelter.
Thanks to everyone for their time and contributions!


2012 Research Day
Pictures for our 2012 Research day have been posted-  more details on this event coming soon.


Mentoring
Zeta Pi chapter Vice President Gerardo Rivera has posted chapter Leadership Mentoring Program documents, for chapter leaders and their mentees who are interested in working together as partners to accomplish leadership goals through mentorship. These documents may be downloaded from our documents page.


Save the Date

Zeta Pi is sponsoring the 2012 March of Dimes Visiting Professorship conference: Transforming the Care of Mothers and babies: Through Advancing Obstetrical & Neonatal Care. The conference will be held on Thursday, April 12th, at The University of Texas School of Nursing (6901 Bertner Ave.), in the Alkek Foundation Auditorium. The event starts at 7:30am and runs until 4pm. Participants may register at the conference registration page.
Come all day or when you can!


March for Babies

Join the UTHealth-Zeta Pi chapter team for the March for Babies Walk on Sunday, April 29th! Registration for the 5 mile walk starts at 8:00am at University of Houston Downtown (2400 Calhoun, Entrance 16), and the walk starts at 9. You can join the UTHealth-Zeta Pi team at the Zeta Pi team page.


Research Grant Available
This is a reminder that Zeta Pi awards a grant of up to $2000 every May to an outstanding researcher. All Zeta Pi members are eligible to enter by filling out a Research Grant Application and returning it to Peggy Rose. The deadline for applications is April 15th.

Accolades

Zeta Pi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau receives award for efforts to strengthen nursing programs around the globe.
Zeta Pi, along with other chapters in Region 6, has been partnering with nursing schools in India to improve their nursing programs through teaching and financial support. Recently, an International Council Nurses (ICN) Mobile Library was donated for the use of nursing students and faculty at the Rebekah Ann Naylor School of Nursing (RANSON) in Bangalore, India. The Library, housed in a weather-proof, portable container, holds approximately 90 nursing and health publications including books, manuals and fact sheets. This valuable resource was donated along with computer equipment to augment the school’s internet access. Zeta Pi and Region 6 chapters have also partnered, since 1999, to purchase nurses’ uniforms for each RANSON graduating class. Previously, RANSON, along with the National School of Nursing and Grace Children’s Hospital in Haiti, received portions of $11,000 in sponsorship donations collected in November 2010, during the International Year of the Nurse Consortium.

Dr. Eileen Giardino is Core Faculty on a HRSA funded proposal led by Dr. Filipek at the Medical School.

An entry co-authored by Sharon K. Ostwald, Ph.D., R.N. professor at the UTHealth School of Nursing, won first prize in the annual Innovations in Health Science Education competition held by The University of Texas System during a two-day conference in San Antonio, May 18-19. Vaunette P. Fay, Ph.D., professor of clinical nursing in the Department of Nursing Systems, was one of three distinguished UTHealth inductees into The University of Texas Academy of Health Science Education on the conference's opening day.

Congratulations to both Dr. Eric Yu, Jennifer Sanner (soon to be Dr. Jennifer Sanner), and Dr. Rene Flores on their acceptance into the NINR Summer Genetics Institute!

Presentations and Publications

Leyden, K. N. L., & Hanneman, S. K. (In press). Validity of the Modified Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale for use in sedated, mechanically ventilated swine. Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Congratulations to Stacy Drake and co-author, for her publication in Journal of Forensic Sciences, entitled “Essential Medicolegal Death Investigation Services: Standardization of a Survey Instrument Based on the Essential Public Health Services.” The article was published July 2011, vol 56, No 4, 1034-1040. We a proud of Stacy for accomplishments.

Congratulations to Martina Gallagher for being identified as the winner of the 2010 Research Article Award in the Journal of Specialist in Pediatric Nursing for the research article most accessed.

Dr. Grimes and Emily Ahmad had a paper published in the August issue of The Journal of School Nursing

As follow up to her JAMA editorial [ JAMA. 2011;306(2):211-212. doi: 10.1001] with Dr. Susan Horn , “ Racial Disparities in Rates of Pressure Ulcers in Nursing Homes and Site of Care,” the UTHealth School of Nursing's Dr. Nancy Bergstrom was interviewed yesterday by the Reuters news service about nursing home conditions and the problem of high staff turnover.