News and Upcoming Events

AIDS Walk

Join the Zeta Pi Longhorns team for the 23rd annual AIDS Walk on Sunday March 11th! Check-in for the 5k walk starts at 8:00am at Sam Houston Park (1100 Bagby), with Opening Ceremonies at 9, and Step-Off at 10. You can join the Zeta Pi team at the Zeta Pi Longhorns’ 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.