Dana-Farber nurses at this year’s Nursing and Patient Care Services Scholarship Week
“Dana-Farber nurses’ commitment to research was recently on display at this year’s Nursing and Patient Care Services Scholarship Week.
Organized by the Phyllis F. Cantor Center for Research in Nursing and Patient Care Services, the event featured a virtual gallery of posters, presentations, and publications by interdisciplinary teams of nurse scientists, advanced practice and clinical oncology nurses, clinical specialists, nurse leaders, clinical inquiry specialists, pharmacists, and oncologists. The gallery included 80 published papers, 25 posters, 13 study abstracts, and five podium presentation slide decks. The studies and projects, in areas ranging from symptom science to clinical trial recruitment, reflected Dana-Farber nurses’ role in scientific and clinical practice, with the central goal of improving patient care and outcomes.
‘The goal of Scholarship Week is to highlight the wonderful work of our teams in nurse-led original research studies and evidence-based practice/quality improvement projects,’ says Kayoll Gyan, PhD, RN, associate director of the Cantor Center.
The Excellence in Dissemination Award winners for the 2023 calendar year, selected by a peer-review panel in April 2024, are:
- Leadership/Education category: Teresa Mazeika, MSN, RN, OCN; Jacqueline Tuskan, MSN, RN, OCN; Renee Abdella, MSN, RN, OCN, BMTCN; Janet Bagley, MS, RN, AOCNS, NEA-BC, for Growth and Development of an Infusion Nurse Float Pool in an Ambulatory Comprehensive Cancer Center.
- Clinical Practice category: Megan Corbett, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, OCN; Marylou Nesbitt, MS, RN, AOCN; Bridget Scullion, PharmD, BCOP; Donna Marie Lynch, MSN, FNP-BC; Mariana Castells, MD, PhD; Yun Man, PharmD, BCOP; Terri Jabaley, PhD, RN, OCN, for Evaluation of a Standardized Approach to Hypersensitivity/Infusion Reaction Management in a Large Ambulatory Oncology Center.
- Evidence-Based Practice/Research category: Ijeoma Eche-Ugwu, PhD, MPH, FNP-BC, AOCNP, CPHON, BMT-CN; Teri Aronowitz, PhD, APRN, FAAN; Alexandra Merz, BA; Elizabeth Broden, PhD, RN; Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH; Angela M. Feraco, MD, MMSc, for ‘I think what you’re doing is awesome’: Inclusive Recruitment Strategies and Study Procedures for African American Parents of Children with Cancer.
- Research category: Joosun Shin, PhD, RN, OCN, AGACNP-BC; Kord Kober, PhD; Melisa L. Wong, MD, MAS; Patsy Yates, AM, PhD, RN, FACN, FAAN; Christine Miaskowski, PhD, RN, FAAN, for Systematic review of the literature on the occurrence and characteristics of dyspnea in oncology patients.
- Research category: Joosun Shin, RN, MS; Kord Kober, PhD; Melisa L. Wong, MD, MAS; Patsy Yates, RN, PhD; Marilyn Hammer, RN, PhD; Yvette Conley, PhD; Jon D. Levine, MD, PhD; Christine Miaskowski, RN, PhD, for Distinct Shortness of Breath Profiles in Oncology Outpatients Undergoing Chemotherapy.”