{"id":59220,"date":"2014-07-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/two-uri-graduate-nursing-students-win-jonas-center-scholarships\/"},"modified":"2014-07-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T00:00:00","slug":"two-uri-graduate-nursing-students-win-jonas-center-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/07\/two-uri-graduate-nursing-students-win-jonas-center-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Two 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate nursing students win Jonas Center scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tFoundation seeks to boost numbers of nurse scientists, professors<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 28, 2014 \u2013 Two nurse practitioners pursuing doctorates at the 溏心vlog免费B站 have been awarded scholarships from The Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence and Veterans Healthcare.<\/p>\n

The grant is given by the New York-based foundation to organizations to prepare nurses in all 50 states to become nurse scientists and instructors in response to a shortage of faculty. The Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar Program provides $20,000 over two years of study. <\/p>\n


\nA limited supply of nurses with doctorates has had a significant impact on the ability of nursing schools to educate sufficient numbers of professionals needed to engage in the highest level of practice, research and scholarship, according to the center.<\/p>\n


\nBrandi Parker Cotton and Katherine Simmonds will receive scholarships beginning in fall 2014.<\/p>\n


\nCotton, of Providence, R.I., and Simmonds, of Boston, Mass., provide care for youth and families in city neighborhood clinics.

\nCotton is a family psychiatric nurse practitioner who specializes in treating children and adolescents. She works as a consultant for Gateway Healthcare Inc., a nonprofit behavioral health care organization based in Pawtucket, R.I.<\/p>\n


\nCotton intends to pursue research related to chronic housing instability among low-income families. Cotton wants to draw awareness to the barriers to well-being that insecure housing creates for children and families. <\/p>\n

Simmonds coordinates the Women\u2019s Health nurse practitioner specialty at the MGH Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing and teaches at the advanced practice level. She is a nurse practitioner at the hospital\u2019s Chelsea-Roca teen health center.<\/p>\n


\nSimmonds intends to conduct research relating to the values and preferences of health care providers and the quality of reproductive health care of young women who are members of racial, ethnic or gender minorities.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThere is also an aggressive leadership component to this award and both of these students are charged with doing a project with the Rhode Island Action Coalition to advance the landmark Future of Nursing report recommendations of the National Institute of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,\u201d said Lynne Dunphy, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of nursing and associate dean of external affairs at the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Nursing, the founding nursing co-leader of RIAC.<\/p>\n


\nCotton, a master\u2019s level graduate of Yale University School of Nursing, was a participant in the National Service Health Corps, which sends health professionals into underserved areas; those who fulfill contracts are given loan repayment assistance.<\/p>\n


\nThrough her service in Bridgeport, Conn., and Pawtucket, Cotton became aware of the problems associated with poverty-driven mobility \u2013 families forced to relocate due to financial strain, dangerous neighborhoods or environmental toxins.<\/p>\n


\nSuch research has been documented by public health researchers but overlooked by nursing, Cotton says. The literature also fails to grasp the qualitative experience of children. Housing instability places them at risk for substance abuse, mental health diagnoses, lack of compliance with vaccines, disrupted medical care, early sexual initiation and poor academic outcomes, the nurse practitioner says.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt is critical to understand where children are most vulnerable in order to inform interventions and changes in public policy,\u201d Cotton says.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cObserving these families’ struggle with chronic housing instability, it became clear that mental health care is more than medication management and psychotherapy; we can do better not only as individual practitioners but also as a health care community when we begin to address these broader systemic problems.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe other Jonas scholar at 溏心vlog免费B站 is Simmonds, who holds a master\u2019s degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health and received a master\u2019s degree in nursing from the MGH Institute of Health Professions.<\/p>\n


\nSimmonds, a frequently published author on the subject of unintended pregnancy and the inclusion of reproductive health in nursing education, is the founder and former director of the Reproductive Options Education Consortium for Nursing, and she continues to serve as an advisory member. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cFrom my own clinical experience providing sexual and reproductive health care to nonwhite, poor urban women and as a nursing professor, I have become interested in what we do and don\u2019t teach future nurses about this aspect of patient care,\u201d Simmonds says. \u201cSpecifically I am concerned about whether we teach nurses about the intersection between their personal values and professional responsibilities, especially when it comes to providing reproductive health care to vulnerable women.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar Program was created in 2008 to support educational development of new nursing faculty and stimulate models for joint faculty appointments between schools of nursing and clinical affiliates.<\/p>\n


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\n溏心vlog免费B站 doctoral-level nursing students Brandi Parker Cotton and Katherine Simmonds, 2014-2016 Jonas Scholars. 溏心vlog免费B站 Communications & Marketing photo by Nora Lewis.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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