Anchorage AK United States
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Ana Verzone, MS, RN, FNP-BC, CNM
Frontier Nursing University
DNP
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Ana Verzone received her BA in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, her MS from the University of California at San Francisco, and her post-masters Certificate in Nurse-Midwifery from Frontier Nursing University. She is a member of the International Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau, and has also been inducted into the National Honor Society of Psychology, Psi Chi. Currently based in Anchorage, Alaska, she holds board certifications as both an FNP and CNM. She has worked in migrant farmworker clinics, Level I trauma centers, a CNM hospital-based practice for the underserved, a private integrative medicine clinic, and at Southcentral Foundation and Alaska Native Medical Center’s Rural Anchorage Service Unit as both an FNP and CNM, providing care in urban and remote regions of Alaska. She is also a clinical instructor and preceptor, and has volunteered internationally, including in Uganda, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Indonesia, and Nepal. She is pursuing her DNP at Frontier Nursing University with a focus on women’s and children’s health. Areas of interest include decreasing antibiotic use in pregnancy and in the pediatric population, applied positive psychology and self-compassion in the nursing role, improving delivery of postpartum care in rural areas, and decreasing the high rates of postpartum depression in underserved populations. Ms. Verzone is working towards a faculty position to teach advanced practice registered nursing students, helping to prepare them for the increasingly complex roles they are filling, especially in the demanding environments unique to remote and rural regions.
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Research/Clinical Practice Area: Jonas Nurse Leader – Women’s and Children’s Health
Dissertation: Decreasing Antibiotic Use in Pregnancy – Evidence-Based Non-Pharmaceutical Alternatives
Charles Vidourek, MS, RN, VA-BC
The Ohio State University
DNP
Personal Email: vidourek.4@osu.edu
Work Email: vidourek.4@osu.edu
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Mr. Vidourek is currently studying the Doctorate of Nursing Practice at The Ohio State University. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in music, Mr. Vidourek completed a 12-month accelerated bachelor of nursing program. Currently, he has over nine years of emergency department (ED) experience (five years in a level one pediatric trauma center/4 years in a level one adult trauma center), and 5 years in the vascular access specialty. He was selected as the ED “Nurse of the Year” while in the pediatric ED and was the recipient of the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses as a staff nurse in the adult ED. Mr. Vidourek’s doctoral project is aimed at improving pediatric readiness within non-pediatric emergency departments.
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Research/Clinical Practice Area: Jonas Nurse Leader – Women’s and Children’s Health
Dissertation: Improving Pediatric Readiness for Non-pediatric Emergency Departments
Westerville Ohio United States
Adrienne Vieson, BSN RN
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
DNP
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Adrienne Vieson graduated cum laude with her BSN in 2010 from Texas Woman’s University. Upon graduation she discovered her passion for working with patients with cardiovascular disease. After joining the United States Air Force in 2013, she continued to work with cardiovascular patients as an outpatient nurse. Currently, she is a DNP student with a concentration in family nurse practitioner at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Although she is still very interested in managing patient with chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease, she is also interested in preventative medicine and women’s health.
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Research/Clinical Practice Area: Jonas Veterans Healthcare Scholar – Rehabilitation
Dissertation: The subject of my capstone project is chronic pain. The current literature is conflicted as to the optimal reliable method or program to educate primary care providers on best management practices for patients and decrease the number of referrals to pain management. This lack of agreement among current providers impacts multiple facets of society because of the widespread issue of opioid addiction and subsequent deaths. Ensuring adherence with an evidenced based approach in the primary care management concerns of patients with chronic pain is within the translational skills of the DNP primary care providers. Engaging in crucial conversations with patients and families is paramount. Establishing specific, measurable, actionable, realistic, and timely (SMART) expectations will enhance the success of treatments. Promoting self-monitoring through motivational interviewing, and engaging patients in their own mutual care contracts will maximize appropriate management.
Mc Lean VA United States
Cidalia Vital, MS, RN, CNL, CPAN
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
PhD
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Cidalia Vital, MS, RN, CNL, CPAN is the Magnet Nursing Program Director for Baystate Medical Center in Springfield Massachusetts. She has been involved with the Magnet program for Baystate since 2011 as one of the primary authors of their recent redesignation document. She has served on several national and state nursing boards representing the interests of new graduate nurses as a Vice President of ANA- Massachusetts from 2007-2009 as well as a Director for the American Board of Perianesthesia Nurses as a Director promoting the importance of specialty certification in perianesthesia. Cidalia has spent the last 13 years of her nursing career advancing the practice of nursing through her research on post-operative urinary retention as well as promoting lateral violence and bullying prevention through video from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. Cidalia is passionate about promoting clinical inquiry at the bedside. She has fostered over 120 clinical nurses to participate in a successful Art of Questioning Campaign which encouraged evidence based practice through PICOT. Cidalia holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from College of Our Lady of the Elms, a master’s in nursing from University of Massachusetts Amherst and is pursuing her PhD in nursing at UMASS. She has been recognized with numerous awards for her outstanding leadership and excellence in practice. Cidalia was honored as the recipient of the Elms College Distinguished Alumni in Nursing Excellence Award in 2014. Cidalia just recently graduated from the Massachusetts Organization of Nurse Leaders Academy in the spring 2016.
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Research/Clinical Practice Area: Jonas Nurse Leader – Other
Dissertation: Perianesthesia Nursing Certification Impact on Patient Outcomes
Ludlow MA United States
Tania Von Visger, CNS, PCCN
The Ohio State University
PhD
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My interest in nursing began at a tender age of 14 and continues to blossom as I have grown professionally. At the graduate level, I have been able to expand my forces of influence to improve the care of patients and family beyond the bedside practice. At the doctoral level, I hope to contribute to the body of science providing evidence to clinical practice. As a critical care CNS managing hospitalized patients with PH, my interest had been in the dyspnea symptom management. Dyspnea serves as an indicator for patients with PH to seek health care; it may serve as the main trigger symptom leading undiagnosed patients to confirmation of PH. My passion to understand the patient’s experience of quality of life associated with PH disease progression led me to develop a clinical research study “Pulmonary Hypertension: Quality of Life” in 2010. My patients in the PH clinic show great variability in their descriptions of dyspnea. However, symptom surveys employed in prior PH studies are crude and reveal prevalence of dyspnea, rather than the quality (tightness, air hunger), intensity, frequency, duration, precipitating factors, co-occurring signs/symptoms (cough, sputum production, wheezing), or patient management strategies. Further research is required to construct evidence-based, patient-centered symptom appraisal and management interventions specific to this vulnerable population. I intend to extend my previous research by exploring the dyspnea using mixed-methods to describe the symptom’s sensory-perceptual characteristics and build a model of the dyspnea symptom experience for patients with PH. Jonas Scholarship will support this professional aspiration.
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Research/Clinical Practice Area: Jonas Nurse Leader – Dyspnea Symptom Management in Pulmonary Hypertension Patients
Dissertation: Dyspnea Frequency and Pattern among PH patients across the trajectory of disease continumn
Upper Arlington OH United States
Vicki Voskuil, CPNP
Michigan State University
PhD
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Vicki Voskuil, MS, RN, CPNP, is a PhD student at Michigan State University College of Nursing. She received a BSN from Calvin College and a MS in Parent-Child Nursing from the University of Michigan and is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner. Ms. Voskuil has been a faculty member in the Hope College Nursing Department since 2004 and has served as the Curriculum and Program Director for the department since 2012. Ms. Voskuil’s nursing career began in pediatric trauma and rehabilitation at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan as a staff nurse, preceptor, and charge nurse. She has been a pediatric nurse practitioner in primary care in California, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Ms. Voskuil is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Kappa Epsilon Chapter-at-Large, and recently served as the chapter’s vice president. She was the recipient of the Excellence in Education Award from the chapter in 2008. She is also a member of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. Ms. Voskuil’s research interest is childhood obesity prevention, specifically interventions aimed at increasing physical activity among youth. Her doctoral dissertation will focus on self-efficacy and physical activity in middle school girls. After completing her PhD, she plans to develop a program of research aimed at increasing physical activity through pilot and intervention research partnering with community organizations to promote healthy lifestyles for youth. As a nurse educator, she intends to continue teaching future nurse scholars to assume roles in nursing practice, education, and research.
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Research/Clinical Practice Area: Jonas Nurse Leader – Chidhood obesity prevention/physical acivity interventions
Dissertation: The anticipated 3 manuscript dissertation will include a concept analysis of youth physical activity self-efficacy, examination of two measures of self-efficacy, and theoretical model testing.
Holland MI United States
Heather Voss, MSN, RN
University of Northern Colorado
PhD
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I am a PhD candidate at the University of Northern Colorado. My area of research is emancipatory knowing and service learning in clinical nursing education. I currently teach in the undergraduate program with Oregon Health and Science University in Ashland, Oregon. My area of expertise is population health and nursing leadership. I am the project co-manager for the Interprofessional Care Access Network (I-CAN). I-CAN is a nurse-led, community-based interprofessional health care delivery and educational program that addresses the Triple Aim for vulnerable populations in urban neighborhoods and rural communities in Oregon.
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Research/Clinical Practice Area: Jonas Nurse Leader – Education/Inter-professional education
Dissertation: Expressions of Emancipatory Knowing in Undergraduate Nursing Service Learning
Medford Oregon United States