SCHOLAR DIRECTORY

I am currently attending Idaho State University where I am working on my PhD of nursing. I previously earned a Bachelor of Nursing from Weber State University, and a Master of Public Health from George Washington University. Over the past 9 years I have worked in various nursing roles including the ER, PACU, ICU, Infection Prevention, and Quality Improvement. Teamwork is a large part of health care today, and learning how team members collaborate with one another will improve teamwork. My research focus is looking at perceptions and behaviors of students regarding collaboration, and how students learn skills to help them successfully collaborate with other health professions through interprofessional education.

Kimberly J. Angelini, BSN-RN, WHNP-BC is an MS/PhD student at Boston College. She is currently a board certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. Kim works as a staff nurse on the in-patient transplantation unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. She serves on the board of directors for ANA Massachusetts and is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau Alpha Chi chapter, the Society of Urological Nurses and Associates (SUNA) and the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN). Kim’s research focuses on women’s health issues, specifically problems with the pelvic floor and lower urinary tract symptoms. At Boston College, Kim is working alongside faculty mentors and advisors with expertise in women’s health quantitative and qualitative research methods. Her research and educational development include the expertise of faculty mentors including Dr. Kathy Hutchinson, whose research focuses on adolescent and young adult risk behaviors and influential parenting behaviors, and Dr. Melissa Sutherland, whose research addresses the issue of interpersonal violence and its influence on health outcomes among adolescent and young adult women.

Sharee Anzaldo is a doctoral student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Nursing. She entered the nursing profession through the Masters Entry Program in Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing, earning a Master of Science degree in Nursing with a minor in Education. She also completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology at UCLA. Ms. Anzaldo has over seven years of clinical experience in pediatric nursing. She is an alumna of the Versant RN Residency in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), where she completed her initial training in pediatric medical-surgical and rehabilitation nursing. She currently works as a registered nurse in Perioperative Services and serves as a unit representative for the Clinical Services Research Council. Ms. Anzaldo also has teaching experience at UCLA School of Nursing. As the Teaching Assistant Consultant, she serves as a resource for and supports teaching assistants. She has also been a teaching assistant for various courses, including pediatric nursing, nursing education, public health nursing, fundamentals of nursing, skills lab, and simulation. During her undergraduate and graduate education, Ms. Anzaldo participated in several research training programs and volunteered for community health organizations, piquing her interest in nursing research in the Filipino American community. Her research interests in pediatric nursing include chronic illness, family dynamics, and cultural values, beliefs, and perceptions. Ms. Anzaldo’s dissertation focus is on Filipino American parental beliefs and perceptions of managing care for a child diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

Cherry Arimas-Macalino is a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) student of the Southern California CSU DNP Consortium (California State University, Fullerton, Los Angeles and Long Beach). She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Biola University. She acquired her Master of Science in Nursing and her school nurse credential from CSU, Fullerton. She has extensive experience in community health, which included overseeing multiple programs as an Assistant Director of Public Health Nursing. Her passion is preventive care and addressing the needs of vulnerable populations. Her clinical background includes working with the Athabascan Indians, patients with HIV/AIDS, foster care children, drug-endangered children, school-aged students, and on a medical surgical unit. She currently serves as the Vice President and Program Committee Chair of Upsilon Beta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International. She is a panel member of a Student Attendance Review Board. She is also a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society. Her research focus will be to identify the correlation between chronic absenteeism in school-aged children, and educational and health outcomes.

I chose to go into nursing to serve in rural and small US communities. I currently serve as a clinical educator and charge nurse at a long-term acute care hospital, which is the facility of choice in our area for ventilator weaning and advanced treatment of patients, including veterans, of all ages. Additionally, I am the Pathway to Excellence project director for our facility, as we just submitted our document to make us candidates for the Pathway to Excellence designation. My research will be based around the need for better patient and staff education about advanced directives, better systems to transmit these directives, and following directives based on patient preferences. In my current facility, we see many families and patients struggling with end-of-life decisions after the patient has been critically ill for an extended period of time. With amazing technology and the ability to access our patients’ healthcare record at every stage in care, why is an advance directive so difficult to make portable? Why are healthcare providers afraid to talk about end of life? How can we make this better?

Noël M. Arring, DNP, RN, OCN, is the Manager of Nursing Research, Department of Nursing at Mayo Clinic, Arizona. She received her DNP from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Public Health Nurse Leadership. She has over 10 years of experience working in the field of Oncology. She is currently a PhD student at Oregon Health & Science University where she is studying cancer-related fatigue in post-treatment cancer survivors. Her research and clinical interests include: Enculturating Evidence-based practice, Cancer Survivorship, Population Health Management, and Falls.