SCHOLAR DIRECTORY

Roberto L. Roman Laporte is currently in the DNP program at Johns Hopkins University. He graduated with his MSN in 2014 from the University of Miami and completed his undergraduate studies at Miami Dade College with honors. He is a Certified Medical Surgical Registered Nurse and is also a Preceptor Specialist (certified preceptor awarded by the American Academy for Preceptor Advancement). He has been a nurse for over seven years and has practiced as a Medical-Surgical Oncology nurse and is cross-trained in the Progressive Care Unit. He currently is a corporate Clinical Learning Educator working closely with the RN Residency and Preceptor Programs at Baptist Health South Florida. He is a former director of nursing for a practical nurse program. He is a co-investigator for two research studies one study focusing on the Married State Preceptorship Model and the other study focusing on Unit-based Competencies. He has received numerous accolades from patients, which earned him the Doctors Hospital Nightingale Award in 2011. He also received the Nurse of the Year award for Doctors Hospital, 2 West. On his spare time he helps new graduate nurses prepare for the NCLEX-RN. He is currently a member of a new committee called WINN-NTF (Workforce Integration of New Nurses-Nursing the Future). Roberto is passionate about working with new graduate nurses and newly licensed registered nurses and wants to improve their transition to practice.

Meghan Routt MSN, ANP/GNP-BC, AOCNP currently works as a nurse practitioner for Wesley Glen-Methodist Elder Care Services which is a not for profit continuing care retirement community committed to serving older adults and helping facilitate aging in place. Meghan is currently enrolled full time as a nursing PhD student at the University of Utah. She was awarded a Noorda gerontology fellowship for her first three years of coursework in the PhD. She is also a former Hartford Scholar awarded in her MSN program. Meghan has served as the national practice committee chair for the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nursing Association as well as is the immediate past president of the Ohio Chapter and serves as the current secretary/treasurer. She has published in the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, edited three books, two currently in press and done podium presentations on the local, national and international level. Meghan’s dissertation will focus on developing a multi-modal personalized prehabilitation intervention in older adults diagnosed with pancreatic cancer prior to a pancreaticoduodenctomy. She is honored to accept the prestigious Jonas Nurse Leadership scholarship.

Currently enrolled at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing DNP program; Graduate of Emory University Woodruff School of Nursing (1981 BSN, Oxford College AA-1977), University of Phoenix (MSN/Ed 2006), Oakland University (CNL 2009) Registered Nurse with clinical focus on care of adults. Board Certified Specialties- Clinical Nurse Leader and Wound and Foot Care. Associate Professor, University of Phoenix, College of Health Sciences. Director of Nursing Excellence, Washington DC VA Medical Center serving as a senior nurse leader to promote evidence-based practice, nursing research, and strategic planning. Areas of Interest: Evidence-based Practice, Nursing Research, Quality & Safety, Program/Strategic Planning, Public & Veteran’s health, Policy DNP Capstone: Decreasing Falls in Acute Care Medical Patients in a Veterans Medical Center-falls continue to be a top safety risk despite evidence-based guidelines, falls are a condition similar to pressure ulcers that require individualized risk assessment and targeted interventions. My project is designed to demonstrate the effect of risk category based interventions accompanied by monitoring for adherence, consistency, and evaluation of outcomes. Major Achievement(s): • Co-Inventor: Heelzup, Heel Pressure Ulcer Prevention Pillow • Senior Advisor, Co-Author: VANAP-GE Program Funding Award, $6 million 5 year funding to develop and implement AGNP clinical education and AGNP Residency program in the Washington DC VA Medical Center • Recipient VA Innovation in Care Award: Lead Author, Serve as Nurse Leader mentor for DC VA Nursing Service EBP & Research Committee, Shared Governance Congress, and as Magnet Coordinator