ANF Scholar Highlights

• Dr. Pam Cipriano Named 2010-2011 IOM Nurse Scholar-In-Residence
  Pamela Cipriano, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, has been chosen to participate in the 2010-2011 Institute of Medicine (IOM) Nurse Scholar-in-Residence Program, sponsored by the American Academy of Nurses (AAN), American Nurses Association (ANA), and the American Nurses Foundation (ANF). She will study the impact of Health Information Technologies (HIT) on nursing workflow, patient safety and outcomes as well as identify the characteristics necessary to achieve team-based care with multiple disciplinary use of electronic health information.
• Honoring President Patton
  This June, ANA President Rebecca Patton completed two consecutive terms in elected service as ANA president since 2006. ANA’s philanthropic arm, the American Nurses Foundation (ANF) is paying tribute to her service through a giving opportunity called Honoring President Patton!
• Margretta Madden Styles, RN, EdD, FAAN
  ANF Nursing Research Grant Highlight
  
  Dr. Margretta “Gretta” Madden Styles was dedicated to promoting quality in nursing and health care. As the architect of the first comprehensive study of nurse credentialing in the 1970s, Dr. Styles recognized the critical importance of credentialing before broad awareness of its value for nursing had been achieved.
• Elaine L. Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, CIC
  "Wash your hands! The simplest protection!"

  Nicknamed the “hand-washing queen” due to her research on this humble, but highly effective health habit, Dr. Larson is now associate dean for research at Columbia University School of Nursing.

• Linda Chlan, PhD, RN
  Chlan was responsible for leading the more than 70 reviewers through the high caliber and rigorous scientific review, then guiding the NRRC through a two-day conference call, during which final reviews were held and the 2009 grants awarded to the most highly qualified applicants. She led with professionalism, focus, and commitment, ensuring the integrity of the overall process.
• ANF President, Margarete L. Zalon
  A special thank you to our ANF President, Margarete L. Zalon, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC. Dr. Zalon’s commitment to ANF is exemplified by her hard work and passion. Dr. Zalon first encountered ANF as an ANF Scholar through the ANF Nursing Research Grants (NRG) Program. She credits ANF with starting her research career with a grant funded by the Wallerstein Foundation for Geriatric Life Improvement in 1991.
• Linda Finch, PhD, RN
  When Linda Finch, PhD, RN, made her first attempt to garner an ANF grant, she was not successful. But because reviewers' took the time to offer their advice, she was able to resubmit a stronger research proposal, which led to her becoming a 2004 ANF scholar.

  "My whole area of focus has been looking at the nurse-patient relationship and particularly the caring piece of it," says Finch, a Tennessee Nurses Association member.

• Barbara Medoff-Cooper, PhD, CRNP, RN, FAAN
  In 1983, Barbara Medoff-Cooper, PhD, CRNP, RN, FAAN, used her ANF grant to study what was close to her heart—infant development. At the time, she was a pediatric nurse practitioner and a doctoral student at Temple University.

  "I was seeing a number of preemies in the office," says Medoff Cooper, a Pennsylvania State Nurses Association member. "Their parents were having problems taking care of them, because the babies were so crabby, so difficult."

• Jean McSweeney, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN
  Dr. McSweeney has contributed significantly to the field of women's cardiovascular disease. Although she has received prestigious funding for her research endeavors, ANF provided her first funding as a SNRS/ANF Scholar. According to Dr. McSweeney, the study conducted with funds from ANF provided the essential foundation for her work on women's prodromal and acute symptoms associated with myocardial infarction and served as the springboard for her future studies.
• Bashira Abdullah Charles, MSN, RN, NP
  Understanding genetics and diabetes
• Nursing Research Grant Scholars 1955 to 2009 [pdf]