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Conversations in the Discipline: Simulation in Health Care
Conversations in the Disciplines (CID): Simulation in Health Care is a conference developed with the Decker School of Nursing (DSON), the Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at the State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton, in partnership with local hospitals. The purpose of this conference is to bring together scholars from SUNY campuses and health care organizations to facilitate an exchange for the advancement of knowledge in simulation science.
Deadline for abstract poster submission has been extended to Friday, April 6. For further information and registration
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Problem solvers: Women, this is not your father’s heart attack
The problem: Heart attacks in women go largely unrecognized 30 to 55 percent of the time because women experience a range of symptoms that might not include the kind of chest pains that men feel during a heart attack. Those who miss the warning signs and fail or delay getting help run the risk of death or disability.
The researchers: Pamela Stewart Fahs, professor and Decker Chair in Rural Nursing at Binghamton University's Decker School of Nursing, in collaboration with Melanie Kalman, associate professor and director of research, and Margaret Wells, assistant professor, in the College of Nursing at SUNY Upstate Medical University. . .
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The Unfiltered Truth: Nurse crafts 
a smoking-cessation message for pregnant women
Geraldine Britton, assistant professor of nursing, hopes that showing pregnant women a new video will lead them to quit smoking or cut down on cigarettes. Hoping to devise better smoking-cessation strategies, Britton and her colleagues in ITURP, supported by a March of Dimes grant, conducted a series of nine focus groups. Three of those groups consisted of pregnant smokers and six of healthcare providers. "The purpose was to increase the understanding of the pregnant smoker, including the motivation to quit," Britton says. The researchers also asked for ideas about how to communicate the message. . . .
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Broken heart syndrome study
So heartbroken you actually feel pain in your heart? Well, a recent study published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, proves that heartache can actually cause a heart attack. "Broken Heart Syndrome is a syndrome that occurs under severe emotional or physical stress,” said
Pamela Stewart Fahs, RN, DSN, BU Professor of Nursing. “It was originally discovered in Japan. But we've found that two percent in cardiac deaths that occur, we see this sudden emotional or physical trauma." . . .
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Kudos
Congratulations to Decker School co-authors Associate Professor A. Serdar Atav and Clinical Assistant Professor Rosa Darling for landing articles in not one but two publications as follows:
- Darling, R., & Atav. A. S. (in-press). Risk factors for low birth weight in New York State counties.Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice.
- Atav, A. S., & Darling, R. (in-press). Comparison of coding schemas for rural-urban designations with New York State counties and birth outcomes as exemplars. Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care.
Congratulations to DSON Clinical Assistant Professor Yvonne Johnston for receiving an award from the Broome County Health Department for a project entitled, "Sodium Reduction in Communities."
Kudos to DSON Associate Professor Dr. Serdar Atav on receiving an award from Health Research, Inc., for his project entitled, "Performance Management Data Entry Systems (PMDES)."
Kudos to Martha Langhorne, MS '88, who was the 2011 recipient of the Oncology Nursing Society Pearl Moore Making a Difference Award. Langhorne is a nurse practitioner at Binghamton Gastroenterology. The award recognizes her significant contributions to the oncology nursing profession at the local and regional levels.
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