Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing

Professor and #novanurse Helene Moriarty, PhD, RN, FAAN, Diane and Robert Moritz Jr. Endowed Chair in Nursing Research in the M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing (FCN), and Laraine Winter, PhD, FCN senior research associate, are principal investigators on an R01 funded by the National Institute for Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health. The five-year, $3.3 million grant (R01NR018655) funds their research project, A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Innov...ative In-home Rehabilitation Program for Persons with TBI and Their Families: Home-based Occupational-therapy and Management of the Environment (HOME for Us). Their study has the potential to transform #TBI care for over 5 million #veteran and civilian families. Dr. Moriarty also serves as nurse scientist at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, where Dr. Winter is a research psychologist. #villanovanursingresearch https://bit.ly/35OdWFl

Congratulations to Dr. Cindy Hambach who had a successful dissertation defense yesterday with her study "Using Standardized Patients in Simulated Learning Experiences to Develop Clinical Judgment and Clinical Competence of Baccalaureate Nursing Students in a Foundations in Nursing Course." Her dissertation chair was Dr. Mary Ann Cantrell and Dr. Bette Mariani was her committee member. She is our 94th PhD graduate! We wish Dr. Hambach continued success in her scholarship and specifically look forward to seeing her dissertation study reported in several publications! #villanovanursingphd #villanovanursingresearch

Thank you to all of the #novanurses who are first responders. Your contributions to the health of our country are many. #firstrespondersday

#novanurse Emily is right- we are all becoming https://youtu.be/nWa8BWoxSi8

You nailed it, Tanya! https://youtu.be/Li94i1wMOkM

The Fitzpatrick College of Nursing is hiring! Please see this post for an adjunct faculty Statistician and share with your networks. Thank you! https://jobs.villanova.edu/postings/19267

In honor of #MakeADogsDay, show us a pic of your #novanursing dog and tell us what's fun or special about your furry friend!

Join Donna Sullivan Havens, PhD, RN, FAAN, '83 MSN, Connelly Endowed Dean and Professor, on October 27 (12-1pm ET) as she updates alumni, parents and friends on... key initiatives in the Fitzpatrick College of Nursing. Topics will include the College’s strategic plan; the impact and response to COVID-19; and diversity, equity and inclusion. When registering, participants are encouraged to submit questions for Dean Havens. https://na.eventscloud.com/website/18028/ See more

TODAY! The second webinar in the Fitzpatrick College of Nursing’s Center for Global and Public Health on the Go webinar series will take place TODAY, 10/21, at 2 p.m. Dr. Theresa Conte, PhD, CRNP, will explore the importance of resiliency in order to remain engaged and healthy while practicing in a global pandemic during her webinar, Unmasking Your Resilience: How to Achieve Self-Care During a Pandemic." Attendees will participate in active stress managements and resiliency building activities. This event is free but requires registration bit.ly/2HjfQpa

My name is Ariana, I am a Puerto Rican and Colombian and a student here at Villanova in the BSNExpress program. Recently, I have joined Dr. Linda Maldonado's research project that works with a community of Puerto Rican women in Kensington Philadelphia. I am excited to be connecting with a local Hispanic community during my time here. I hope that incoming Hispanic students will consider getting involved with research and pursuing coursework in STEM or a career in nursing. It's so important that we are represented in all these fields and that we are represented in academic literature! Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth, you belong here! @nahnnursing #villanovanursingresearch

MI HISTORIA/ MY STORY Dr. Linda Maldonado - dedicated to developing science to better maternal-child health outcomes in the Puerto Rican community- shares thoughts about her work and the next generation. #HispanicHeritageMonth #VillanovaNursingResearch #TeamLatina #healthdisparities National Association of Hispanic Nurses

Tony Garcia ’19 BSN * IMC Transplant RN * Johns Hopkins Hospital As a freshman, I heard about Dr. Linda Maldonado’s Team Latina project. A Puerto Rican mother herself, Dr. Maldonado was interviewing Puerto Rican mothers in Philadelphia to understand why Puerto Rican babies have the least favorable survival rates in the first year among Hispanics and develop an intervention to improve this. Her research really spoke to me because I am half Puerto Rican and know that there wer...e many complications during my mother’s pregnancy with me. The research I completed under the mentorship of Dr. Maldonado throughout my 4 years at Villanova helped me understand challenges in the Hispanic community as well as finding my voice in meeting those challenges. This research expanded my worldview to an extent that has significantly improved the quality of care I give as a bedside nurse. I still carry that commitment to improving health disparities in my everyday practice and the most fulfilling feeling I’ve experienced at the bedside is being able to provide a sense of peace over Hispanic patients because I can be someone who turns their hospital experience into something a little bit more familiar for them. This proved to be especially true from February to June when we cared for patients affected by COVID-19 who were mostly Hispanic. Furthermore, understanding the impact of cultural and language barriers has made me more aware of obstacles that many patients face beyond the Hispanic community. My next steps as I enter my second year of nursing are to become involved in Centro Sol, an outreach program benefitting the LatinX community of Baltimore. If you share a commitment to social justice and the betterment of health for all I highly encourage you to get involved in research in the Fitzpatrick College of Nursing. I didn’t know where my journey would take me or what I would learn along the way, but what I did know was that I felt called to help people just like me. You don’t have to look far to ignite change. What I’ve learned is that you can make a big difference in the world by being there for the people you interact with in a daily basis. #HispanicHeritageMonth National Association of Hispanic Nurses

FCN is the now the host of MACCHE, aka the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, which is one of ten Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU) in the US, serving residents in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia (that’s the EPA’s Region 3). FCN’s Dr. Ruth McDermott-Levy is co-directing the unit with Dr. Laura Anderko, Robert and Kathleen Scanlon Endowed Chair in Values Based Health Care... & Professor, School of Nursing and Health Sciences at Georgetown. They are joined by Emma Pennea as Senior Associate Director of MACCHE. You are invited to a free, virtual conference courtesy of Jonas Philanthropies on October 16, Mission Homefront: Translating Research into Practice in Veterans Healthcare, where Dr. Anderko is speaking on environmental health exposures faced by veterans and their families. We hope you will join and share with those who may be interested. All are welcome. Lean more and register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mission-homefront-translating-