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December 2005 Edition
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Farewell to Roxanne Struthers, NCEMNA Mentor and Board of Directors member
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Roxanne Struthers, who grew up a poor farm girl in Sugar Bush
Township on the White Earth Reservation, knew early on that she
wanted to be a nurse. She worked in a senior citizens home as a
teenager, became a nurse's aide, and eventually was one of only 14
American Indians to hold doctorates in nursing. "She had a dream that she was supposed to be a healer," said her daughter, Julie Marson of Marysville, Wash.
The University of Minnesota School of Nursing professor died of leukemia in St. Paul on Saturday, December 10, 2005. She was 53.
Struthers melded the healing aspects of her culture with her skills in medicine. During her career as a registered nurse she worked on Indian reservations.
Struthers earned her Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Minnesota 1999, conducted research on the health of Indians, especially in the tribes of Minnesota and the Northwest .....Full Story
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The Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCCC) and the University of Massachusetts, Boston, were jointly awarded a $4.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health earlier last week. The grant, to be paid over five years, will be used to combat health disparities in the Boston area.
“This marks the beginning of a bold new effort to solve one of health care’s most troubling problems—health disparities that affect so many Americans because of their backgrounds,” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., said at a press conference announcing the grant last Tuesday.
“It’s high time we eliminated these disparities—and I’m proud that Dana-Farber and UMASS-Boston are stepping up to lead the effort,” Kennedy said.
Greer L ..... Full Story
| WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc. (MCAN), established in April 2005 with funding from The Merck Company Foundation, took steps today to address the leading cause of chronic illness in children -- asthma. During its formal launch here, MCAN announced $10 million in grants to five innovative childhood asthma programs in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Each program will receive approximately $2 million over four years, targeting low-income, urban populations with high rates of pediatric asthma.
MCAN will focus on improving access to quality childhood asthma care and management and on helping to address disparities in asthma outcomes, particularly among children living in poverty.
"We believe that these programs will help improve the health of children living with asthma and give both them and their families more hope," said Dr. Floyd J ..... Full Story
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| Pilot Study to Shorten the Review Cycle for New Investigator R01 Applications
Issued by
National Institutes of Health (NIH), (http://www.nih.gov)
Shortening the review cycle is a high priority for the National Institutes of Health and the biomedical and behavioral research communities. There is also great interest in the career development of scientists and NIH is committed to supporting new investigators* in their efforts to obtain R01 research grant funding. Since new investigators by definition do not have R01 support, any delay in the ability to submit an amended application could have a negative impact on their careers. Cognizant of the pressure on new investigators to obtain NIH R01 funding, the Center for Scientific Review convened a trans-NIH working group to develop a process to shorten the referral and review cycle in order to permit a new investigator to submit an amended application for the next submission date .....Full Story
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Application Deadline: Jan 13, 2006
The Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) will generate, disseminate and translate research to improve the quality of care provided in hospitals. It will support interdisciplinary teams of nurse scholars and scholars from other disciplines to address gaps in knowledge about the relationship between nursing and health care quality. |
NCEMNA's 2006 conference will be held at the Wyndham Chicago, IL. NCEMNA will continue with its NCEMNA Mentee Mentor program, offering financial support covering travel, conference registration and all expenses paid to Chicago, Il. Registration for the conference is now on-line at www.ncemna.org. This year, Dr. Linda Burns Bolton, distinguished nurse researcher, administrator and newly installed president of the prestigious American Acagemy of Nursing will give the keynote address at NCEMNA's Conference Banquet. Additionally NCEMNA will be offering Incentive Scholarships to ethnic minority nurse faculty and students located in and about the Chicago area .....Full Story
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