UTA OPENS NEW BUILDING FOR STATE'S LARGEST SOCIAL WORK, NURSING PROGRAMS
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With a ribbon-cutting and community tour, The University of Texas at Arlington celebrated the opening of its new School of Social Work/College of Nursing and Health Innovation (CONHI) Smart Hospital building, which promises to bring innovative teaching to nursing and social work students under one roof. Read more
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SMART HOSPITAL RECEIVES INTERNATIONAL PRAISE
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The University of Texas at Arlington’s cutting-edge Smart Hospital has joined an exclusive list of institutions meeting standards for health care simulation education.
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FIGHTING A NATIONAL NURSING FACULTY SHORTAGE
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Last year, nursing schools across the country were forced to turn away more than 90,000 qualified applicants. The reason: a lack of faculty members to teach them and clinical sites to train them.
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The Bone Muscle Research Group congratulates David Buckley and his Mentor Dr. Dan Trott! David’s abstract at the APS summit won the Seal of Distinction! Great job!
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CONHI Assistant Professor Dr. Jaquetta Reeves has been selected for a two-year virtual and in-person appointment as a Visiting Fellow in the Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS) located at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) in the Yale School of Public Health. She begins her appointment in June, when she travels to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut for a four week in-person intensive research training program.
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“I am confident this experience will help me lead in the development of robust research programs at UTA,” said Dr. Reeves. “My mentors at REIDS, CIRA, and Yale will also guide my efforts in securing external funding for future research projects.”
CONHI congratulates
Dr. Reeves!
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Clinical Associate Professor Dr. Lynda Jarrell was named the Author of the Year by The Nurse Practitioner journal at their annual conference in April. This award is presented to an individual who has demonstrated a commitment to the journal's mission to meet the needs of the nurse practitioner (and other advanced practice nurses and clinicians) by providing practical, cutting edge clinical and professional information. This recognition comes as a result of the success of her February 2022 article Asthma-COPD overlap: The NPs role in diagnosis and management. Congrats Dr. Jarrell!
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NLN Center of Excellence in Nursing Education to Enhance Student Learning and Professional Development
Shawn Tindel recognized at the Leadership Awards for University Advisor of the Year. She shares this with award with mentor Becky and Melynda as co-advisors with ANSA.
Leah De Leon, Klade Rodriquez and Promise Robinson were recognized for Leadership Achievement Awards. All from CONHI!
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Ms. Sauyeh Zamani
(PhD Candidate, Kinesiology) won the "Best Poster Award" at the Canadian Women's Heart Health Summit in Vancouver, Canada in the last weekend of April. Congratulations to her!
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Earlier this Spring, kinesiology graduate students William Capell III (MS Exercise Science) and Alexis Gant (KINE doctoral student) presented their research at the South Central American Society of Biomechanics conference in Fort Worth at the UNTHSC. The society’s research evaluation committee awarded Alexis Gant the “Best Poster”, based upon the quality of her project and the enthusiasm she demonstrated in presenting her research. “I am very happy that I got to attend this conference. I enjoyed the experience and can’t wait to attend another one,”
said Gant.
Additionally, Will Capell gave an oral presentation on tibial compression and tibial shear in midfoot runners that generated a lively scientific discussion.
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| On April 18th, CONHI faculty members, alumni, and student volunteers attended the DFW Great 100 Nurses event celebrating honored nurses in the DFW metroplex.
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CONHI Research At a Glance
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KXAN reported on how families cope with losing a mother from pregnancy. Kyrah Brown, assistant professor of public health, commented on a film, Birthing Justice, that examined the structures and systems that determine the mortality of Black women and their babies.
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Kyrah Brown, researcher and assistant professor of kinesiology, spoke with NBC 5 about the public health crisis that has led to thousands of preventable deaths of Black women and babies. UT Arlington hosted its first Black Maternal and Reproductive Health Summit. Health care professionals, doulas, students and faculty from across North Texas participated in the series of week-long events to spark conversation about Black maternal health.
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Kyrah Brown, researcher and assistant professor of kinesiology, spoke with the Fort Worth Report about the first commemorative Black Maternal Health Week in Tarrant County. The week-long event is aimed at raising awareness in attendees about solutions and means of empowerment to safeguard the pregnancy and childbirth of Black women.
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NBC 5: UTA Cuts Ribbon on Innovative Smart Hospital Building. The new addition will bring innovative teaching to nursing and social work students under one roof.
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The Shorthorn: School of Social Work and Smart Hospital commemorates opening with ribbon cutting ceremony. UTA and community members celebrate during the School of Social Work and Smart Hospital Ribbon Cutting on April 14 at the building’s courtyard. The building became operational at the start of the spring semester after two years of construction.
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CBS 11: Amid critical nursing shortage, UTA opens facility to better train healthcare students.
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It has been a busy month here at CONHI with UTA Research and Innovation Day,
the ANSA Blood Drive, a Congressional SH Tour with Rep. Jake Elzey, and
the School of Social Work and CONHI Smart Hospital Ribbon Cutting.
If you missed any of it, see below.
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