Publications and Presentations
Drake researchers and physical therapists gained national notoriety with an article published in the May 2009 "Physical Therapy: The Journal of the American Physical Therapy Assn." entitled "Neuroprosthesis Peroneal Functional Electrical Stimulation in the Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Setting: A Case Series." It was coauthored by Kari Dunning, P.T., Ph.D., Director of Research at Drake Center, along with therapists and researchers, Kristy Black, Andrea Harrison, Keith McBride and Susan Israel. The article was a result of a career ladder project idea from Drake physical therapists, Kristy Black and Andrea Harrison. Read abstract.
For 2007-2008
Articles, 2008
Articles, 2007
* Investigators include Drake Center clinicians, University of Cincinnati researchers based and conducting research at Drake Center, and researchers from other academic institutions.
Recent awards
LuAnn Reed, MSN, RNC, WCC received the Outstanding Research in Wound Care Award through the National Alliance of Wound Care. LuAnn is Wound Care Program Manager/URI Clinical Manager at Drake Center. She was presented the award at the national conference in Baltimore in September 2007. The criteria for the award was: Contributes to the development of the practice of wound care through research; collaborates with colleagues and other wound care professionals to facilitate research; communicates research findings through publication and presentation at professional meetings; actively promotes utilization of research in practice or education; mentors the development of other researchers.
Mary Arnold Long, MSN, RN, CRRN, CWOCN, ACNS-BC, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Advanced Wound Care, recently became only the second person in the U.S. to be certified Full Scope (wound, ostomy and continence) as an advanced practice Certified Wound Ostomy Care Nurse. Most advanced practice colleagues are certified in only one or two of the specialties.
Mary Arnold-Long also received a national grant from WOCN to fund her prospective study investigating incontinence-associated dermatitis in a long-term acute care facility.
Alice Mathew, RN, MSN, CRNI, critical care clinical nurse educator, has been chosen to present at the Infusion Nurses Society's annual meeting and industrial exhibition, in May 2009 in Nashville, Tennessee. The abstract Alice will present is titled, "Determining the Effect of Changing Central Line Needless Hubcaps Prior to Obtaining Blood Samples from a Central Line." Alice is the only nurse from Ohio selected for the abstract presentation that will be featured in the July-August Issue of the Journal of Infusion Nursing. Professionals from as far away as China have been selected to present at the conference.
It is true that from Ohio, I am the only one selected for the abstract presentation in the INS National meeting in May 2009. My manuscript on this research is accepted by the Journal of Infusion Nursing for publication and will be published in the July-August issue. People from China also presenting in the conference. That means, they received abstracts internationally.
Alice Mathew also received two national awards in 2008. She won the Showcase in Nursing Research Excellence Award at the 2008 Showcase in Nursing Excellence Conference at Troy University in Alabama. She also received the Gardner Foundation Research Grant Award at the Infusion Nursing Society (INS) National conference in Phoenix, Arizona. This INS grant funds her study investigating the sensitivity and specificity of PICC line blood draws.