Research - Faculty Research

Research Activities and Funded Projects

Funded Faculty Research Projects

Jo Azzarello, PhD, RN, Problem-solving Skills and Strategies for Glycemic Control, funded by Native American EXPORT Center (12/1/06 to 11/30/07).
Lazelle Benefield, PhD, RN, Distance Caregiving of CI Elders Living Alone at Home, funded by the NIH, National Institute of Nursing Research (8/1/05 to 7/31/07).
Lazelle Benefield, PhD, RN, Distance Family Care Coordination of Home Dwelling Persons with Dementia” from the Alzheimer’s Association, $193,000 (2007-2009).
Kathleen Dwyer, PhD, RN, Fostering Post-Treatment Transitions in African-American Breast Cancer Survivors” from NINR, $402, 875 (2007-2009).
Valerie Eschiti, PhD, RN, CHTP, AHN-BC, & Radcliffe, S., RNC, MN, MHR, CNS, OCN, Nursing Faculty and Student Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Complementary and Alternative Medicine, funded by Sigma Theta Tau, Beta Delta Chapter-at-Large Research Study Grant (2007).
Valerie Eschiti, PhD, RN, CHTP, AHN-BC, The Lived Experience of Postoperative Mastectomy Patients Receiving Healing Touch, funded by Healing Touch International.
Valerie Johnson, PhD, MSN, RN, received the 2007 Mary Elizabeth Carnegie, DPA, MA, RN, FAAN Scholar Award through the American Nurses Foundation to support a study entitled "Participation of Native Americans and African Americans in Genetic and Genomic Research," $3,500 (2007-2008).

Funded Training Grants

Evelyn Acheson, PhD, RN, Bolivian Ayore Indian Indigenous Health Worker Training Project, funded by AMB Foundation (7/1/06 to 6/30/07).
Deborah Booton-Hiser, PhD, RN, ARNP, Advanced Education Nursing Grants, funded by Public Health Service (6/29/04 to 6/30/07).
Nancy Chu, PhD, APRN, BC, FNGNA, Health Needs of Vietnamese-American Elders, funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Program (7/1/06 to 6/30/08).
Patricia Dolphin, PhD, RN, Advanced Education Nursing Traineeships, funded by HRSA (7/1/02 to 6/30/08).
Patricia Dolphin, PhD, RN, Creating Careers in Geriatric Advanced Practice Nursing, funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation through the AACN (7/1/06 to 6/30/07).
Kay Edwards, DrPH, ARNP, BC, Nursing Workforce Diversity, funded by DHHS/HRSA (7/1/05 to 6/30/08).
Geraldine Ellison, PhD, RN, Basic Nurse Education and Practice, funded by HRSA (7/1/04 to 6/30/07).
Geraldine Ellison, PhD, RN, Extending Health Promotion Services to Underserved School-Age Children in Tulsa, funded by AETNA (8/1/06 to 7/31/07).
Geraldine Ellison, PhD, RN, Increasing Baccalaureate-Prepared Nurses in Northeastern Oklahoma, funded by OSHRE (8/1/06 to 7/31/07).
Geraldine Ellison, PhD, RN, Expanding Basic Nursing Education in Rural Oklahoma, HRSA, $828,998 (7/1/07-6/30/10).
Patricia Forni, PhD, RN, FAAN, American Indian Nursing Student Success Program, funded by HIS (PHS, DHHS), (8/1/03 to 7/31/08).
Patricia Forni, PhD, RN, FAAN, American Indian Alaska Native MS to PhD Nursing Science Bridge Program, funded by NIGMS, NIH, PHS (7/1/04 to 7/31/07)
Patricia Forni, PhD, RN, FAAN, Accelerated Tracks Preparing BSN Registered Nurses, Phase I, funded by Foundation Management Inc. (7/1/04 to 6/31/11).
Patricia Forni, PhD, RN, FAAN, Accelerated Post Baccalaureate Tracks Preparing Nursing Faculty, Phase II, $3 Million funded by the Frank Merrick Foundation (7/1/07-6/30/13).
Jana Pressler, PhD, RN, "Advancing the Nursing PHD in Oklahoma," funded by HRSA, $730,841 (7/1/08-6/30/09).

School of Nursing Intramural Program Small Grant Awards

Valerie Eschiti, PhD, RN, CHTP, AHN-BC, Talking Circles for Breast Health, funded by the OUHSC College of Nursing Seed Grant Program.