Category Archives: Research

The grant will provide scholarships for UCF graduate nurse practitioner students and expand academic-practice partnerships in Central Florida. Read More

Top initiatives were selected from a competitive group of 18 proposals, including an HIV research project from Christa Cook and team. Read More

The U.S. population is aging quickly, and the AARP estimates that one out of every five adults in the country will be 65 or older by 2030. Aging expert and UCF College of Nursing Assistant Professor Ladda Thiamwong is helping ensure the City of Orlando is better able to support and improve the quality of […]

The third annual awards recognize researchers, including nursing’s Dr. Vicki Loerzel, for being academic leaders making an impact on the world through their studies and scholarship. Read More

Carmen Giurgescu, a national certified women’s health nurse practitioner with nearly two decades of clinical experience and 14 years of research in the field, has recently joined the UCF College of Nursing as the new Associate Dean of Research and Chatlos Foundation Endowed Chair in Nursing, after an extensive national search. Her research, which has […]

The findings from Dr. Christa Cook and her research team suggest changes may be needed in how counseling of HIV patients is done. Read More

Ladda Thiamwong, an assistant professor of nursing, has been honored by the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence as a Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing. She is among 33 nurse educators from around the world in the inaugural class who were honored for their commitment to gerontological nursing education and the care of older […]

Michelle Tall ’17MSN is one of two nurses nationwide to receive McKnight Doctoral Fellowship. BY COLLEGE OF NURSING | NOVEMBER 28, 2018 Caring for others is ingrained in nursing PhD student Michelle Tall ’17MSN. “Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, from a family of immigrants, the art of caring was a way of life,” said Tall. […]

BY COLLEGE OF NURSING It’s a fact. Children behave and communicate differently than adults. For healthcare providers, the verbal and nonverbal nuances of children’s behavior can be critically important for diagnosis and treatment. However, current training tools are limited in their capability to replicate a pediatric patient. Standardized child patients, or actors, are not readily […]

By UCF College of Nursing Two research projects using healthcare simulation have received $10,000 Program Innovation Awards from UCF for the What’s Next, Quality Enhancement Plan. The grants are awarded to projects that seek to improve student learning outcomes by making changes either to existing programs or by creating new programs. Acute Care A team led […]