Professors Maher El-Masri and Lorna de Witt have received a Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care grant for their research study titled "Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Nurse Practitioner-Led Outreach Program for Long-Term Care Homes."
Professors Maher El-Masri and Lorna de Witt have received a Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care grant for their research study titled "Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Nurse Practitioner-Led Outreach Program for Long-Term Care Homes."
Two UWindsor researchers hope their recent study findings on local childhood obesity rates will help area health officials hammer home their message that kids need to eat healthier and get more physical activity. “Now that we have local data we’re really hoping that we can tailor some health promotion strategies and programs to the information that we obtained,” said Sarah Woodruff, an assistant professor in kinesiology. Along with Kathy Fryer, a lecturer in the Faculty of Nursing, Woodruff helped lead a team of researchers who discovered that Grade 7 students in Windsor and Essex County have higher than national average rates for being overweight or obese.
The team surveyed more than 1,000 students at 26 schools from both area boards and found that 42 percent of them were either overweight or obese, compared to the national average of 34 percent. The study also found:
Heidi Wong is remembered as a sweet and kind student who will be missed by her friends and classmates. The 19-year-old student, who had just completed her first year in the collaborative nursing program, died June 14.
She would have made a wonderful nurse, said Jacqueline Mellish, residence life coordinator in Wong's residence, Macdonald Hall. "She was always very sweet and nice," Mellish said. "Heidi was part of a group of friends who participated together in activities on the 10th floor."
Campus flags will be lowered Friday in Wong's memory. Funeral services are planned for Saturday in Markham, Ontario.
"Medical mannequins no dummies" - Video about the Faculty of Nursing Simulation Lab from The Windsor Star
"Emergency in the 'sim room'" - Article about the Faculty of Nursing Simulation Lab from The Windsor Star
"University applauds nursing expansion" - Article about the Faculty of Nursing's approved expansion on the 3rd Floor Medical Education Building, from The Windsor Star
"Grant money to boost U of W programs" - Article about the 2011 Strategic Priority Fund investments, including the development of a Post-Graduate Diploma in Advanced Practiced Oncology/Palliative Care Nursing, from The Windsor Star
University of Windsor researchers shared the top honours at a poster competition last week at the University of Windsor-Oakland University Teaching and Learning Conference. Drama instructor Esther Van Eek's (Un)Learning: Rediscovering the Creative Self and nursing instructors Debbie Rickeard and Judy Bornais' Drama in Trauma received the Dr. Wilbert J. McKeachie International Poster Prize.
The third floor of the Medical Education Building will be used to facilitate research collaboration and for simulation labs for nursing and medical students under a plan approved Tuesday by the University's Board of Governors. The University will tender the project for completion of the space, which has been unused while the first two floors were opened to the Windsor program of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry in 2008. The project calls for research collaboration space of:
Nursing facilities will include simulation and health assessment labs with viewing rooms, primary care and infection control isolation rooms, offices and a simulated patient area. Completing the features are a simulation lab with viewing room for medical students and a common area with student lounge and informal meeting spaces.