CNPD Research News: January 2025

Recent Research & Scholarship Activities

Reported activities can also be found on the CNPD Publication & Scholarly Work Website

Reported as of January 1st, 2025.

Congratulations!

• The CNPD department of Nursing continues to collaborate and partner with the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the Center for Rural Health in authoring Chapter 8 on North Dakota’s Nursing Workforce as part of the Eighth Biennial Report: Health Issues for the State of North Dakota. Dr. Rhoda Owens and Dr. Jana Zwilling completed a secondary data analysis on available nursing workforce data in the state and reported a summary in this chapter. In addition, implications for policy, practice, and research are included throughout the chapter.
• Congratulations to Johanna Lemke, who recently published an article alongside co-authors. Alleviating Bedside Nurse Burden: A Virtual Nursing Program was published in Nurse Leader! Johanna is currently in the dissertation phase of her program and is on track to graduate in about a year.
• Dr. Rhoda Owens & Dr. Dawn Denny, Pre-licensure Nursing Student Perceptions on Their Nurse Professional Identity. 49th Annual Midwest Nursing Research Conference, Indianapolis, March 26 – March 29, 2025, (abstract accepted for a podium/paper presentation).
• Dr. Jennifer Schlinger provided training in December on Trauma-Informed Care to Child Protection employees from Western Prairie Health and Human Services in Minnesota.
• Dr. Rhoda Owens, Dr. Jana Zwilling, and Dr. Jacqueline Reep-Jarmin had an abstract, The North Dakota nursing retention study: A cross-sectional descriptive study and collaboration between nursing education programs, healthcare employers, and the nursing workforce, accepted for a podium/paper presentation at the 2025 Dakota Conference on Rural and Public Health, Bismarck, ND, June 18, 2025.
• Dr. June-Yung Kim published a co-authored paper with her colleagues: Lee, J., Lee, J. M., Kim, J. H., Lee, H., & Kim, J. Y. (2024). Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resilience: The Indirect Effect of a Sense of Purpose in Life. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 1-14.
• Dr. Dawn Denny had a paper, Relationship of the Delirium Risk Classifier Score and Post-Operative Cognitive Function, accepted for presentation at the Midwest Nursing Research Society (MNRS) in Indianapolis, IN, scheduled for March 26-29, 2025.

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