College of Nursing Professor Ellen Hahn, PhD, RN, FAAN, and College of Education Assistant Professor Mindy Ickes, PhD, recently received $100,000 from the CVS Health Foundation for their Tobacco-free Ambassadors Partnership (TAP): Linking K-12 Schools and Community Colleges project.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
The Perinatal Assistance and Treatment Home (PATHways), an interdisciplinary opioid maintenance program at UK HealthCare, helps women break free of addiction during a transformative time in their lives — pregnancy. Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Research Kristin Ashford, PhD, WHNP-BC, FAAN, serves as an investigator in the PATHways study.
Monday, July 18, 2016
A new study co-authored by College of Nursing Professor Ellen Hahn, PhD, RN, FAAN, found that roughly 15 percent of college students who had ever used tobacco currently use more than one tobacco product. Polytobacco use (using more than one tobacco product) drives nicotine addiction and can prolong the use of tobacco products, leading to acute and chronic negative health risks such as lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and more.
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
After working at the bedside in critical care, emergency medicine and as a rapid response nurse for seven years, PhD student Shannon Parsley, RN, BSN, CEN, felt in her gut that something wasn’t quite right—her passion aligned more with improving patient outcomes and the undeniable injustices she frequently witnessed in the health care system.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Stanton Glantz, PhD, professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco and American Legacy Foundation Distinguished Professor of Tobacco Control, will speak at this year's 2016 Smoke-free Spring Conference hosted by the Kentucky Center for Smoke-free Policy on April 28.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Kristin Ashford, PhD, WHNP-BC, FAAN, assistant dean of research at the UK College of Nursing, and Nicole Waite, an administrative support associate for UK HealthCare Nurse Recruitment, received the Sarah Bennett Holmes Award during a luncheon ceremony at the Hilary J. Boone Center on March 10.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Alex Elswick and Amanada Fallin, an assistant professor in the UK College of Nursing and vice president for Voices of Hope-Lexington, joined a coalition of community members and city government officials to develop an online treatment database, GetHelpLex.org.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
This year's annual Research Challenge Trust Fund report, approved by the UK Board of Trustees Feb. 19, featured Ellen J. Hahn, PhD, RN, FAAN, for her tobacco control research.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
An anti-smoking intervention implemented and studied by University of Kentucky College of Nursing assistant professor Amanda Fallin recently proved effective in counteracting pro-tobacco promotions and ending the presence of free or low-cost tobacco products in LGBT social venues.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Seventeen years ago, after the 1998 State Tobacco Settlement, Kentucky made a promise to use a portion of the settlement funds to find solutions to the public health problems caused by tobacco. Today, Kentucky brings in $302 million dollars a year from tobacco, yet the state spends less than 1 percent of this revenue — $2.5 million per year — on preventing tobacco use.