Nursing research has lasting impact

Kitzman

omen and families in approximately 250 communities in 23 states around the nation now benefit from an in-home visitation program that researchers at the School of Nursing helped to create more than 20 years ago.

Continuing in the tradition, a similar research program in the School of Nursing has received a major boost, with a training grant of $1.2 million from the National Institute of Nursing Research.

"Researchers will include nurses who are confronting questions in their clinical practice for which we currently have no answers," says Harriet Kitzman, the Loretta Ford Professor of Nursing, who heads the program. "They're facing some of the major challenges in society today related to the health of our children."

The training program is part of the School of Nursing's Center for High-Risk Children and Youth, headed by Marilyn Aten, associate professor of nursing. In the two years since it was created, the center has attracted more than $5 million in research funding.

The five-year training grant will support the salaries and work of three new researchers each year, contributing to the training of 15 nurses. The research study will focus on issues affecting high-risk children and youth, namely treating substance abuse more effectively, recognizing and living with chronic illnesses such as asthma, and reducing truancy.

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