The Ohio Department of Aging (ODA) today unveiled plans for the Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias Statewide Resource Program, a collaborative effort led by ODA in partnership with The Ohio State University College of Nursing, the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) and several other contributing organizations.

The statewide initiative will use several approaches to build and develop a dementia-prepared caregiver workforce in Ohio. The program’s plans include providing an array of resources to paid and unpaid caregivers and industry professionals, including:

The National Institute of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded a five-year $2,766,520 R01 grant to fund the study titled, “Cognitive Training for Cancer-related Cognitive Impairment: A Multi-Center Randomized Controlled Trial.” The grant was awarded to Diane Von Ah, PhD, RN, FAAN, Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research and Director of Cancer Research in the Center for Healthy Aging, Self-Management and Complex Care at The Ohio State College of Nursing.

Colleges of Nursing and Medicine and Wexner Medical Center work to create solutions for underrepresentation in clinical trials

The National Institute of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) has awarded a $945,000 three-year R01 grant to fund the study titled, “A Family-Dyad-Focused Diabetes Self-Management Intervention for African American Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.” The grant was awarded to Jie Hu, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor in the Center for Healthy Aging, Self-Management and Complex Care at The Ohio State College of Nursing. Co-investigators include Lorraine C.

The Cambia Health Foundation has announced the selection of 12 emerging palliative care leaders for its Sojourns® Scholar Leadership Program, which includes College of Nursing assistant professor Dr. Karen Moss. In its ninth year, this program identifies, cultivates and advances the next generation of palliative care leaders.

New research led by College of Nursing associate professor Mei-Wei Chang suggests coaching overweight or obese pregnant women to improve their ability to plan and make progress toward goals may be key to helping them lower the amount of fat in their diet.

Three-year project will utilize two evidence-based programs to prevent nurse suicide 

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) has awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant to a partnership of The Ohio State University, the University of California San Diego and the American Nurses Association to determine the best intervention strategy for preventing nurse suicide.

Crowdsourcing study focuses on frequency, causes of coma in U.S. and United Kingdom

A newly-published study conducted jointly by eighteen neuroscientists from the United States and Europe – including two researchers from The Ohio State University College of Nursing and Wexner Medical Center – and using crowdsourcing as an information-gathering method reveals the first epidemiologic data on coma in the United Kingdom and the U.S.

Study led by The Ohio State University College of Nursing published today in the American Journal of Infection Control

American Nurses Foundation chooses 10 bold ideas to transform health care

A collaboration of The Ohio State University Colleges of Nursing and Engineering to use extended reality (XR), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to revolutionize nursing education has received a highly-competitive grant from the American Nurses Foundation’s (The Foundation) Reimagining Nursing Initiative.