Sigma Theta Tau Sponsors Research Session at ANA Patricia Christensen Memorial Scholarship Awarded
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IN THIS ISSUE MARK YOUR CALENDAR ANA Research Presentation and Patricia Christensen 1980 - Regional Writers' Seminars Scholarship Recipient Page 1 Chicago, IL - September 29 & 30 Distinguished Leaders in Nursing Series Page 2 Philadelphia, PA - October 24 & 25 Chapter News Page 3 Lexington, KY - November 6 & 7 Chapter Chartering Ceremonies Pages 4 & 5 Sigma Theta Tau Activities at AN.A. Members Receive Doctorates Page 6 Exhibit - June 9-12 - Houston Why a Building Fund? Page 8 Research Luncheon - Wed. , June 11 , 12:00 p.m. Chapter Officers Mtg ., Wed., June 11 , 2:30 p.m. NEXT ISSUE 1981 - Regional Writers ' Seminars Look for your May / June issue of Reflections - This "research Indianapolis, IN - April 24 & 25 issue" will include a history of Sigma Theta Tau research support, regional research projects, and a record list of 1981 - Biennial Convention research contributors. November 4, 5, 6 - Minneapolis Sigma Theta Tau Vol. 6, March-April, 1980 national honor society of nursing----------------------------------- Sigma Theta Tau Sponsors Research Session At ANA "Distribution and Determinants of Peri Dr. Woods employed both cross-sectional are cordially invited to attend the luncheon. menstrual Stress" will be the subject of a and prospective design within the research Tickets will be available at the ANA Registra research paper to be presented at a Sigma design method. A personal in-home inter tion area for the luncheon in the Imperial Theta Tau sponsored research session at view with the female subjects, a health diary Ballroom East at Houston Hyatt Regency ANA on June 11. Conducted by Nancy compiled by experimental subjects over a (Wed., June 11) . Fugate Woods, R.N., Ph.D. (Psi Chapter, two-month period, and a questionnaire University of Washington, Seattle) , and her completed by each subject were sources of associates Eda Most, EdD. and Gretchen research data. Dery, M.S. , the research was funded by a Dr. Woods received her Ph.D. from the Sigma Theta Tau research grant. The study University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, focuses on the prevalence of perimenstrual North Carolina. She has served as a staff distress in a non-clinical population. Specific nurse at hospitals in Wisconsin and Washing variables studied included life stressors and ton, as a nurse clinician at Yale New Haven the woman's enacted role and sex role Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, and as norms, as well as the positive correlations of an Instructor and Assistant Professor at Duke these variables to the incidence of peri University, Durham, North Carolina. menstrual distress. All Sigma Theta Tau members and friends Nancy Woods Patricia Christensen Memorial Scholarship Awarded Cited by her professors as "scholarly, per Development is pending the completion of sistent and innovative" with "a high degree her thesis. Both degrees are from the Univer of personal integrity", Elizabeth M. Davies is sity of Arizona. Ms. Davies received her R.N. the second recipient of Sigma Theta Tau's from the University of Alberta Hospital and Patricia Smith Christensen Memorial hopes to return to the University of Alberta Scholarship. Ms. Davies will use the scholar upon completion of her doctoral program. ship toward her Ph.D. in Nursing Science at The Patricia Christensen Memorial the University of Washington School of Scholarship Fund was established as a tribute Nursing. Planning to complete her doctoral to the Canadian nursing scholar and former work in 1982, her background has been chairman of the maternity nursing depart almost exclusively in maternal-child nursing. ment at Texas Christian University, who died She holds a Masters degree in Nursing of on May 5 , 1975. Elizabeth Davies Children and a second Masters in Child Page2 Reflections I March-April, 1980 Reflections I March-April, 1980 Page3 · Distinguished Nursing Leaders Featured ( ___C_ H_AP_ T_ER_S_ IN_A_C_T_IO_ N__ ) Lectureship, Calls for Abstracts, Grants Announced Nursing students, faculty and administra One-Week Free Loan Mabel Keaton Staupers: EPSILON ZETA CHAPTER (George 1. Submit abstracts of no more than two deadline for applications is July 1. Contact tion, nursing practitioners, as well as re 16mm purchase order #A00225; price: Two subjects in 16mm black and white Mason U.) has announced the Evelyn Ellis typewritten pages to: Lois Love, Committee Jean L.J. 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York State Registered Nurse's Association M.P.H., as the keynote speaker at the sixth of the Nurse Training Act, Amendments of past Executive Oirector of the National (NYSNA) and a member of the Graduate annual Participative Research Day. Co 1979." Association of Colored Graduate Nurses Curriculum faculty at Hunter College sponsored by the chapter in cooperation KAPPA CHAPTER (Catholic U.) co (NACGN) talks about her contributions to Bellevue School of Nursing. - with the Cancer Cooperative of Springfield, sponsored an April 12 Nursing Research the field of nursing, her education, nursing BETA MU CHAPTER (U. of Arizona) MA, the program included reports on 12 Conference with the Catholic University of positions, her role in the black nurses' fight combined installation of officers and the in clinically focused research studies. America School of Nursing. 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