• UMDNJ-SN has partnered with the New Jersey Preparedness Training Consortium. Please visit the NJ-PTC website for details.
• UMDNJ Office of the President has posted a draft of the Strategic Plan for FY 2006-2010 for review.

Honors

• Dr. Susan W. Salmond, Interim Dean received the 2007 C.A.R.E Award for Excellence in Education, the highest honor bestowed by the New Jersey State Nurses Association at the 10th Annual New Jersey Nursing Convention in March.

Presentations

Publications

• “Attitudes Toward Advance Directives And Advance Directive Completion Rates.” Salmond, S., in Orthopaedic Nursing Journal, 24(2).
• “Patients on maintenance hemodialysis with low vs. high levels of nutrition risk have decreased morbidity”, co – authored by Burrowes JD, Dalton S, Backstrand JR, Levin, in NW Journal of the American Dietetics Association; 105: 563-572, 2005.
• “The experiences of young Korean immigrants: A grounded theory of negotiating social, cultural, and generational boundaries,” by Sun Seog Kim, PhD, RN, C.S., Assistant Professor, in Issues in Mental Health Nursing (2004).25(5). In addition, Dr Kim co-authored “Correlates of postpartum emotional distress in mothers with multiple sclerosis”, Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 33, and “Personal factors influencing Korean American men’s smoking behavior: Addiction, health and, age”, Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 19.

UMDNJ-SN is proud to anounce that three faculty members have just recieved funding for the following grants:

• Sun S. Kim, PhD, RN, CS: Evaluation of a theoretical model predicting Korean American men's smoking cessation and abstinence
• Leslie-Faith Morritt Taub, DNSc, ANP-C, GNP-BC: A comparison among sleep symptoms of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Hypopnea Syndrome, difficulty sleeping and excessive daytime sleepiness and diabetes severity.