Project Title: "Facilitating Awareness and Cultivating Educational Success" (FACES)
Principle Investigator: Maria Smith
Collaborative Investigators: Mary Jane Lavendar, Pam Holder, Linda Covington, Steven Krau, Martina Harris
Funding Source: This project is supported by funds from the Division of Nursing (DN), Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) under grant no. 1 D19 HP 40407-01, The FACES Project to Promote Workforce Diversity for $465,397 from 2002-2005.

Project Title: "Factors Predicting Success for Women Who are Trying to Remain Abstinent from Drug Use"
Principle Investigator: Patricia Burlin
Collaborative Investigators: Karen Ward; Linda Hazel, Women’s Center Program; Dr. Nancy Hepler, University of Memphis
Funding Source: Awarded $300 research grant from Xi Alpha Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International

Project Title: "Benefits of a Nurse Managed Wellness Program: A Senior Center Model"
Principle Investigator: Judy Campbell

Project Title: "International Health Promotion"
Principle Investigator: Linda Covington

Project Title: "Faculty Workload in Online Instruction"
Principle Investigator: Pam Holder

Project Title: "The Experience of Bereavement in Recently Widowed Elderly Men"
Principle Investigator: Stephen Krau
Collaborative Investigator(s): Lynn Parsons
Funding Source: American Holistic Nurses Association (award pending, $1000) and Southern Nursing Research Association

Project Title:  "The Response to Stress and "Hard Times" by Elderly Christian Women"
Principle Investigator: Mary Jane Lavender

Project Title: "Determining Delegation Decision-Making Knowledge for Registered Nurses (RN) Caring for Acute and Chronically Ill Orthopaedic Patients"
Principle Investigator: Lynn Parsons
Funding Source: Awarded $2000 from the National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses (NAON) and the American Academy Of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)

Project Title: "Determining Delegation Decision-Making Knowledge for Registered Nurses (RN) Caring for Acute and Chronically Ill Orthopaedic Patients"
Principle Investigator: Lynn Parsons
Funding Source: Awarded $4000 from the Orthopaedic Nurses Foundation

Project Title: "Determining Delegation Decision-Making Knowledge for Nurses Practicing in Long-Term Care with Spinal Cord Impaired Pates in the Southeastern United States"
Principle Investigator: Lynn Parsons
Collaborative Investigator(s): Suzanne Prevost
Funding Source: American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Nurses (funding pending, $14,022)

Project Title: "A Comparison of Certified and Noncertified Critical Care Nurses"
Principle Investigator: Suzanne Prevost
Collaborative Investigator(s): Lynn Parsons, Stephen Krau
Funding Source: American Association of Critical Care Nurses (funding pending, $9,863)

Project Title: "UTMB Hospitals Nursing Staff Opinion Survey"
Principle Investigator: Suzanne Prevost
Funding Source: Sherwood, Davis & Geck

Project Title: "Evaluation of Nurses’ Knowledge and Attitudes Related to Pain Management"
Principle Investigator: Suzanne Prevost
Collaborative Investigator(s): Mary Jane Lavender, Sheila Marquart, Pat O’Leary
Funding Source: University of Texas Nursing Service

Project Title: "Outcomes Research in Nursing Administration Project"
Principle Investigator: Barbara Mark, Virginia Commonwealth University
Collaborative Investigator(s): Suzanne Prevost, Site Coordinator
Funding Source: National Institute of Nursing Research

Project Title: "Pain and Comfort Management: Process and Outcome Improvement"
Principle Investigator: Suzanne Prevost
Funding Source: AACN and Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc

Project Title: "Improving Pain Management through Research"
Principle Investigator: Suzanne Prevost
Funding Source: Awarded $7,746 by the MTSU Research and Creative Activity Committee for Academic Year Research Grant

Project Title: "Efficacy of Interventions on Compliance in Post Renal Transplant Recipients"
Principle Investigator: Maria A. Smith
Collaborative Investigator(s): Donna Hathaway, University of TN, Memphis
Funding Source: Awarded $9,985 from the North American Transplant Coordinators Organization (NATCO)

Project Title: "Computer Based Evaluation Components for a Course in Nursing"
Principle Investigator: Maria A. Smith
Funding Source:  Awarded $1,550 from MTSU’s Instructional Evaluation and Development Grant Program

Project Title: "MTSU/South Africa Project"
Principle Investigator: Maria A. Smith
Collaborative Investigator(s): Hari Garbharran, Project Director; Jo Edwards, Peggy O'Hara-Murdock
Funding Source: External Funding from various resources

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