A great number of DUSON community members recently presented at the 2019 Southern Nursing Research Society (SNRS) Conference "Imagining the Future through Nursing Research and Innovation" in Orlando, FL. Presenters include:

• Nicole Calhoun, PhD student, presented "DeStress for Health: Partnering with Granville and Vance Counties to Reduce Stress."
• Allison Stafford, postdoctoral associate, presented "Facilitators and Barriers to Depression Treatment Engagement among Latina Adolescents." This poster won second place in the top student poster discussion session.
• Eunji Cho, PhD student, presented "Trajectory Typologies of Affective Symptoms in Maternal Caregivers of Children Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A 1-year Longitudinal Study."
• Nicole Caviness-Ashe, Bridge Scholar, presented "Exploring the Relationship among Social Support, Patient-Centered Communication and Mental Health Status among Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Survivors."
• Uzoji Nwanaji, Bridge Scholar, presented "Association between Psychosocial Stress and Hypertension, the NHLBI Family Heart Study."
• Yesol Yang, PhD student, presented "The Mediating Role of Caregiver Burden on the Relationship between Concentration Problems and Emotional Distress among Patients with Hematologic Malignancies."
• Debra Brandon, associate professor, presented "Bundled Nurse Caregiving Activities for Stable Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit."

Several faculty members led a Pre-Conference "Leveraging Big Data to Improve the Quality and Safety of Patient Care." Faculty members who presented include:

• Victoria Goode, assistant professor, presented "A Patient Safety Dilemma: Obesity in the Surgical Patient."
• Nancy Crego, assistant professor, presented "Differences in Type of Pediatric Adverse Events in Radiology Depending on the Sedation Provider."
• Deirdre Thornlow, assistant professor, presented "Relationship of Safety Practices to Patient Outcomes."
• Michael Cary, associate professor, presented "Inpatient Rehabilitation Outcomes for Medicare Beneficiaries With Hip Fracture."