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Recent appointments, presentations, publications and honors in the College of Health Sciences include the following:

Presentations

Kimberly Hopkins听补苍诲听Caren Coffy-McCormick, instructor and assistant professor, respectively, in the School of Nursing, presented at the Sigma Theta Tau Lambda Eta Fall 2022 Substance Use Disorders Conference held in Salisbury, Maryland.听The purpose of the conference is to educate other health professionals on substance abuse聽faced by healthcare workers. Their presentation emphasized spreading awareness about the聽, which offers a variety of resources and services to assist nurses and other professionals in their recovery process without fear of losing their jobs. This program operates as an agreement to check in twice a month with a contact, provide coaching, structure reinforcement, coordinate care and engage community support to aid and ensure a successful and lasting recovery. To best serve individual needs and engagement, there are three methods of enrollment: self-voluntarily, referral by a third party or mandate through board order. The program also offers toxicology testing, case monitoring, a website for licensees and evaluations to determine the best treatment plan. 鈥淲e want nurses and other health professionals to know that it鈥檚 not over if they鈥檙e facing these challenges,鈥� Hopkins said. 鈥淭here are programs that can help with recovery by allowing people to continue working, maintain sobriety and prevent聽relapses.听No one wakes up in the morning and chooses to have a drug addiction. It鈥檚 important that we care for each other as nurses 鈥� to destigmatize these issues in our field and strive to turn inward our profession and help everyone who is struggling.鈥澛�

Honors

Elizabeth Orsega-Smith,聽professor聽in the聽Department of Behavioral Health and Nutrition, was recently awarded the 2022 Excellence in Scholarly Community Engagement Award, which highlights a faculty member鈥檚 excellence in community engaged teaching, research and service. The award provides $5,000 to be shared with an identified community partner, the聽Howard Weston Senior Center.听Orsega-Smith was nominated for this award for her extensive experience engaging more than 1,800 students in community-based research, focused on improvement of health and wellbeing for at-risk populations throughout Delaware and the surrounding area. One of the highlights of her recent research has been using scholarship initiatives, such as the Summer Service Learning and Community Engaged Scholar Program, to provide opportunities for research in聽local senior centers聽with health-based programs. By implementing the Nintendo Wii platform in senior living centers, students have been able to help seniors find a new way to boost physical engagement through activities such as bowling, baseball, tennis and golf. Additionally, students have organized a variety of other events to continue engaging seniors both cognitively and physically.

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