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April 25, 2008
Arizona State health-care expert to speak on evidence-based practice
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - |
Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Distinguished Foundation Professor in Nursing at ASU, will give the talk in conjunction with the Pioneer Speaker Series led by Discovery Park's Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering.
The lecture, titled "The State of Evidence-Based Practice with a Vision for the Future," is free and open to the public. A reception will follow at the Burton Morgan Center. For more information, contact Mary Schultz at (765) 494-9828, schultm@purdue.edu.
For more than 20 years, Melnyk has served as a pediatric and psychiatric nurse practitioner in pediatric primary care and child/adolescent inpatient and outpatient mental health-service settings.
She also founded and serves as chair of KySS (Keep Your Children/Yourself Safe and Secure), a national mental health promotion campaign for children and teenagers. The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, along with 22 national nursing and interdisciplinary professional organizations, sponsors the organization.
In 2002 Melnyk was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and received the Distinguished Contributions to Nursing Research Award from the Eastern Nursing Research Society. She was named a distinguished practitioner in the National Academies of Practice and has received numerous awards from nursing organizations.
She recently was appointed to the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine sectoral strategy working group and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Melnyk earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from the West Virginia University School of Nursing and a master's degree in nursing care in children and pediatric nurse practitioner from the University of Pittsburgh. She received her doctorate in clinical nursing research from the University of Rochester in New York.Writer: Phillip Fiorini, (765) 496-3133, pfiorini@purdue.edu
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