Research Portfolio
When you join the IU School of Nursing, you become a part of an organization that is leading the way to improve lives through nursing research. Over the past decade, our research efforts have risen to national prominence in external funding, university/campus internal funding, and school funding. We invite you to meet our faculty who are currently conducting funded research in education and clinical sciences. Many of these faculty are internationally and nationally known experts in their fields of study!
Current Externally Funded Research
Carpenter, Janet
Impact of the "Hot Flashes? Cool!" Prototype Exhibit on Learning and Change Outcomes
Pfizer, End Date: December 2018
Carter-Harris, Lisa
Lung Cancer Screening: Identifying Factors Associated with Participation
National Cancer Institute, End Date: March 2020
Understanding Barriers for Adoption of Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines: Exploring the Influence of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Stigma on Practices and Referral Patterns in Primary Care
American Lung Association, End Date: June 2019
Champion, Victoria
Comparative Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Screening among Rural Women
National Cancer Institute/The Ohio State University, End Date: July 2020
Research and Training for Behavioral Oncology Interventions
National Cancer Institute, End Date: April, 2019
Interdisciplinary Training in Behavioral Oncology
National Cancer Institute, End Date: August 2021
Champion, Victoria
Student: Biederman, Erika
Graduate Scholarship in Cancer Nursing Practice
American Cancer Society, End Date: June 2019
Chang, Pei Shun
Physical and Psychological Effects of Qigong Exercise in Community-dwelling older African Americans
Sigma Theta Tau Alpha Chapter, End Date: December 2018
Draucker, Claire B
Technology-based health behavior intervention with at-risk teens in shelters
University of Cincinnati-NIH/NICHD, End Date: June 2019
Ellis, Rebecca
Development and Testing of Real-time Antihypertensive Medication Adherence Feedback Messages in CKD: InterACT mHealth Intervention
Sigma Theta Tau International Alpha Chapter, End Date: April 2019
Fulton, Janet
Nurse Faculty Loan Program
Health Resources and Services Administration, End Date: indefinite
Hickman, Susan
Walther Advance Care Planning Systems Integration and Implementation
Walther Cancer Foundation, End Date: June 2019
The Quality of POLST Decisions in the Nursing Facility Setting
The National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Nursing Research, End Date: May 2019
The Quality of Advance Care Planning Documentation in the Nursing Home
The Retirement Research Foundation, End Date: September 2018
A Nursing Home Pragmatic Clinical Trial of APPROACHES (Aligning Patient Preferences: a Role Offering Alzheimer’s patient, Caregivers, and Healthcare providers Education and Support
NIH/NIA (R21/R33), End Date: August 2019
Jung, Miyeon
Testing a Model of Cognitive Function with APOE and BDNF Genes and Heart Failure
National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center/University of Washington
Knopf, Amelia
Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, End Date: September 2019
Newhouse, Robin
Phased Multisite Cluster Randomized Trials Testing Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for People that use Tobacco, Alcohol, and Non-Prescription Drugs
Indiana University Health Values Fund Grand Challenge, End Date: July 2019
Otte, Julie
Future of Nursing Scholars Program
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, End Date: July 2021
Jonas Scholarship Program
Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare, End date: August 2020
Pittman, Joy
Unavoidable Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, End Date: December 2018
Pressler, Susan
Cognitive Intervention to Improve Memory in Heart Failure Patients
Department of Health and Human Services/NIH, End Date: June 2021
Using Short Stay Units Instead of Routine Admission to Improve Patient Centered Health Outcomes for AHF Patients
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, End Date: August 2021
Rawl, Susan M.
Comparing Interventions to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening in Low-Income and Minority Patients
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), End Date: May 2021
Reising, Deanna
Student: Kimberly McNealy
Understanding of Interprofessional Communication to Impact Patient Safety in the Operating Room
IN Nurses Foundation, End Date: October, 2018
Robb, Sheri
Mechanisms of Active Music Engagements to Improve Health Outcomes of Children with Cancer Parents
National Institute of Nursing Research, End Date: May, 2019
Stiffler, Deborah
Racial Equity Considerations in Safe to Sleep Messaging: Learning from the Community
Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, End Date: October 2018
Von Ah, Diane
Student: Adele Nielsen Crouch
Doctoral Scholarship in Cancer Nursing
American Cancer Society, End Date: June 2019
