Presentations

Carver, K. (2025). Living with T2DM and a CGM Device: A Phenomenological Analysis. SNRS 39th Annual Conference in Memphis, February, 2024.

Montgomery, K. S. (2024). Breech birth: What's Happening Nationally and Internationally? Poster presentation for the Association of Women's Health, Obstetrics, & Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) in Scottsdale, AZ June 8-10. 

Pi-Ming Yeh, Cheng-Huei Chiao, & Jennchang Liou. (2024). Comparisons of Spiritual Well-being, Psychological Well-being, and Suicidal Ideation between USA and Taiwanese College Students. Virtual oral presentation at the Sigma 35th International Nursing Research Congress in Singapore, on August 6-8, 2024. 

Yeh, P. M., Chiao, Cheng-Huei, & Liou, Jennchang (2024). Comparisons of Spiritual Well-being, Psychological Well-being, and Suicidal Ideation between USA and Taiwanese College Students. Southern Nursing Research Society (SNRS) 38th Annual Conference, Podium Presentation, on February 21-23, 2024. Theme of the Conference: Collaborating to Advance Nursing Research, Education, Leadership, and Practice.

Yeh, P. M., Chiao, Cheng-Huei, & Liou, Jennchang (2024). Comparisons of Using Alcohol, Coping Strategies, and Mental Health Between US and Taiwanese Students. Clinical Research poster Presentation at the 31st National Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Conference. Wednesday, April 17 - Thursday, April 18, 2024. University of Iowa Health Care.

Yeh, P. M., Chiao, Cheng-Huei, & Liou, Jennchang (2024). Comparisons of US and Taiwanese College Students' Psychological Well-being and Suicidal Ideation. Clinical Research poster presentation at the 31st National Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Conference. Wednesday, April 17 - Thursday, April 18, 2024. University of Iowa Health Care.

Pi-Ming Yeh, Cheng-Huei Chiao, & Jennchang Liou. (2024). Comparisons of Spiritual Well-being, Psychological Well-being, and Suicidal Ideation between USA and Taiwanese College Students. Podium Presentation at Epsilon Sigma At-Large Chapter Research Day, April 11, 2024. Hosted by College of Nursing, East Tennessee State University. Location: D.P. Culp Student Center, 1 F, Martha Street Auditorium. Johnson City, TN 37614, USA. CEU: 3.5 Contact Hours. Epsilon-Sigma site: https://dc.etsu.edu/es-conf/2024/

Pi-Ming Yeh, Cheng-Huei Chiao, & Jennchang Liou. (2024). Comparisons of Using Alcohol, Coping Strategies, and Mental Health Between US and Taiwanese Students. Poster Presentation at Epsilon Sigma At-Large Chapter Research Day, April 11, 2024. Hosted by College of Nursing, East Tennessee State University. Location: D.P. Culp Student Center, 1 F, Martha Street Auditorium. Johnson City, TN 37614, USA. Epsilon-Sigma site: https://dc.etsu.edu/es-conf/2024/

Kathryn Usedom & Pi-Ming Yeh (2024). Maternal Morbidity in the Appalachian States: Rural Disparities and Social Determinants. Podium Presentation at Epsilon Sigma At-Large Chapter Research Day, April 11, 2024. Hosted by College of Nursing, East Tennessee State University. Location: D.P. Culp Student Center, 1 F, Martha Street Auditorium. Johnson City, TN 37614, USA. Epsilon-Sigma site: https://dc.etsu.edu/es-conf/2024/

Bigger, S. (2023, March 22 - 25). Black Americans Nearing End of Life in Home Health: Structural Vulnerability and Value-Based Purchasing. The Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care, held in Montreal, Canada, March 22 - 25, 2023. 

Cameron, N. (2023, May 1-3). Reflective Journaling: A tool for reflective practice. The 2nd World Virtual Summit on Nursing Education & Healthcare: Rising Nurses 2023 [Poster – presented verbally online]. 

Harnois-Church, P. A. (2023, November 15-17). Undergraduate Students’ Well-being at the End of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-section Study at a University in the Appalachian Area of the United States [RHA of TN 9th Annual Virtual Post Competition]. RHA of TN Annual Conference, Pigeon Forge, TN. 

Montgomery, K. (2023, May 6). Diagnosis Pre-eclampsia: Are Alzheimer's Disease and Chronic Hypertension Inevitable? Podium Presentation at the American College of Nurse Midwives Annual Meeting coming up in May 2023. May 6, 2023, from 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm. 

Mullins, C. (2023, July 28). Panel of Interprofessional Issues in Rural Communities on Friday, July 28, 2023, at the 2023 International Rural Nursing Conference. 

Sargsyan A. (2023) Animal-Assisted Green Care Farming for Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury. Epsilon Sigma STTI Annual Research Day, April 20, 2023

Sargsyan A. (2023) Animal-Assisted Green Care Farming. Creative Nursing Launch Event Hosted by Duke University School of Nursing, June 2, 2023, Durham, NC

Sargsyan A. (2023) Putting the Ducks in A Row: Development of A Duck Assisted Green Care Intervention for Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury. Graduate Colloquium, University of Tennessee College of Nursing, August 30, 2023, Knoxville, TN

Ousley, L., Gentry, R., & Short, C., (2023, September 23). Inspiring Innovation as Primary Care Providers and Educators. [Podium Presentation]. United Advanced Practice Registered Nurses of Georgia (UAPRN) Annual Conference: Jekyll Island, GA. 

Short, C., Ousley, L., & Gentry, R. (2023, March 20). Inspiring Innovation as Primary Care Providers and Educators. [Podium Presentation]. 26th Annual Louis A. Cancellaro Primary Care Conference: Johnson City, TN. 

Gentry, R., Ousley, L., & Short, C. (2023, January 23). Instructional Dermatology Surface Models. [Workshop] International Meeting for Simulation Healthcare Conference: Orlando, FL. January 20-25 

Todt, K. L. (2023, September 13). 2023. Impact of IDU-IE End-of-Life Care on Nurses: A Modified Photo Elicitation Study [Poster abstract]. The Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science (CANS). Advance Methods Conference Biosocial Methods to Advance Health Equity. Virtual. 
 
Todt, K. L. (2023, July 26-28). A Phenomenological Secondary Data Analysis: Caring for Appalachians with IDU-IE at End-of-Life [Poster Presentation]. Rural Nursing Organization. 2023 International Rural Nursing Conference. Johnson City, Tennessee.  
 
Todt, K. L. (2023, April). Pecha Kucha- an Art Arrayed Methodology to Disseminate Research. East Tennessee State University College of Nursing Grand Rounds. Virtual.  
 
Todt, K. L., Godfrey, N. (2023, February 13). The Language of Professional Identity in Nursing is Important. Appalachian Highlands Center for Nursing Advancement and Tennessee Center for Nursing Excellence. Best Practice Sharing Event. Virtual. 

Wei, H. (2023, June 12). Leading during difficult times: Leadership strategies to promote nurse psychological health and stress biomarker. [Podium]. Imagining, Innovating, and Transforming the National Nursing Workforce, Washington, DC.

Wei, H. (2023, April 28). Convergent Care Theory: Development and implications. Invited talk by International Association for Human Caring. Virtual. Conversation with a Theorist [Invited]

Wei, H. (2023, March 1). Editors’ panel: Writing success. Southern Nursing Research Society 37th Annual Conference, Building Partnerships in Population Health through Research, Education, and Practice, Orlando, FL. [Invited]

Nwokocha, T., Cowan, N. P., Mahajan, S., & Wei, H. (2023, February 10-12). Knowledge Gains from High-Fidelity Simulation (HFS) Use in Pre-licensure Nursing Education: Quasi-Experimental Study Design, Creating Healthy Work Environments, Austin, Texas

Wei, H. (2023, January 13). Nurses and leaders: Leading during challenging times. Appalachia Highlands Center for Nursing Advancement and Tennessee Center for Nursing Advancement Distinguished Leadership Lecture Series. Virtual, Inaugural Speaker.

Yeh, P. M. (2023, November 11-15). The Influences of Coping Strategies and Personality on US Nursing Students' Anxiety and Depression." The Sigma for oral presentation at the 47th Biennial Convention, November 11-15, 2023, in San Antonio, Texas.

Yeh, P. M. (2023, April 19-20). The Influences of Coping Strategies and Personality on US Nursing Students' Anxiety and Depression. The University of Iowa Health Care for oral presentation at the 30th National Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Conference on April 19-20, 2023, in Coralville, Iowa

Yeh, P. M. (2023, March 29 - April 1). Using Path Analysis to Examine the Psychological Well-Being Model for U.S. College Students, poster presentation for the 2023 MNRS Annual Research Conference to be held March 29 - April 1, 2023, Des Moines, IA.

Yeh, P. M., Chiao, C. H., & Gavin, W. (2023, March 1 - 3). Using Path Analysis to Examine the Psychological Well-being Model for U.S. College Students. Oral Presentation at the 37th SNRS Annual Conference, hosted by Southern Nursing Research Society (SNRS), March 1 - 3, 2023, at Rosen Center, Orlando, FL.

Bigger, S. (2022, November 2 - 6). COMFORT Communication in Home Health: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effectiveness. The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting taking place November 2 - 6, 2022, in Indianapolis, Indiana. 

Bigger, S. (2022, November 2-6). Two-Arm, Randomized Pilot Study titled "COMFORT Communication in Home Health: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effectiveness" at the GSA 2022 Conference held November 2-6, 2022, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Bigger, S. E., Glenn, L. L. (2022, February 22-26).  African Americans in home health: Advance care planning and acute care services use [Poster discussion presentation]. 36th Annual Southern Nursing Research Society Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Bigger, S., Clin-STAR Lecturer on the Advances in Aging Research. 

Cyphers, N, Whittaker, D, Hamilton, B. (2022, August 2-4). Healthcare & Faith Unite: Communicate, Collaborate. World Congress of Catholic Nurses. Doylestown, Pennsylvania. August 2-4, 2022.

Burleson, C., & Haddad, L. M. (2022). Improving Coordinated Mental Health Care Through an Enhanced Referral Process: A Quality Improvement Project (2022) [Poster Presentation]. Appalachian Student Research Forum & Jay S. Boland Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Hamilton, B & Hooper, V. (2022, September 15-17). Measuring Mutuality: An Integrated Review of Culturally Competent Approaches. 2022 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research. Washington DC. September 15-17, 2022.   

Hemphill, J. C., Weierbach, F., Hall, K. C., Berry-Price, H., & Barré, J. (2022, February 22-26).  Inequities in health resources and social structures revealed: The lived experience of protection during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic [Poster presentation]. 36th Annual Southern Nursing Research Society, New Orleans, LA.

Abercrombie CL, McCook, J., Johnson A, Williams A. (2022, January). Longitudinal SP Encounters to Address Health Determinants & Leadership Pillars. International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) Delivers. January 2022. Prerecorded Presentation. 

Mullins, C. & Carnevale, T. (2022). Implementation of an Evidence-Based Suicide Prevention Program for Primary Care Network of Clinics in Rural Appalachia. Podium presentation at the conference. 

Sargsyan A. (2022) Avian Based Green Care Therapy for People Living with Depression. Epsilon Sigma STTI Annual Research Day, April 14, 2022 

Short, C. Gentry, R., & Ousley, L. (2022, June 16). Show me some SKIN: Simulation Knowledge and Innovation in Nursing [Podium/Workshop]. INACSL Conference, Milwaukee, WI. June 16th, 2022.

Gentry, R., Short, C., & Ousley, L. (2022, March). Integrated Skin Exams: Opportunities to Detect Skin Cancer [Workshop Presentation]. 25th Annual Louis A. Cancellaro Primary Care Conference, Johnson City, TN. March 24th, 2022. 

Strickland, K. (2022, October 1). An Attempt to Thread Disability Health Throughout Nursing Curricula. The National League for Nursing's Education Summit in Las Vegas on October 1, 2022.

Todt K. (2022, October 8). The power of language to convey compassion, concern, and caring to counter stigma. The Tennessee Nurses Association 2022 Annual Conference Creating a Path Forward. October 8, 2022, Franklin, Tennessee.

Wei, H. (2022, December 17). Graduate students: Leading change in research, innovation, and leadership. International Graduate Students Symposium. China. Virtual, [Invited Keynote], 

Wei, H. (2022, November 30). Graduate students: Leading change in research, innovation, and leadership. International Graduate Students Symposium. China. Virtual, [Invited Keynote]. 

Wei, H. (2022, November 12). The prevalence of nurse burnout and its association with Telomere Length pre and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Perioperative Nursing 2nd Annual Research Symposium. Virtual, [Invited Speaker].

Wei, H., & Powers, M. (2022, November 12). The organizational culture’s role in promoting nursing certification. The Perioperative Nursing 2nd Annual Research Symposium. Virtual, [Invited Speaker].

Wei, H. (2022, November 4). Nurses’ burnout, post-traumatic stress, and stress biomarker telomere length during the pandemic: Implications for nurse leaders. [Podium]. Association of Leadership in Nursing Science, Cleveland, OH.

Wei, H. (2022, November 4). The ethic of belonging: Nurse leaders’ strategies to promote an inclusive work environment. Kentucky Nurses Association, invited. 

Wei, H., Powers, M., & Jones, J. (2022, October 28). The organizational culture in promoting nursing specialty certifications: An organizational policy perspective. [Poster]. American Academy of Nursing, Washington, DC, USA.

Wei, H. (2022, Sep 16). Organizational Strategies to Promote Nurse Professional Certifications During and Beyond the Pandemic: A Social and Structural Determinant of Health Perspective. Accepted to present at the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science (CANS)

Wei, H. (2022, July 25). Promoting nurses’ well-being during and post the Covid-19 pandemic: A global nursing perspective. [Podium]. Sigma Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Wei, H. (2022, July 20). Nurses’ burnout and stress biomarker Telomere Length during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Implications for doctoral education and practice. [Podium]. International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing (INDEN), Edinburgh, Scotland, Podium presentation. 

Wei, H. (2022, June 16). Career options for academic leaders: The value of mentorship and leadership development. Sigma Theta Tau International Leadership Academy. [Invited Speaker].

Wei, H. (2022, June 8). A culture of caring: The underpinning philosophy for nursing care. Qingdao Binzhou University Hospital Celebration, China. [Invited Keynote]

Wei, H. (2022, June 2). Applying inclusive caring beyond nurses’ stress, burnout, and stress biomarker. [Podium presentation]. International Association for Human Caring. Virtual.

Wei, H. (2022, May 27-28). Leading change in the future of nursing: Achieving excellence in research and leadership. International PhD and Post-Doctoral 2022 Annual Summit, China, Virtual, [Invited Keynote].

Wei, H. (2022, May 17-18). Leadership’s roles in promoting nurses’ mental health and well-being. National Teaching Institute (NTI), Houston, TX, [Invited Speaker]. 

Wei, H. (2022, March 25). Nurses’ healthy work environment, collaborative care, and stress biomarker telomere length. Sigma International, Creating Healthy Work Environments 2022, Washington, DC. [Invited Speaker].

Wei, H. (2022, February 7). Challenges, strategies, and implications for nurse leaders to alleviate nurses’ mental health issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. American Nurse, American Nurses Association [Invited Speaker].

Wright, M. E.  (2022, November 3-4). Hear My Story: Mothers with Addiction and Recovery Use of Kratom in the Perinatal Period. The 3rd International Indigenous Nursing Research 2022 Summit in Austin, Texas November 3-4, 2022.

Wright, M. E. (2022, September 15 - 17). Clinical Placements & Learning Experiences in the Appalachian NP ANEW Project. The 2022 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research, September 15 - 17, 2022, in Washington D.C.

Wright, M. E. (2022, November 3 - 5). Hear My Story: Mothers with Addiction and Recovery Use of Kratom in the Perinatal Period. The International Indigenous Nursing Research Summit, November 3 - 5, 2022, in Austin, Texas

Yeh, P. M. (October 18, 2022). The Influences of Spiritual Well-being and Parenting Styles on USA Nursing Students' Psychological Well-being and Suicidal Ideation. Oral Presentation at the 7th International Nursing Research Conference of World Academy of Nursing Science (7th WANS) under the theme Nurses Together for Global Challenges - Leading Nursing Science and Knowledge Generation Post. Oral presentation on October 18, 2022, and one poster presentation on October 19, 2022 

Yeh, P. M. (September 8, 2022). The Influences of Coping Strategies and Using Alcohol on the Psychological Well-Being and Suicidal Ideation among Elderly Adults. The New Faculty 3-Minute Mixer on September 8, 2022, held in the East Tennessee Room at the Culp Student Center

Pi-Ming Yeh (2022). The Journey from Drug Addiction to Drug Withdrawal. Poster Presentation at the 7th International Nursing Research Conference of World Academy of Nursing Science (7th WANS) under the theme Nurses Together for Global Challenges - Leading Nursing Science and Knowledge Generation Post Global Pandemic on October 18-19, 2022 in Taipei, Taiwan. Hosted by Taiwan Nurses Association (TWNA) and Asia American / Pacific Islander Nurses Association (AAPINA).