Diane L. Carroll, RN, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital: Improving health outcomes in older ICD [what’s this?] recipients

Catherine Cole, DNSc, RN, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, College of Nursing: Effect of sleep fragmentation on attention in dementia

Rebecca Crane-Okada, BSN, MN, PhD, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Saint John’s Health Center: Effects of varied schedules of telephone support provided by senior peer counselors to women age 60 and older who are newly diagnosed with breast cancer on perceived social support, QOL, and utilization of resources

Norma G. Cuellar, BSN, MN, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing: Functional status and health outcomes in older adults with restless legs syndrome

Yvonne D. Eaves, BS, MS, PhD, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Nursing: Culturally specific and appropriate family-centered interventions for rural caregiving African-American families responsible for the long term care of older adult relatives

Carol D. Epstein, PhD, RN, Fairfield University, School of Nursing: A trial of immunonutrition in ventilated older adults

Jan Coleman Gross, RN, PhD, ARNP-S, Cardinal Hill Hospital: Effect of a free water protocol on stroke patients with dysphagia

Ezra C. Holston, PhD, RN, University of Iowa: Relationship between abnormal physiological features, genotyping, deterioration in cognition, daily functioning, and global presentation from onset to progression of Alzheimer’s Disease

Jie Hu, PhD, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, School of Nursing: Intervention project for African-American older adults with chronic illness

Teresa J. Kelechi, PhD, MSN, BSN, Medical University of South Carolina, College of Nursing: Skin temperature, infrared thermometry, chronic venous insufficiency

Maria Matarese, Università Campus Bio Medico, School of Nursing: A comparison of advanced practice geriatric nursing in Italy and the United States

Kristen L. Mauk, PhD, MS, BSN, Valparaiso University: Development of a model for post-stroke rehabilitation

Abraham Ndiwane, BA, BSN, MSN, EdD, RN, University of Massachusetts: Intervention to Assess the Process of Cultural Competency (IAPCC) to evaluate cultural competency of CNAs with older adults

Mary Lynn Piven, RN, PhD, Duke University, School of Nursing: Does intervention training to improve staff recognition of depression in long term care

Sherry L. Pomeroy, PhD, MS, RN, University of Buffalo, School of Nursing: Physical activity interventions with rural urban older adults

Barbara Roberge, PhD, RN, Massachusetts General Hospital: The role of fatigue and its relationship to quality of life in elders with heart failure

Juliette Shellman, RN, CS, PhD, University of Connecticut, School of Nursing: Effects of integrative reminiscence program on depression and life satisfaction on African-American elders

Laura Bond Sutton, PhD, RN, University of Florida, College of Nursing: Effects of sources of support for women with breast cancer on adherence to exercise and outcome variables