Accomplishments of Assistant Professor Ann Gibbons Phalen of Jefferson's School of Nursing

PHILADELPHIA, PA (02/15/2011)(readMedia)-- Ann Gibbons Phalen, Wrightstown, PA resident and PhD, APRN, NNP-BC, Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson School of Nursing, explores SIDS, presents about nursing education and serves as a reviewer.

Dr. Phalen co-authored "Implementation of the American Academy of Pediatrics Recommendations to Reduce Sudden Infant Death Syndrome risk in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: An Evaluation of Nursing Knowledge and Practice" with Regina Grazel and Rosemary Polomano. The article was published in Advances in Neonatal Care, December 2010 (6), 332-342, and it examines and describes NICU nurses' knowledge of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) risk-reduction measures, modeling of safe infant sleep interventions prior to discharge and inclusion of SIDS risk reduction in parent education.

She also gave the presentation "Integrating Evidence-Based Practice and Nursing Research into Clinical Teaching" as part of the 5th Annual Nursing Research Conference held in the John Ammon Education Center at Christiana Care Health System in Newark, Delaware on November 5, 2010. She highlighted evidence-based nursing practice, the benefits of evidence-based practice (EBP) for patients, students and nursing profession and discussed some of the barriers to integrating EBP and research in clinical teaching and offered strategies to overcome these barriers.

Dr. Phalen also served on the poster review and awards committee for the Delaware Health Sciences Alliance (DHSA), Womens/Children's Health Research Conference at the University of Delaware's Clayton Hall on December 10, 2010. There were more than 300 attendees and 60 poster presentations at the conference.