The officers and Board plan programs throughout the year and invite nurses from a variety of nursing areas to describe what they do. A newsletter is published regularly describing the activities and helping ever yone to be informed. The purpose of the Honors Program is to encourage and support the beginning development of scholarship in undergraduate students. Students may apply at all levels of their program, but the successful applicants have at least three terms of full-time study.
Honor students conduct a research study while working closely with their faculty advisor.
This experience provides them with an opportunity to critically examine a phenomenon of interest to them. The research study affords them a successful research experience. This experience enhances their nursing practice, and lays the foundation for future graduate studies. The honors students usually disseminate their findings through such mechanisms as professional presentations and manuscript publication. Examples of studies by honors scholars in the class of 1996 include early nutrition support for people with HIV and pain management beliefs of Dominican Republic health care providers.