Ladson, SC 29456
The Nursing Research Councils of Roper St. Francis and the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) invite you to join us for our eighth annual joint nursing research conference in conjunction with the Gamma Omicron at-Large Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International. The conference will focus on bridging the gap between the clinical practices and nursing research while building relationships among community partners in nursing excellence.
KEYNOTE SESSION SPEAKER: Sarah Johnson, PhD, RN
Dr. Sarah Johnson has been a nurse for 32 years and has been employed at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Health – Charleston since 1998. Her direct care experience includes emergency nursing, post-anesthesia nursing, cardiothoracic ICU, nurse case management and psychiatric medical
surgical nursing.
She holds undergraduate degrees from Augusta University and the Medical College of Georgia and completed a Master of Science in Nursing degree at Medical University of South Carolina, College of Nursing. In 2008 she became the first MUSC Health - Charleston direct care/bedside nurse to achieve the rank of PhD in nursing and was among the first cohort of three African American nurses to achieve a doctoral degree from MUSC. Her dissertation “Healing in Silence: Black Nurses in South Carolina 1896 to 1948” documented the formal history of the original African American Nurses in Charleston, South Carolina. Her proposal received an award from the American Association for the History of Nursing and was subsequently funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. A bound copy of her dissertation is housed for posterity at the Rockefeller Archive Center in New York (Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York).
The Nursing Research Councils of Roper St. Francis and the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) invite you to join us for our eighth annual joint nursing research conference in conjunction with the Gamma Omicron at-Large Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International. The conference will focus on bridging the gap between the clinical practices and nursing research while building relationships among community partners in nursing excellence.
KEYNOTE SESSION SPEAKER: Sarah Johnson, PhD, RN
Dr. Sarah Johnson has been a nurse for 32 years and has been employed at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Health – Charleston since 1998. Her direct care experience includes emergency nursing, post-anesthesia nursing, cardiothoracic ICU, nurse case management and psychiatric medical
surgical nursing.
She holds undergraduate degrees from Augusta University and the Medical College of Georgia and completed a Master of Science in Nursing degree at Medical University of South Carolina, College of Nursing. In 2008 she became the first MUSC Health - Charleston direct care/bedside nurse to achieve the rank of PhD in nursing and was among the first cohort of three African American nurses to achieve a doctoral degree from MUSC. Her dissertation “Healing in Silence: Black Nurses in South Carolina 1896 to 1948” documented the formal history of the original African American Nurses in Charleston, South Carolina. Her proposal received an award from the American Association for the History of Nursing and was subsequently funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. A bound copy of her dissertation is housed for posterity at the Rockefeller Archive Center in New York (Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York).