DNP program student awarded grant from American Association of Nurse Practitioners for DNP Synthesis Project implementation

DNP student, Lara Hernandez, and faculty members Dr. Christy Lenahan, Dr. Jeanne Cartier, and Dr. Roger Rholden, SLEMCO/BORSF Endowed Professor in Nursing were awarded a $5,000 grant from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. The grant, Home is Where the Heart  Is: Remote Patient Monitoring to Improve Outcomes in Heart Failure in Patients with Reduced Ejection Fraction, will allow Ms. Hernandez to pilot the implementation of Pulsario, a computer-assisted medication titration platform, developed by a local cardiologist, with a group of heart failure patients at a hospital in New Orleans.