http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles Fri, 12 May 2006 15:29:54 GMT Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activity http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/25 In her twelve years as a nursing home director, Professor Marilyn Rantz says that she has never once met an individual who wanted to be in the facility. Most view the idea of entering a nursing home as a dreadful specter that they would be happy to avoid. As a professor in the Sinclair School of Nursing, Rantz has developed a collaborative project designed to change that attitude from dread into anticipation and even excitement. Fri, 12 May 2006 15:29:54 GMT http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/25 (LuAnne Roth) http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/109 Citing an analogy used by those in public health fields, Tina Bloom explains that health providers wait on the banks of the river to rescue people who have fallen in and are drowning. But Bloom wants to help more and help earlier. “At some point, you start to think about what’s happening upriver,” she says. As an assistant professor in the Sinclair School of Nursing, her research focuses on safety planning for women in abusive relationships; specifically, she is designing and testing a website that might help women find ways to lessen their danger. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/109 (Jessica Huang)