Journal of Emergency Nursing Editor-in-Chief

The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) has contracted with Castner Incorporated for Jessica Castner’s editor-in-chief services at the Journal of Emergency Nursing (JEN), beginning in April of 2019. 2020 is the 50th anniversary year for the ENA and a very exciting time to edit the journal for the association’s nearly 50,000 members. One of ENA’s co-founders, Anita Dorr, worked and resided Erie County, New York-- the same county where Castner Incorporated is located today. Here are excerpts from the press release:

“The emergency nursing specialty encompasses a vast array of patient and public health problems. Likewise, the scope, scale and depth of topics published in JEN will continue to be similarly expansive to reflect the wide-ranging nature and intensity of the specialty,” Castner said. “JEN is the go-to resource for cutting-edge information for research and scholarship that forms the foundation of emergency nursing knowledge.

“I am thrilled to serve as editor-in-chief of the emergency nursing specialty’s premier scholarly journal. I consider it a prestigious honor,” Castner added.

ENA Immediate Past President Jeff Solheim, MSN, RN, CEN, TCRN, CFRN, FAEN, FAAN, headed the search committee…. “We look forward to seeing our JEN, which is already the premier journal for emergency nursing, take on a new look and become accessible in different platforms under Jessica’s direction.”

“We are appreciative of the all who have helped JEN achieve an excellent reputation as the peer-reviewed journal for emergency nurses,” said ENA [immediate past] President Patricia Kunz Howard, PhD, RN, CEN, CPEN, TCRN, NE-BC, FAEN, FAAN. “Dr. Castner’s experience as an associate JEN editor, her global knowledge of publishing, combined with her vision for the Journal, position her well to help advance JEN even further.”

JEN’s website is at jenonline.org and can be followed on Twitter @JEmergNurs

Read about how the “Translational Research Framework gains a Following” in the Environmental Factor from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. We’ve published the work described in this story in Nursing Outlook.

Study Finds Racial Disparities in Asthma Triggers at the Homes of Older Adults with Asthma

When a health or home inspector assesses a residential home, they are usually gathering information on over a hundred rows of information on their checklist. This is too much detailed information to be useful for a nurse or physician to use when teaching a patient with asthma about reducing asthma triggers at home. In our study of older adults with asthma in Louisville, KY, we were able to narrow the information down to seven key components that can be automated into a single score. We found that this score, on average, was much higher for those who told us they had any Black or African American racial identity. While we weren’t surprised by the finding, given that Louisville had unfair housing and redlining policies in the last century, the findings help inform our continued work for better health equality. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging. The research team includes collaborations with researchers from the University of Louisville, Case Western Reserve University, and University of Kansas Medical Center. The study will be published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health.

Castner, J. Barnett, R., Huntington-Moskos, L., Folz, R.J., & Polivka B. (2020). Home environment allergen exposure scale in older adult cohort with asthma. Canadian Journal of Public Health. DOI: 10.17269/s41997-020-00335-0

Can the Sleep Patterns from a Fitness Tracker help with Asthma Control in the Future? New Study Suggests this is a Promising Idea.

We asked women with poorly controlled asthma to wear a Fitbit so we could test if it could predict their asthma control.

It did!

This was an initial study that still needs to be repeated with more people. This is still an exciting step to inventing the next generation of health care without walls, or telehealth. Imagine when your nurse can start to assess your health by using the information you upload from your fitness tracker. The study was funded, in part, by the Rockefeller University’s Heilbrunn Family Center for Research Nursing and will be published in the journal Heart & Lung.

Castner, J., Jungquist, C.R., Mammen, M.J., Pender, J.J., Licata, O., Sethi, S. (2020). Prediction model development of women's daily asthma control using fitness tracker sleep disruption. Heart Lung. [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2020.01.013

When Grand Island Public High School closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Martin Castner challenged himself to learn computer programming code using Python software. Using his homeschool assignment time to generate data visualizations, he’s joined the Castner Incorporated research team to submit conference abstracts and manuscripts for peer reviewed scientific journals. His career goal is to become an industry leader in professional hockey sports analytics and sports team player business management.

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