Where are they now?
Dr. Banka and Dr. Colombo |
by Dr. Carole Banka
Carmen Colombo was the 2013
recipient of the Howell Foundation’s Cheryl A. Wilson Nursing Scholarship. She
is a 2014 graduate of the University of San Diego’s Hahn School of Nursing and
Health Science with a Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing degree. Carmen is the Chief Nursing Officer of Sharp
Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns.
The Howell Foundation Scholarship
provided funding for her research dissertation, “Fetal Heart Monitoring,
Nursing Surveillance, and Cesarean Birth”. Dr. Colombo designed this study to
determine the role nurses’ monitoring and interpretation of fetal heart rate
during labor predicted a Cesarean section outcome. The importance of this study
rests on the fact that in 2012, the most recent statistics available, one in
three births in the US were by Cesarean section. Dr. Colombo will briefly
discuss her findings supported by the Howell Foundation at the August luncheon.
The Cheryl Wilson Nursing Scholarship for 2015 will also be awarded at the
luncheon.
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