April 21, 2010

BCU Professor Presents at National and Midwest Conferences

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Victoria L. S. Britson, Ph.D., ARNP-BC, CNE, associate professor of nursing at Briar Cliff, recently presented her doctoral research at the Midwest Nursing Research Society Annual Research Conference in Kansas City, Mo., and at the 21st Annual Nursing Research Symposium in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Dr Britson’s research, titled “The Lived Experience of Taking a Risk for Persons Who Have Experienced Natural Disaster,” examines the meaning taking a risk as an experience that is important to health and quality of life, which she researched over one year as a culmination of her doctoral program.

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