Scottsbluff resident T. Kim Callahan Rodehorst, Ph.D., was one of three health providers who recently received awards from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology during a conference in San Francisco. Dr. Rodehorst is an assistant professor of nursing at UNMC’s College of Nursing West Nebraska Division in Scottsbluff.
She received an Education Research Trust Travel Grant Award for the high score she received on a research abstract she presented. The research, titled, “Interdisciplinary Education: Perceptions of the Usefulness of a Clinical Simulation to Promote Learning About Asthmatic Children,” evaluated a compact disk production about children with asthma.
The CD, which helps students in the health professions learn about caring for a child with asthma using an interdisciplinary approach, features family practice residents at Horizons West Medical Center in Scottsbluff, as well as UNMC pharmacy students, respiratory therapists, nurses and nurse practitioners. Health professionals from the University of Wyoming and Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff helped evaluate content of the CD.
Dr. Rodehorst’s colleagues, Susan L. Wilhelm, Ph.D., and Linda Jensen, Ph.D., assisted with the CD project. Dr. Rodehorst continues her research in asthma among children and will present more of her research findings in Dublin, Ireland, this summer.