PhD nursing student Carrie Rewakowski presents at national public health nursing conference

Carrie Rewakowski, PhD student and Decker Fellow at Binghamton University’s Decker School of Nursing, presented a poster at the Association of Public Health Nurses 2019 conference held in April in Atlanta alongside co-author Maria MacPherson, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation public health nurse leader and Rewakowski’s preceptor during her community health clinical experience.

The poster, Community Engagement: Work/Life Satisfaction, Healthy Lifestyles and Balance, showed the results of a 2017 survey conducted at the Great New York State Fair that showed nurses were significantly more likely to express a sense of accomplishment and value related to work and life contributions than non-nurses. In addition, nurses were significantly more likely than non-nurses to participate in community engagement for health-related issues.

A third author of the poster, Penelope Pooler from Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management, did not attend the conference.