Nursing Professor Receives National Award for Research on Tube Feedings

As a medical-surgical nurse and professor of a skills course, I found this article about Dr. Metheny to be so important. "Norma A. Metheny, Ph.D., professor of nursing at Saint Louis University's Doisy College of Health Sciences, has received a national writing award for her research on tube feedings.

MEDSURG Nursing: The Journal of Adult Health recognized Metheny, the Dorothy A. Votsmier Endowed Chair in Nursing at SLU, as the 2005 MEDSURG Nursing Research for Practice Award winner for her journal article, �Verification of Inefficacy of the Glucose Method in Detecting Aspiration Associated with Tube Feedings,� published in that journal in April 2005.

I commend her on her research findings and the writing award for her research findings is so well deserved. Many lives are saved each year because nurses are turning to evidenced base practice for their interventions.