Funded projects (2019-Present)

  1. Renee George (VCU Ph.D. student), Brenda Wands. A Combined Instructor-Led and Student Self-Led Debriefing Method to Enhance Non-Technical Skills in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists: An Educational Intervention Pilot Study. Funded by Sigma Theta Tau International Gamma Omega at-Large Chapter Nursing Science and Practice Grant. 2022-2023
  2. Renee George (VCU Ph.D. student), Brenda Wands, Jiale Hu. A Combined Instructor-Led and Student Self-Led Debriefing Method to Enhance Non-Technical Skills in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists: An Educational Intervention Pilot Study. Funded by VCU Dissertation Research Funding: Ph.D. in Health Sciences. 2022-2023
  3. Chloe Sy (VCU undergraduate student), Jiale Hu (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Mentor). Evaluation of Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program: Findings from the Participant Feedback Survey. Funded by Undergraduate Fellowship for You First at VCU: First-Generation Emerging Scholars. 2022-2023
  4. Laurie Wacks (VCU undergraduate student), Jiale Hu (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Mentor). Moving to holistic admission in a nurse anesthesia program: a mixed methods research project. Funded by Undergraduate Fellowship for You First at VCU: First-Generation Emerging Scholars. 2022-2023
  5. Hu J (Principal Investigator). Contextual factors influencing implementation of interprofessional collaborative family-centered care (IPC FCC) for neonates during intensive care: A mixed methods study. Funded by ASAHP Interprofessional Collaboration Research Grant. 2021-2022
  6. VCU Department of Nurse Anesthesia. Nurse anesthesia traineeship grant. Health Resources and Services Administration/Department of Health and Human Services. 2020-2022
  7. Barnwell LH (Principal Investigator). Perioperative Brain Health: A Quantitative Evaluation of a Novel Electroencephalogram Headset for Assessing and Tracking Neurocognition in Older Surgical Patients. American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) Foundation Fellowship Award. 2020-2021.
  8. Hu J (Principal Investigator). Creating an Open Education Resource regarding Crisis Resource Management for Nurse Anesthesia Students and Medical Students. The Virtual Library of Virginia Open Education Grant. 2021-2023.
  9. Hu J (Principal Investigator). A mixed methods study to investigate nurse anesthetists’ and anesthesiologists’ implementation of crisis resource management. The Fuld Institute for EBP research grant. 2021-2023
  10. Hu J (Principal Investigator). Contextual factors influencing implementation of interprofessional collaborative family-centered care (IPC FCC) for neonates during intensive care: A mixed methods study. Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions Interprofessional Collaboration Research Grant. 2020-2024
  11. Hu J (Principal Investigator). Development and preliminary evaluation of the Virginia intervention on developing crisis resource management skills for nurse anesthetists (VIC-NA). Virginia Commonwealth University College of Health Professions seed grant. 2021-2023.
  12. Hu J (co- Principal Investigator) with Wright S (Principal Investigator). The implementation of anesthesia crisis resource management principles in clinical practice: A mixed methods study. American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) Foundation Research Grant. 2021-2023.
  13. Wands B (PhD Committee Co-Chair) & Hu J (PhD Committee Co-Chair) with George R (PhD student). A structured, non-technical skills debriefing in simulation-based training with student registered nurse anesthetists: A pilot randomized controlled trial with process evaluation. 2021-2022
  14. Hu J (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Mentor) with Taylor K (Undergraduate student). Facilitators and barriers to using procedural pain treatments for neonates during intensive care. VCU Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Summer Fellowship. 2021-2022.
  15. Hu J (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Mentor) with Doan S (Undergraduate student). The implementation of crisis resource management principles in anesthesia settings: A concurrent mixed methods study. VCU Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Summer Fellowship. 2021-2022.
  16. Hu J (Co-Investigator) with Harrison D (Principal Investigator). A cluster randomized controlled trial in Ontario hospitals providing maternal/newborn care to determine effectiveness of a parent-targeted educational video for improving newborn pain treatment. Ontario Child Health SUPPORT Unit (OCHSU) - IMPACT Child Health Award. 2019-2022