 Continuing on our journey at the research symposium with another wonderful nursing major, Ms. Emma, so tell us a little bit about your project. So my project is about the NIH Stroke Scale, which is the National Institute of Health Scale that is used for stroke patients at primary stroke centers. So in the Emergency Department at Bridgeport Hospital, they're required to perform this scale on all their stroke patients, but it can be pretty difficult to score and very counterintuitive for certain providers. So I developed a tool that would talk about tips and tricks and some of the rules that nurses should use to score this scale so that they can get the most accurate and consistent results. Wonderful, that's really impressive. Tell me a little bit about what inspired you to dive into this research if there was one specific instance or maybe an influence of faculty member. So when I was in the ED, I was speaking with the nurses there and asking them kind of what they've been struggling with and it was it's towards you know the end of the pandemic and for the last two years they've had to use this stroke scale a lot more often in the emergency room because the patients who would normally be in the ICU who require the scale very frequently were staying in the Emergency Department because there were no ICU beds. So the emergency department nurses weren't necessarily trained to use the scale properly and didn't go through the certification that ideally a clinician should have before they use the scale on patients. So I thought it would be really helpful to give them a tool that would help them to make sure they're scoring it properly and getting consistent results. Really interesting and really important. So diving into your takeaways, can you give us a top few takeaways from the research that you conducted here? Yeah, I think a big takeaway is just knowing the tools and the assessments that you're doing and how they're supposed to be scored for any assessment because it's really important that these standardized tools are kept consistent throughout and that each patient is scored in the same way so that you can make sure that your outcomes are going to align the best with how the scale supposed to be used. Sure. Let's talk about faculty involvement in your project. Did you work closely with any specific professor to conduct this research? For this research was part of my capstone project for the nursing school. So my professor for the class for transition was Dr. Renz who I've had about four classes with. So we have a pretty close relationship and my instructor for overseeing Bridgeport Hospital, Genevieve DeFonte, she helped me develop this topic and really hone in on the research. So it's very helpful. Let's talk about the research symposium now. We're here today. You're able to show off all your hard work. How has it been presenting to classmates in the Fairfield community? It's been really cool. I think this is a really interesting event because you get to see what people's interests are and the culmination of everyone's time here at Fairfield and especially the seniors. We've worked so hard these last four years and it's great to see everyone come together and just celebrate all the things that we've learned so far. Absolutely. Last but not least, what's next for the research, the project, and most importantly you? So this project, I don't believe that I'm going to be working in an emergency department but I do think that I can take a lot of the things that I've learned and bring it to my future research because I do think I want to work in some sort of research capacity in nursing. So I think that's my next steps. I'm not 100% sure yet, but I hope to be in maybe the Boston area and do a little bit more research in the future. Well, your hard work has certainly paid off. Congratulations and thanks so much for sharing with us. Thank you.