Ahern, Nancy, PhD, RN Associate Professor |
- Adolescent risk and resilience
- Risky behaviors of youth and adolescents
- Applied learning in pedagogies
- Use of art in the classroom
- Online learning
- Perinatal loss and grief
- Maternal-fetal attachment
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- Youth, adolescents, and families
- Mothers and babies
- College students
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- Quantitative
- Qualitative (Flanagan Critical Incident technique)
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Alzaghari, Omar, PhD, MSN, RN Assistant Professor |
- Management of chronic health conditions
- Heart failure readmissions
- Nursing management
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- Critical care nursing
- Adult health nursing
- Nursing education
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- Older adults
- Nurses
- Nursing administrators
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Anderson, Jane, DNP, RN, G-CNS-BC, CNE Lecturer |
- Undergraduate nursing education
- Teaching
- Learning
- Gerontology
- Applied learning strategies
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- Healthy aging simulation in nursing education
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- Older adults
- Students
- Faculty
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Arms, Tammy, DNP, PMHNP-BC, NP-C Associate Professor |
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- Adult/geriatrics
- Family past medical history
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- Quantitative Mixed Methods
- Critical Incident
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Baisden, Paula, DNP, MSN, PMHRN-BC Lecturer |
- Intrinsic motivation
- Organizational psychology
- Pre-licensure BSN education
- Psychology of human nutrition
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- Incivility Organizational culture/retention/
recruitment
- Alternative teaching/testing methods
- Addiction treatment
- Obesity treatment
- Eating disorder treatment
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- Qualitative
- Quantitative Mixed
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Bice, April, PhD, CPNP, RN Assistant Professor |
- Pediatric advanced practice nursing
- Pediatric procedural pain management
- Pediatric holistic comfort
- Qualitative research methods
- Applied learning of writing for publication
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- Neonates
- Infants
- Children
- Adolescents
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- Qualitative methods
- Qualitative descriptive
- Content analysis
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Bove, Lisa Anne, DNP, RN-BC Assistant Professor |
- Informatics
- Real time documentation
- Quantified self
- Implementing systems (EHRs)
- Project management
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- Project management
- Leadership
- Clinical improvement through the use of data
- EHRs
- Nursing
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- Health care
- Higher Education
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Chen, Yea-Jyh, PhD, RN, MSN Associate Professor |
- Complementary alternative therapy
- Brain health
- Developing an online teaching effectiveness instrument for distance higher education
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- Self-care in rural communities
- Cost-effective home-based interventions for patients and family caregivers in a holistic approach
- Clinical outcomes: quality of life, symptom management
- Outcomes of online teaching and student learning
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- Community old adults with chronic conditions
- Cancer patients
- Family caregivers
- Faculty and students in higher education
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- Quantitative and mixed methods
- Instrument development and psychometrics testing
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Choi, Jeeyae, PhD, RN Associate Professor |
- Developing Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS)
- Developing mobile apps for cancer patients
- Developing nursing information management systems
- Knowledge management and representation
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- Developing Clinical Decision Support Systems based on computer-interpretable nursing guidelines translated from paper-based nursing guidelines
- Developing a pain management mobile application for cancer patients on Android-based phones
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- Cancer patients
- Opioid users
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Coward-Murrell, Clydie, MSN, BSN, RN Lecturer |
- Perceived challenges of nursing students in the clinical settings and post recovery
- Traumatic experience in mental health patients
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- Maternal health
- Labor and delivery
- Mental Health Nursing
- Emergency Nursing
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Culp-Roche, Amanda, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC Assistant Professor |
- Rural health disparities, specifically lack of addiction medicine/treatment for rural residents
- Improving teaching experiences of nursing faculty in online environments
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- Addiction medicine/treatment in rural primary healthcare settings
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- Rural residents/communities
- Not for profit organizations
- Community-led coalitions
- Medical/healthcare organizations
- Government organizations
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- Online surveys (REDcap)
- Qualitative methods - primarily focus groups and individual interviews
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Cunningham, Robin, MSN, RN, LNCC, CNE, CHSE Coordinator, Simulation Learning Center |
- Simulation impact on patient outcomes
- Mindfulness in simulation
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Diggle-Fox, B Suzy, PhD, GNP, ANP, BC Assistant Professor |
- Geriatrics
- Infection control and/or diseases
- Addictions
- HIV
- Occupational health
- Anxiety
- Community care
- Global health care issues Parkinson's Disease
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- HIV Substance abuse
- School of Nursing
- Med-surg Nursing
- Homeless domiciliary
- Occupational health and oncology
- Geriatrics
- Infectious diseases
- Mental Health (anxiety & stress)
- Suicide
- Parkinson's Disease
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Dodson, Crystal, PhD, RN, MSN, BC-ADM, CDE Assistant Professor
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- Precision medicine
- Pharmacogenomics
- Genomics
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- Continuing education
- Oncology
- Diabetes
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- Healthcare providers-all population
- Nursing students
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EL Hajj, Dana, PhD, RN Assistant Professor
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- Smoking cessation
- Alternative tobacco products
- Acculturation
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- Tobacco products cessation interventions
- Virtual Reality
- Motivational Interviewing
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- Tobacco users
- Arab immigrants
- Veterans
- Not-for profit organizations
- Community-led coalitions
- Corporate/for profit organizations
- Medical/healthcare organizations
- School settings
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- Quantitative and Qualitative Research Designs
- Survey Method
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Estrem, Hayley, PhD Assistant Professor |
- Pediatric feeding disorder: How does it develop? How can we measure symptoms systematically through a child's development? How do we know it is helping when families are home? What is most important to measure? How can we best facilitate optimized feeding for child- and family-centered care?
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- Holistic measurement for children in feeding treatment, and their families
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- Families of children with chronic complex conditions, developmental disabilities, and/or feeding problems
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- Qualitative and integrative methods
- Factor analysis and item response theory
- Symptom network analysis
- Physiologic measurement (HRV, RSA)
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Ferrell, Anastasiya (Ana), PhD, RN, TTS Assistant Professor
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- Regulation of novel tobacco products
- Tobacco-related trends among youth and young adults
- Tobacco prevention and cessation among vulnerable populations and minorities
- Health effects of novel tobacco products
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- Public Health
- Tobacco use cessation
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- Vulnerable populations and minorities
- Youth
- Young adults
- Campus community
- Policy and lawmakers
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Gallek, Matthew, PhD, RN, CNRN Associate Director for Academic Programs & Associate Professor |
- Neurological injuries/diseases
- The influence of genetics/genomics on outcomes
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- Functional outcomes following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemmorrhage and ischemic stroke
- Influence of gene expression on surgical outcomes following temporal lobe resection for epilepsy
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Gazza, Elizabeth (Beth), PhD, RN, LCCE, FAACE Associate Director for Faculty and Staff Development & Professor |
- Nursing faculty development
- Leadership
- Scholarly writer development
- Online education
- Healthful work environments Mentoring
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- Online education
- Women's Health
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- Nursing faculty
- Online educators
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- Qualitative
- Hermeneutic Phenomenology
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Gell, Susan, DNP, RN Lecturer |
- Psych mental health
- Suicide risk and nursing interventions
- Patient acuity tool
- Mass shooting and gaming vs reality
- PTSD and therapy dogs
- Nursing leadership and perceived stress
- Nursing student perceived stress and use of social media
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- Suicide risk assessment with logarithm interventions
- Patient acuity/unit acuity tool
- Use of social media as a form of social support
- Intervention identification for coping mechanisms for nurse leaders
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- Teen
- Adult
- Veterans/military
- Psych
- Nurse leaders
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- I am a novice and would like to collaborate with a more experienced researcher
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Haddad, Linda, PhD, RN, FAAN Director & Irwin Belk Distinguished Professor |
- Smoking cessation among minority groups
- Prevention of new tobacco product smoking
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- Faculty empowerment and peer support
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Highsmith, Carol, MPS, RN Lecturer |
- Service learning with undergraduate nursing students
- Reducing health disparities in vulnerable populations
- Underrepresented populations in Allied Health Programs in higher education
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- Reducing health disparities in vulnerable populations
- Health aging in Geriatric populations
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- Impacts of mentorship in student learning in higher education
- Under-represented populations
- Vulnerable populations
- Geriatric populations
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- Quality Improvement
- Service Learning
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Hinkle, Julie, PhD, RN, CNE Assistant Professor |
- Adaptive/personalized learning
- Personalized interventions
- Innovative technology
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- Adaptive/personalized learning
- Personalized interventions
- Innovative technology
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- Quantitative
- Mixed Methods
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Hrelic, Debra, PhD, RNC RN-BSN Program Coordinator & Assistant Professor |
- Academic success in nursing
- RN-BS success
- BS Nursing students
- Communication/families/
students
- Student anxiety/therapy animals/emotional support animals (ESA)
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- Maternal child nursing
- Interview
- Communication
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- Adolescents
- Child-bearing families
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- Quantitative
- Phenomenological
- Qualitative
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Isibel, Denise, DNP, RN, CNE Assistant Professor |
- Health literacy
- Chronic disease management
- Aging populations
- Quality improvement
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- Outpatient
- Community Health
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- Health literate organizations and communities
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- Translational Mixed Methods
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Jeffries, Amanda, MSN, RN Lecturer |
- Preventing critical care admissions in chronically ill
- Best practices in online learning
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- Critical care nursing
- Experiential learning
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- Underserved and critically ill
- Online students
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Jones, Carolyn, PhD, RN, NNP-BC Assistant Professor |
- Family-centered care
- Stress and coping of families in NICU
- Provision of mother's own milk in the NICU
- Teamwork in the NICU
- Use of simulation to improve patient outcomes
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- Access to care for individuals with disabilities and chronic illness
- Care coordination through healthcare transitions
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- Children with chronic illness and their families
- Individuals with disabilities
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- Qualitative
- Mixed Methods
- Instrument Development
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Jones, Lindsey Paige, MSN-Ed, RN Lecturer |
- Maternal/newborn outcomes
- Physical activity/wellness
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- Women's and children's health
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- High risk antepartum and postpartum
- Newborns
- Community
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Kim-Godwin, Yeoun Soo, PhD, MPH, CNE, RN Professor |
- Health promoting self-care intervention
- Spirituality and spiritual care
- Mental health
- Substance abuse
- Online education
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- Minority and vulnerable populations
- Not-for profit organizations
- Community-led organizations
- School settings
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- Quantitative
- Mixed methods
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Kleman, Carolyn, PhD, MHA, BSN, RN Assistant Professor |
- Patient work in chronic illness
- Patient advocacy
- Health policy
- Global health
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- Cardiovascular Chronic Illness
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- Adults with a chronic illness(es)
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- Mixed Methods
- Descriptive survey
- Qualitative
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Laham, Kelly, DNP, RN, ANP-BC, CNE DNP Program Coordinator & Assistant Professor |
- Rural health
- Mental health
- NP role/practice
- Nursing student satisfaction with applied learning
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- Rural health
- Primary care
- Cardiology
- Health promotion
- Nursing student satisfaction
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- Rural
- Adults
- Advanced Practice Nursing students
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- Survey
- Qualitative
- Mixed Methods
- QI
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Lane, Lawone, MSN, RN, CNE Lecturer |
- Chronic illness
- Nursing education
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- Nursing education
- Clinical education
- Adult health/gerontology
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- Nursing students
- Vulnerable populations
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Link, Tamara , DNP, FNP-BC Assistant Professor |
- Antibiotic Stewardship in outpatient settings
- Military Populations
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- Outpatient Urgent Care
- Primary Care
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- NPs
- PA
- Physicians in outpatient settings
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Lutz, Barbara, PhD, RN, CRRN, PHNA-BC, FAHA, FNAP, FAAN McNeill Distinguished Professor |
- Community-based models of care for adults with chronic/disabling illnesses
- Family caregiving
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- Gerontology
- Public Health
- Rehab nursing
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- Aging adults
- Adults with chronic illness
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- Qualitative research w/expertise in Grounded Theory
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Matthias, April, PhD, RN, CNE Nurse Educator Program Coordinator & Associate Professor |
- Nursing history
- Entry-level Nursing Education Programs
- Online Nursing Education Pedagogies
- Professional identity and role development of the nurse
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- Nursing practice differentiation
- Self-reflection learning activities
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- Nursing students
- Entry‐level nurses
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- Historical Research
- Qualitative Research
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McCall, Jennifer, PhD, MBA Assistant Professor |
- Drug discovery and development
- Pharmaceutical mechanism of action
- Applied learning in online education
- Translational science and commercialization
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- Chemical, cellular and molecular analysis
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McEwen-Campbell, Michelle, DNP, MSN, RNC-OB-FNP, LNC, CNE Lecturer |
- Nursing self-efficacy
- Promoting chain-of-command
- Self-efficacy in nursing students
- Patient safety
- Promotion of healthy maternal/fetal outcomes
- Removing educational barriers for male nursing students
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- Maternal/child
- Evaluating chain-of‐command
- Self‐efficacy through high‐fidelity
- Student‐directed, Obstetrical simulation
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- Prelicensure BSN students
- Labor and delivery nurses
- Male BSN students
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Mechling, Brandy, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC Assistant Professor |
- Child and adolescent risk & resilience
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- Young (Emerging) adult outcomes
- Impact of parental mental illness on children and adolescents
- Parental depression and the impact on the parent‐child relationship
- Youth caregiving of a parent with mental illness
- Ambiguous Loss Theory
- Retrospective self‐report
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- Mental Health nursing
- Family mental health
- Psychotherapy with children, adolescents and young adults
- Community partnerships
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- Youth, adolescents, & families
- Young (Emerging) adults/ college students
- Individuals with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI)
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- Quantitative
- Mixed Methods
- Interviews focus groups
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Mendes, Michele, PhD, RN, CPN Assistant Professor |
- Community engaged research
- Health disparities
- Caregiver health issues
- Caregiver health self-management
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- Children with special healthcare needs
- Parents caring for children with special healthcare needs
- African American mothers caring for children with special healthcare needs
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- Qualitative (Description and Focused Ethnography)
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Murdock, Nancy, MSN, RNC, CNS Lecturer |
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- Labor and delivery
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- Pediatrics
- Community Partnership in Education
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Murray, Mary, MSN, RN Lecturer |
- Holistic care and management
- Workplace bullying
- Spirituality
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Palumbo, Ruthanne, DNP, RN, CNE, Assistant Professor |
- Opioid addiction and IV drug use
- Risk assessment and intervention
- Fostering civility amongst nursing students
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- Nursing education
- Nursing administration
- Clinical education: Cardiac, Neurology, Oncology and Med-Surg
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- Young adults-addiction
- Nursing student-civility
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- Quantitative
- Qualitative
- Mixed Methods
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Parker, Diane, DNP, MSN, FNP-C Lecturer & Graduate Clinical Coordinator |
- Pediatric asthma
- Pediatric/adolescent
- behavioral health
- Underserved
- populations and outreach
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- Pediatrics
- Women’s health
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Pennington, Barbara, MS, RN Program Coordinator & Lecturer |
- Clinical Research
- Ethics
- Global research
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- Protection of vulnerable populations in clinical research
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- Impoverished
- Diminished capacity to consent
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Peterson, Matthew, PhD Associate Professor |
- Exercise
- Aging
- Mobility
- Research design
- Analysis
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- Clinical exercise physiology
- Technology for mobility assessment
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- Older adults
- Veterans
- Government organizations
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- Advanced statistics
- Validation studies
- Epidemiologic study designs and analysis
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Petroff, Annemarie MS Lecturer |
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- Cardio-pulmonary
- Autonomic Nervous Systems
- Cardiac Rehab
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Protokowicz, Jodi, PhD, RN Assistant Professor |
- High-risk Obstetrics
- Mental health and Obstetrics
- Nursing student retention
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- Maternal and newborn health
- Online learning
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Obstetrics; High-risk pregnancy; and RN to BSN
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Reid, Paula, PhD, RNC, WHNP-BC Associate Professor |
- Identifying strategies that individuals living with HIV utilize to self-manage and cope with their conditions, to improve the quality of their lives
- Computer Assisted Instruction as a strategy for HIV/AIDS education and training for Healthcare Professionals
- Exploring the role of self-efficacy and self-esteem for HIV positive women managing their HIV
- Women's Health issues
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- Women's Health
- HIV management
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- Women's Health
- HIV positive women
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- Quantitative
- Qualitative
- Mixed methods
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Roberto, Anka, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, MPH Assistant Professor |
- Trauma and resilience
- Spirituality
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- Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (children and adolescents)
- Care of children with special needs/medical trauma
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- Children & Families, Those with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- Not for profit organizations
- Community-led coalitions
- Medical/healthcare organizations, school settings
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Saccomano, Scott, PhD, RN, GNP-BC Assistant Professor |
- Leadership and management - delegation and mentoring;
- Enhancing health of older adults
- Men in nursing
- Men's health
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- EBP for Advanced Practice
- Care of the elderly
- Men's health
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- Men
- Older Adults
- Geriatrics
- Nurses
- Allied Health Professionals
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Sauer, Penny, PhD, RN, CCRN, CNE Prelicensure Program Coordintator & Associate Professor |
- Nurse bullying
- Incivility
- Nurses workforce issue
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- Adult critical care
- Nurses workforce issues
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- Quantitative
- Focus groups
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Schweizer, Cynthia, MSN-NE, RN Lecturer |
- Self-regulated learning and clinical reasoning in Nursing
- Community Healthcare
- Intra-disciplinary team work
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Scott, Melissa, PhD, RN Assistant Professor |
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- Foundations Critical Care
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- Online Nursing Students/Faculty
- Geriatrics
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Sigmon, Lorie, DNP, RN, FNP Assistant Professor |
- Interprofessional education and collaborative practice
- Student leadership attributes
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- Critical care (SICU, CTICU & PACU)
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- Vulnerable populations
- Diabetes
- Leadership
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- Quantitative
- Qualitative
- Mixed methods
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Simmerman, Christy, MSN, RN Lecturer |
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- Teaching strategies in simulation
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Smith, Stephanie, PhD, RN Assistant Professor |
- Leadership
- Health and social service systems
- Indicators of community well-being
- Organization and program evaluation, performance measurement and accountability
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Thompson, C Elise, PhD, MSN, RN Lecturer |
- Technology and nursing education
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- Simulation Online learning Digital clinical experience
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- Nursing students
- Nurse educators
- Nurses
- Patients
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Turrise, Stephanie, PhD, RN, BC, APRN, CNE Interim Associate Director for Administration and Associate Professor |
- Chronic illness trajectories
- Transitions in care-particularly in CHF and Cardiovascular Disease (outcomes research, & treatment adherence)
- Simulation in Undergraduate Nursing Education
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- Cardiovascular Nursing
- Adults and older adults
- CHF
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Adults; Older adults; Vulnerable populations; and Chronically ill
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- Quantitative
- Qualitative
- Surveys
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Waddill, Colette, MSN, RN, IBCLC, CNE, CHSE Lecturer |
- Maternal-infant health
- Breastfeeding/lactation
- Simulation learning
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- Maternal-child nursing
- Lactation
- Simulation in healthcare
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- Mother and infants
- Nursing students
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Williams, Nina, MSN-NE, RN Lecturer |
- Obstetric emergencies
- Neonatal opioid addiction
- Legislative changes and effects in maternal-newborn outcomes
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- Maternal-child nursing
- Staff nurses working at bedside
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- Mothers & babies
- Postpartum mothers & babies
- Labor & delivery;
- Nurses & staff
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- Participatory
- Mixed Methods
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Woo, Seoyoon, PhD, RN Assistant Professor |
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-related stigma
- Impact of COPD-related stigma on psychological well-being, help-seeking behavior, medication adherence, self-management, quality of life
- Scale development
- Health care disparity
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- Physical activity
- Mindfulness
- Breathing technique
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- Populations: 1) people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (from diverse cultures in the future) and people with other stigma-related chronic conditions (e.g., people with lung cancer, people with diabetes mellitus, etc); 2) those who live in the community (or community-setting), medical/healthcare organizations
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- Qualitative methods: grounded theory
- Quantitative methods: survey, experiment, secondary data analysis
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