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College of Nursing

Faculty Research Interests

 

DEBORAH BROWN, MS, RN, Associate Professor -Gerontology/aging  families, home care/family caregivers; public health issues; health care delivery systems; community resources; health promotion; leadership.

 

PATRICIA M. BURBANK, DNSc, RN, Professor - Meaning in life; gerontology; health behavior change; fall prevention; long-term care issues; alternative health care strategies.

 

KAREN CAINES, PhD(c), MSN, RN, Assistant Professor - Health youth development; excessive weight concerns in early adolescent girls; ethnographic methods.

 

REBECCA CARLEY, MS, RNC, RNP, Assistant Clinical Professor - Primary care of women; spirituality; graduate nursing education; care for the homeless.

 

SUZANNE CARR, MS, RN, Lecturer - Emergency nursing; med-surg nursing; simulation learning: the effects on student learning; enhancing clinical practice outcomes.

 

DENISE A. COPPA, PhD, RNP, Associate Professor, Director, Family Nurse Practitioner Program - Alternative health care therapies; pain; wound healing; health care of vulnerable populations.

 

WYLIE DASSIE, RN, MSN, Assistant Clinical Professor - Prostate and testicular cancer research; minority health issues; men’s health issues; diversity in nursing issues.

 

NANCY DOYLE-MOSS, MS, RN, Assistant Clinical Professor - Matters concerning disaster preparedness in bioterrorism; simulation in nursing education.

 

JOAN R. DUGAS, MS, RN, Assistant Clinical Professor - Gerontology and community health nursing.

 

LYNNE M. DUNPHY, PhD, RN, Professor, Routhier Endowed Chair - Nursing history, technology, workforce issues and nursing shortage, Florence Nightingale.

 

MARLENE A. DUFAULT, PhD, RN, Professor - Research utilization; evidence-based practice; competency-based evaluation; pain management; evaluation/outcomes research; translation research.

 

MARYLEE EVANS, MS, RN, Assistant Clinical Professor - Thanatology; gerontology; spirituality; nursing education; health promotion.

 

ROBERTA FEATHER, EdD, RN, JD, Associate Professor - Nurse attorneys; medical malpractice; nursing negligence; political involvement: city, state, national; historical research in psychiatry.

 

GINETTE G. FERSZT, PhD, RN, CS, Associate Professor, Director, Graduate Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Program - Loss, grief, and bereavement; the arts in health care; grief of women in prison; pregnant women in prison; hospice.

 

DIANE GERZEVITZ, MS, RN-C, FNP  Assistant Clinical Professor - Nurse practitioner roles; spiritual care; inner-city health care; cross-cultural health issues; palliative care.

 

CAROLYN C. HAMES, MS, RN, CT, Associate Professor - Thanatology; grief and loss in children and adolescents; death education.

 

ANNE HECKER, MS, RN, Lecturer - Pediatric nursing; home care.

 

CAROLINE JENCKES, MS, RN, FNP, Lecturer - Family nurse practice; adult and gerontological primary care.

 

DAYLE HUNT JOSEPH, EdD, RN, Associate Professor, Dean – Behavior change in clients with diabetes; coaching, an intervention for people struggling with diabetes; nursing work force issues.

 

LAURIE LAUZON CLABO, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Coordinator, Clinical Nurse Leader - Pain assessment in nursing practice; clinical decision making; unit culture and nursing practice.

 

MARY LAVIN, MS, RN, Assistant Clinical Professor - Medical Surgical Nursing - educational issues in the clinical area; oncology nursing; pain management; spirituality; mentoring; health-care in the primary care setting.

 

MARY LEVEILLEE, MS, RN, CS, Assistant Clinical Professor - Psychiatric mental health nursing; eating disorders; women's issues.

 

JUDITH S. MERCER, DNSc, CNM, FACNM, Clinical Professor - Birth practices (especially umbilical cord clamping), newborn transition, nurse-midwifery and breastfeeding.

 

JEAN R. MILLER, PhD, RN, Professor, Weyker Endowed Chair of Thanatology - Spirituality, loss, death, and grief.

 

KARA MISTO, MS, RN, Lecturer - Emergency nursing; med-surg nursing; lateral violence.

 

BARBARA S. O'BRIEN, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor - Pain perception, assessment and management; innovative educational strategies.

 

MARY LOUISE PALM, MS, RN, Assistant Clinical Professor - Pain in children; computers in nursing; pediatric nursing care.

 

ANN ROCHETTE, MS, RN, Lecturer - Pediatric nursing; congenital heart disease and parent support/education.

 

LORRAINE SCHWARTZ, GNP, RNC, Assistant Clinical Professor - Long term care; medical errors; nursing transitions to novice again in graduate school.

 

DONNA SCHWARTZ-BARCOTT, PhD, RN, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies - Pain, anxiety and other central phenomenon experienced by patients across nursing care settings; community health; inductive approaches to theory development; sociocultural influences in health and illness.

 

PATRICIA STOUT, MS, RNP, RN, Assistant Clinical Professor - Med-surg nursing; pain management; educational issues in clinical areas.

 

MARY C. SULLIVAN, PhD, RN, Professor - Developmental outcomes of low birthweight infants; neuroimaging (MRI/fMRI) in children w/clinical problems; maternal interaction styles.

 

PAULA A. VIAU, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Associate Dean - Health concerns and practices of the older pregnant woman; nursing education - collaborative teaching; fetal surveillance during the prenatal period; defining risk and vulnerability among various populations.

 

EVELYN M.J. YEAW, PhD, RN, Professor - Hypoxia; dyspnea; congestive heart failure.

 

HELEN ZAKEWICZ, RN, MS, Lecturer - Maternal postures in labor; urogynecology; perimenopausal care; relationship of birth and death care; gender issues in health care.

 

JEINY ZAPATA, MS, RN, Lecturer - Medical-surgical nursing.