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.
