People Group Archives: Emeriti

Professor Emerita

Chronic illness; Clinical teaching; Lifelong learning; and Promotion of professional publication.

Cardiovascular disease and cardiac rehabilitation.

Hypertension, including physiological and behavioral risk factors, the influence of birth weight on dysregulation of the cardiovascular system and development of adult hypertension, cardiovascular health promotion intervention programs to decrease hypertension risk in adolescents; Physiological measurements (e.g., salivary cortisol).

Decision making by nurses, patients and families; Faith-based nursing; Managing chronic illness, Evaluating educational technology; Qualitative research designs

Rural health care/nursing issues; Community/public health nursing; Cultural/linguistic competence; Qualitative research methodologies.

Nurse satisfaction and retention in the workplace, including environmental and worker analysis, with a special focus on transition of new nurses.

Improving outcomes during critical illness, including airway management and preventing infection; Assessment and application of simulation/technology and physiological monitoring in the clinical and classroom setting.