People Group Archives: Qualitative Research Methods

Lecturer Sandra Kirkland served for 15 years in Veterans Affairs medical centers, serving as a family nurse practitioner and chief nurse for mental health at facilities in Tennessee and Florida, and a nurse executive for the VA Medical Center in Alexandria, Louisiana. Broadly experienced in mental health, family medicine, gerontology, wound care, nurse education and […]

Mona Shattell is the chair of the Department of Nursing Systems, the Hugh F. and Jeannette G. McKean Endowed Chair, and a professor in the UCF College of Nursing. An internationally recognized mental health and psychiatric nursing expert, Shattell is the editor of the Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, and the author […]

Valerie C. Martinez, clinical associate professor at UCF’s College of Nursing, is a board-certified primary care pediatric nurse practitioner and pediatric mental health specialist with almost two decades of experience in pediatric healthcare including pediatric primary care, school-based health, neonatal care, and care of medically complex children. Her scholarly work, which has been presented nationally […]

Nurse/patient outcomes and organizational factors; Partners with nurse researchers and clinicians in acute care settings to implement best practices based on evidence; Big Data.

Older adults; Cancer; Symptom management and experience; Representation of symptoms and illness; Quality of life; Technology-based interventions; Nursing student and lay person knowledge of cancer and end of life issues.

Nurse-to-Nurse Handoff Communication in relation to Medical Errors.

Critical care; Verification of feeding tube placement; CORTRAK electromagnetic placement device; Evidence-based practice; Tradition-based practices/low-value care; De-implementation

Virtual and game-based simulation; Standardized patients; Interprofessional education using simulation; Innovative use and evaluation of simulation technology in preparing undergraduate and graduate students for nursing practice.

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.