Faculty Research Interests and Expertise

• Change Management
• Health Literacy
• Health Disparities
• Diversity and Inclusiveness in Nursing
• Health Care Workforce Issues
• Patient Satisfaction
• Nursing Sensitive Indicators
• Public Policy
• Implicit Bias
• Intersectionality
• Institutional Racism

• Outcomes of nursing and health care management practices
• Adaptation in chronic illness and Intersection of care systems
• Aging families and chronic illness management

• Gerontological Nursing, Health Services Research
• Nurse and Direct Care Worker Staffing and Service Provision in Residential Care/Assisted Living
• Staff Training Interventions in Long-Term Care
• Evaluating Care for Older Adults with Dementia in Long-Term Care Settings (Nursing Homes, Residential Care/Assisted Living, and the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly)
• Interdisciplinary Research
• Family Caregiving and Family Management of Dementia Care
• Nursing workforce in long-term care

• Intervention to reduce depressive symptoms and anxiety in high-risk mothers of infants and toddlers (specifically low-income mothers of diverse ethnicity)
• Intervention to reduce depressive symptoms in mothers of infants and toddlers with suspected developmental disabilities receiving Early Intervention services (federally funded enrichment services through the IDEA legislation)
• Mental health intervention research with Latino families with Limited English Language Proficiency (LEP)
• Mental health interventions with limited literacy populations
• Implementation of evidence-based mental health practice change (large-scale)
• Psychotherapy for Depressive Symptoms and Depression
• Increasing Access to Mental Health Care using Alternative Methods (In-Home Delivery, Language Interpreters, Integrated Models [Primary Health Care and Community Service Agencies])
• Tailoring Interventions to Increase Acceptability to Multiple Cultural and Community Applications Interpersonal Theory of Nursing (Peplau): Development, Extension, and Application)
• Advanced Practice Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing – All Groups and Populations (Including Individual, Group, Milieu, and Family Therapy Modalities)
• General Linear Models and hierarchical multiple regression analysis
• Diversity and Inclusiveness in Nursing
• Active Learning and Classroom Evaluation Strategies in Teaching

• Weight Management Interventions for Low-Income African-American, Hispanic, and Caucasian Families
• Weight Management Interventions for Low-Income Spanish-Speaking Families
• Prevention of Obesity in Low-Income African-American, Hispanic, and Caucasian Families
• Prevention and Management of Type 2 Diabetes
• Management of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
• Weight Management in Pregnant and Postpartum Women

• Neonatal Care
• Late preterm infants
• Pediatric Emergency
• Pediatric Intensive Care
• Primary Care Peds
• School Nurse Lecturer
• Neonatal Intensive Care

• Perinatal Loss
• Pregnancy after Severe Fetal Diagnosis
• High-Risk Pregnancy, Labor, and Delivery
• Maternal Identity and Role Attainment
• Maternal-Infant Interaction
• Prenatal Technology
• Reproductive Loss in Lesbian Couples

• Care of the older adult with cancer and caregiver
• Patient reported outcomes and symptoms in hematological malignancies
• Health related quality of life in adults with cancer
• Diabetes and Cancer impact on Health Related Quality of Life
• Utilization of health services
• Mentoring paradigms

• Community Health/Public Health
• Faith-Based Health Initiatives
• Adolescents and diabetes
• Adolescent Health Promotion
• School Health
• Clinical Teaching

• Bayesian Statistical Methods
• Missing Data
• Mixed Models
• Functional Data Analysis
• Measurement Error

• Effects of Administrative/Leadership Contexts on Quality of Care
• Medication Errors
• Quality and Safety Educational Pedagogies

• Primary Care of Children
• Chronic Illness in Children
• Bibliometrics
• Nursing Education
• Evaluation of Internet Health Information
• Integrative Reviews

• Surgical Nursing
• Postoperative care
• Informatics
• Geriatrics
• Gastroenteology/GI Nursing

• Childhood Asthma and Allergies
• Breastfeeding
• Adolescent Health and Primary Care

• Family Nurse Practitioner: Primary Care and Community Oriented Care
• Health Disparities and Underserved Populations
• Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Primary Care and Community/Population Focus
• Global Health
• School Nursing
• Population Health
• Hypertension
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases

• Use of Simulation in Nursing Education (Including the Use of the Human Patient Simulator)
• Safe Patient Handling and Movement (Incorporating into Curriculum)
• Nursing Education with a focus on skill acquisition
• Interdisciplinary Teamwork and Communication
• Quality and Safety in Nursing Education
• Integration of Concepts into Simulation

• Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Private Practice
• Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP); Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) for Health Professionals EAGALA Model
• Mindfulness; Mindfulness-based psychotherapies
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT); Emotion-focused therapies
• Women’s, Perinatal & Postpartum Mood Disorders
• Qualitative Research Methodologies

Past/other areas of work/interest

• Patient-provider interactions
• Women’s Experiences With & Barriers To Health Care
• Sexual Assault , Substance Abuse And Health Care Seeking Behavior
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Health Care for LGBT population
• Health Care for LGBT population, Immigrant Hispanic Women’s Health;
• Women’s Reproductive Health Care, Contraception, IUDs, Breastfeeding

• Program Evaluation
• Curriculum Development and Evaluation of Student Learning
• Community Development and Interventions for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
• Strategies to Enhance Diversity in Undergraduate Nursing Education
• Academic Testing and Support to Improve/Maintain NCLEX First-Time Pass Rates and Student Retention
• Accreditation and Regulation Processes

• Maternal/Newborn Care
• Evidence-Based Women’s Health Care
• Contraception
• Second-Trimester Abortion
• Teen Pregnancy
• Abnormal PAP Smears
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Midlife Women Pre-conceptional and Pre-Natal Health
• Growth and Development

• Psychological Stress
• Health Disparities
• Health Equity
• Mental Health
• Stress Management
• Complementary and Alternative Interventions Mind Body Interventions
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Community-Based Research
• Community/Academic Partnerships
• Health Promotion in African American Communities Women’s Mental and Physical Health
• Instrument Development
• Designing Culturally-Relevant interventions
• Intersectionality
• Superwoman Schema Conceptual Framework
• Stress-Related Coping Strategies (e.g., Using Food to Cope with Stress/Stress-Related Eating)
• Stress Factors Related to Obesity

• Pediatric Emergency Nursing
• Pediatric Triage and Assessment
• Pediatric Head Injuries
• The Emergency Severity Index

• Public Health Nursing
• Global Health

• Racial and ethnic disparities
• Access to health care End of life
• Hospice Utilization
• Health Literacy
• Patient Education
• Staff Development

• Early Childhood Obesity Prevention
• Parenting
• Feeding during Infancy and Toddlerhood
• Child Development
• Observational Methods
• Developmental Science

• Nutrition in Older Adults
• Gerontology (Especially Sleep in Older Adults)
• Spirituality

• Play Therapy with children 3-12
• Play Therapy concepts across the lifespan
• Student-centered learning
• Curriculum/program development
• Reflective practice

• Burn Wound Care
• Pain Management in the Post-Operative Chronic Pain Patient

• Strategies to increase immunization uptake
• Implementation strategies to reduce toxic exposures

• Self and family management in individuals and families living with sickle cell disease
• Self-care in chronic illness
• Health Disparities in minority populations
• Theory-based interventions

• Cardiovascular Health
• Diabetes
• Pediatric Primary Care Topics (and Other Topics Applicable to Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Practice)

• Nursing Turnover and Retention
• Nursing Workforce and Labor Market
• Costs and Quality Outcomes
• Nursing Work Environment
• Health Services Research
• Point-of-Care Research

• Pediatric gastroenterology disorders/diseases, particularly inflammatory bowel disease, feeding difficulties
• Adolescent care
• Chronic illness
• Adherence
• Transition of care to adulthood

• Human factors (Human-Computer Interaction)
• EHR usability
• Telemedicine/mobile health
• Cancer research
• Critical care research

• Organizational change focused on patient care delivery and outcomes
• Team interaction
• Health technology implementation
• Qualitative research

• Analysis of Categorical Data
• Analysis of Family Data
• Analysis of Longitudinal Data
• Analysis of Electronically Monitored Adherence Data
• Cluster Analysis
• Evaluation of Survey Instruments
• Adaptive Selection of Statistical Models
• Nonparametric Regression and Classification

• Family Response to Childhood Chronic Illness
• Family Management Style Framework
• Qualitative Research
• Knowledge Synthesis and Synthesis Research
• Instrument Development

• Mitigating Health Inequities Related to Social and Economic Disadvantage
• Social Determinants of Health
• Welfare/Unemployment/Employment and Chronic Disease Prevention/Management
• Linking Public Health and Primary Care Systems
• Community-Based Participatory Research
• Public Health Nursing Models of Care/Home Visiting
• Complexity Theory
• Systems Science Methods
• Transdisciplinary Team Science
• Physiological Mechanisms Related to Chronic Stress Population Health Disparities

• Reproductive Justice
• Maternal and newborn health
• Human lactation and breastfeeding
• Preserving Normalcy of Childbirth in an Increasingly Medicalized Model of care Teen Motherhood
• Midwifery
• Doula Care
• Interprofessional health education
• Sex trafficking and the nursing role

• Translating Research to Practice
• Implementing Change in Practice
• Disseminating Research Findings
• Health Disparities
• Obesity Prevention

• Abdominal surgery post-operative care
• GI Disorders
• Clinical Education of nursing students in adult health

• Adult cardiology
• Preventative cardiology

• Perioperative Nursing
• Adult Education
• Global Nursing

• Definition and Measurement of Quality of Care
• Work Satisfaction
• Organizational Commitment
• Patients’ Expectations for Care
• Outcome Measurement
• Instrument Development and Evaluation

• Organization of Acute Care Health Systems
• Organization Theory
• Work Environment and Patient Safety Research
• Quality of Care in Acute Care Hospitals
• Nurse Staffing

• Cancer Survivorship Issues
• Cancer Survivor Care Delivery
• Cancer Quality of Life
• Cancer Information Seeking
• Online Focus Groups and Surveys
• Website Development
• eHealth Applications

• Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
• Perceptions of Illness, Faith, and Self-Care Behaviors
• Home Health Care and Community-Based Nursing
• Community-Based Research
• Clinical Instruction of Nursing Students
• Poverty Research and Simulations

• Newborn Care
• Neonatal Intensive Care
• Pediatric Nursing
• Clinical Teaching

• Type 2 diabetes mellitus management
• Childhood/Adolescent obesity
• Chronic disease prevention and management
• Health disparities
• Patient health outcomes improvement
• Critical Care of hospitalized patients
• Nursing Diagnoses in patient care
• Hospital administration/Resource utilization

• Public Health Nursing
• School Health and School Nursing
• Lifelong Learning and Adult Education
• International Educational Development in Nursing
• Service Learning with vulnerable populations

• Acute Care of Older Adults
• Arthritis and Joint Replacement
• Delirium in Older Adults
• Nutrition

• Geriatrics, gerontology, aging
• Health policy
• Behavioral change theories
• Lower urinary tract symptoms in adults
• Research in Women’s Health Interdisciplinary Research
• Global Aging Leadership

• Emergency Medicine
• Point-of-care Ultrasound
• Critical Access Hospitals

• Provider Biases, Stereotypes, Attributions, and Their Impact on Patient Outcomes
• Psychotherapy
• Psychotherapy in Cancer and Chronic Illness
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Subtle Distortions of Western Culture and Their Influence on Health
• Race, Class, Age, and Gender Issues in the United States Organizational Culture and Psychology
• Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy
• Inter-professional Education in Interpersonal Communication

• Biomarkers; chronic stress, theory-based intervention research
• Evidence-based care, childhood and adolescent-young adult (AYA) oncology
• Health disparities, AYA oncology
• Health-related quality of life, pediatric and AYA oncology
• Illness uncertainty, pediatric and AYA life-threatening illness
• Parentis/parenting, pediatric and AYA life threatening illness
• Posttraumatic stress symptoms/disorder and posttraumatic growth, pediatric and AYA life-threatening illness
• Stress, appraisal and coping; pediatric and AYA life-threatening illness
• Survivorship
• Technology; use in research
• Theory-based intervention, pediatric and AYA life threatening illness
• Transition to adult care and/or primary care, AYA life threatening illness
• Treatment fidelity

• Perinatal mental health in mothers and fathers
• Latino’s health (immigration, acculturation, and health disparities) Family health (low-income, and multi-ethnic families)
• Parent-infant interaction
• Affective symptom trajectories
• Neurobiology of affective symptoms
• Qualitative and mixed-methods research
• Longitudinal research
• Biobehavioral research
• Non-invasive methods for assessing biological data in home-based studies (specifically oxytocin and vasopressin)
• Cross-language issues
• Symptom science

• Curriculum Development
• Leadership
• Program Evaluation
• Administration
• Adult Health
• Health Literacy

• Categorical Data Analysis
• Longitudinal Data Analysis

• Prevention of obesity
• Diabetes/HTN
• Community Health Homes

• Quality and Safety in Nursing Education
• Pain Management Outcomes
• Team Work as a Variable in Patient Safety
• Caring Theories that Define Relational Aspects of Nursing
• Spirituality and Health Care
• Healthy Work Environments
• Global Health and Nursing
• International Educational Development in Nursing
• Qualitative/Meta-Synthesis

• Sex differences in lung disease – roles of sex hormones
• Biomarkers for lung disease diagnosis and progression
• Mechanisms of air pollution-induced lung inflammation

• Hospice
• End of Life Care
• Geriatric/home health/community based care

• Integrated Health Care (especially integration of behavioral health into primary care)
• Somatization and Psychosomatic Disorders
• Malingering and Factitious Disorders
• Psychopharmacology (Education, Teaching, Practice)
• Rural and Remote Mental Health Care Issues Participatory Research
• Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials Research Simulated Patient Experiences
• Evaluation of PMHNP Competencies
• Emancipatory pedagogy
• Curriculum transition from Clinical Nurse Specialist in PMHN to Family Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program
• HRSA Grants
• Psychiatric-Mental health Workforce

• Quality of life of cancer survivors and family caregivers
• Stress and coping during cancer survivorship
• Patients-family caregivers-health care professional communication in oncology care
• Patient-family interaction and caregiving during cancer survivorship
• Racial disparities in cancer care
• Research methodology
• Prostate cancer treatment decision making

• Research Design, Assessment and Measurement
• Geriatrics
• End of Life Issues and Access to Nursing Education

• Development of Early Oral Feeding Skills
• Behavioral and Physiologic Responses to Oral Feeding during Infancy
• Caregiver Co-Regulatory Feeding Interventions
• Caregiver Working Models of Feeding Co-Regulation
• Feeding Problems of Young Children and Their Families Observational Methods
• Biobehavioral Measures

• Transitional care and discharge planning
• Intervention development for improving care systems for older adults
• Patient care in skilled nursing facilities
• Patient-centered outcomes research
• Translating organizational research into practice
• Health services research

• Informatics
• Emergency Nursing
• Emergency Department Triage
• Health Data Standards
• Public Health and Syndromic Surveillance
• Natural Language Processing
• Asthma Surveillance

• Trauma Emergency Room
• Long-term Care Education
• Cardiovascular

• Adaptation and Resiliency in Families of Individuals with Genetic Conditions
• Family Experience of Living with or Being Tested for a Genetic Condition
• Family-Provider Relationships
• Ethical Implications of Advances in Genomics
• Feeding Issues for Children with Genetic Conditions/Disabilities
• Siblings of Children with Down Syndrome and other chronic conditions
• Genetic Testing in Minority Families
• Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of Large Scale Genomic Research

• Maternal/Newborn Care
• Human Lactation
• Pediatric Development
• Screening (Birth to Age 5)
• Educational Advancement for RN to MSN

• Health Economics
• Costs of Healthcare
• Quality Improvement
• Costs of Quality Improvements
• Access to Health Care Services

• Rehabilitation Nursing
• Orthopedic Nursing
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Bowel and Bladder Dysfunction
• Hospice Nursing

• Family Nurse Practitioner (Primary Care)
• Nursing Education
• Pediatric Nursing
• Pediatric Critical Care
• Medical/Surgical Nursing
• Student Leadership (Association of Nursing Students)
• Nursing Leadership
• Curriculum and Instruction

• Pediatric Nursing
• Medical Surgical Nursing
• End of Life Care
• Nursing Education

• Cardiovascular Nursing
• Medical-Surgical Nursing
• Geriatric Nursing
• Medication Adherence
• Pre-hospital Delay
• Health Disparity
• Self-Care Behavior

• Community-based Lifestyle Interventions during Pregnancy
• Women’s Cardiovascular Health
• Culturally Competent Care for Asian Families
• Language Barriers: Access to Care

• Electrocardiography
• Acute Coronary Syndrome
• Emergency Department
• Triage and Risk Stratifications
• Cardiovascular Systems of Care

• End-of-Life Care
• Intensive Care Nursing
• Instrument Development and Evaluation Family Satisfaction
• Nursing Satisfaction
• Neuroscience
• Clinical Nurse Leader
• Interprofessional Education and Collaboration