Faculty Research Interests and Expertise
- Maternal/Newborn Care
- Human Lactation
- Adult Education
- Maternal/newborn nursing
- Health care systems issues, such as quality, safety, outcomes, and leadership in organizations
- Interprofessional education
- Simulation
- 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
- Geriatric Values Assessment in Oncology
- Health Services Research: Models of Cancer Care Delivery, Role of Advanced Practice Providers in Cancer Care Delivery
- 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
- 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
Public Health Nursing
- 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
Medical/Surgical Nursing
- 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
Nurse-Midwifery
- 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
- Maternal – Child health
- Breastfeeding
- Newborn safety
- Adolescent mental health
- Maternal mental health
- Child and adolescent Immunizations Early Intervention
- Prevention of childhood obesity
- 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
Binge Eating
Eating Disorders
Weight Stigma
Body Image
Stress and Appetite Hormones
Obesity
- 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