Ph.D. Faculty Research Interests

Healthcare Delivery Systems, Decision Making, Models of Care, Team Interactions, Patient-Centered Care, Nursing

Incontinence, Psychometrics and scale development, Mentoring, Cultural Diversity, Nursing

RN to BSN education, Professional identity development, Online education, Community of Practice, Nursing

Rehospitalization, Personalized self-care with chronic illness, Telehealth, Oncology in-home symptom management, Nursing interventions in complementary approach, Patient outcome measures and quality of life, Online teaching and learning, symptom management, community self-care, cancer populations, family caregivers, complementary alternative approaches and strategies

Children's Health Outcomes, Pediatric Asthma Health Outcomes, symptom management, Chronic illness self-management, Healthcare provider-caregiver-child communications, Community-Based Participatory Research

Palliative care, Hospice Care, Family Caregiver, Hospice Nursing

Diversity, Socioeconomic Status Educational Gap, Nursing, Nursing Simulation

Critical Care Nursing, Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Family Caregiver, End of life

Adolescence, End-of-Life Care, Parentally-Bereaved Adolescents, Cancer, Hospice, Nursing, family impact

Health Policy, Leadership, Nursing Regulation, Online teaching and learning, Distance Education, Self-study of practice, Mixed methods research, Nursing and Healthcare Management, Instrument Development

End-Of-Life, Oncology, Spirituality, Spiritual Uncertainty, Qualitative methods

Chronic Non-Cancer Pain, Family Therapy Models, Integrated Care Models, Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Gerontological nursing, Geriatrics, Technology, online teaching

Pediatric nursing, Pediatrics, Resourcefulness, Childhood overweight and obesity, Physical activity, self-control, overeating, physical activity in pediatric populations, children's chronic stress, lead, executive functions, family dynamics

Posttraumatic growth, Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Qualitative Research