My research interest is in the power of the nursing profession, the influence of nurses, and their roles in leadership and board governance.
Faculty Research Interests
My research interests pertain to the ways that nurses build knowledge during their formal education journey and throughout their nursing career.
Clinical Nurse Specialist education and clinical opportunities; JBI Translational Research; Physiology & Pathophysiology, Perianesthesia Nursing and Research critical appraisal & EBP.
My research interests include polypharmacy, older adults/older adult healthcare, nursing education, and anorexia in adolescents.
My research interests include: leadership in nursing education; evidence-based teaching strategies; veterans in nursing education; and gender diversity in nursing education.
My research interests include: missed nursing care, organizational features of nursing (nurse work environment, education, staffing), impact on patient outcomes, implementation, leadership, teamwork, nurse interruptions, incivility, and interprofessional simulation.
My research interests include the Business of Nursing Education, Nursing Leadership, Student Success, Genetics and ethics.
Epidemiology, biostatistics, assessment, survey sampling, educational measurement and database administration, design for data-driven program evaluation skills in psychometric analysis, research design, reliability and validity
My scholarship focuses on transcultural nursing and cultural competence, with the objective of contributing to the development of theoretically based transcultural nursing research, the advancement of transcultural nursing practice and the education of culturally competent healthcare professionals. Transcultural nursing is the means of describing, understanding, and explaining health beliefs and practices across cultures; it is compassionate and situated within a framework of social justice.
As a Public Health and Transcultural Nurse, I work to reduce health inequities by studying the health beliefs and practices of vulnerable populations. I aim to use my research to advance our understanding of the determinants of health, with the goal of developing specialized, culturally appropriate interventions that address health inequities amongst the most vulnerable, and to educate health care professionals on providing holistic, culturally competent care.
My current research is focused on understanding the determinants of human trafficking to contribute to the science of this critical, but neglected, area of nursing research.
My research interests include care of vulnerable populations, palliative care, and health care policy. I have presented nationally and internationally.
My research interest includes Nursing education methods, Nursing students' stress, Symptom management of Cancer patients during treatment, Pain management and palliative care.