| Faculty member |
Interest areas |
Methodologies |
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*Uba Backonja
PhD, RN |
- Health informatics
- Visualization of community & clinical data
- Health disparities
- Women's health
- Community health nursing
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- Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods
- Participatory design
- Data visualization
|
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*Sunny Cheng
PhD, RN
|
- Mental health and psychiatry nursing
- Early identification and intervention for mental health conditions
- Translation of research to community settings
- Psychophysiological research
- Lifespan health
- Health equity
|
- Qualitative: grounded theory; content analysis
- Quantitative: randomized control trials, advanced statistical analysis
|
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*B. Jane Cornman
PhD, MN, RN
|
- Mind/body techniques
- Therapeutic Touch
- Integrative health
- Health coaching
|
- Outcome studies
- Qualitative and quantitative approaches
|
*Marjorie Dobratz
DNSc, MSN, RN |
- Terminal pain
- Psychological responses in dying persons
- Measurement of psychological adaptation in hospice/palliative care populations
- Development of Roy adaptation nursing theory
- Spirituality in end-of-life populations
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- Psychometrics
- Qualitative and quantitative approaches
|
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*Kathleen Shannon Dorcy
PhD, MN, RN
|
- Ethics and clinical research
- Oncology and research interventions
- Death and end of life issues
- Spirituality
- Teaching and learning styles
- History of nursing and healthcare
- Decision making in clinical trials
- Social Justice
- Hope
|
- Phase I, II, and III clinical trials
- Observational
- Interpretive
- Content analysis
- Discourse analysis
|
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*Denise Drevdahl
PhD, MS, RN
|
- Social justice
- Community Interventions with Populations of Underserved
- Health disparities
- Decision-making in clinical trials
- Health care and bias
|
- Critical and feminist theories
- Interpretive/qualitative
- Participatory action research
|
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*Robin Evans-Agnew
PhD, MN, RN
|
- Public Health
- Asthma
- Health inequities
- Enviromental justice
- Adolescent health
|
- Critical and feminist theories
- Interpretive/qualitative
- Community-based participatory action research
- Ethnography
- Critical discourse analysis
- Visual methods such as Photovoice
|
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*Sharon Gavin Fought
PhD, MSN, RN
|
- Decision making
- Emergency care, critical care
- Physiologically unstable patient populations
- Sleep—assessing and interventions to promote
- Education: teaching methods, curriculum, assessment
- Transport of patients/clients
|
- Descriptive surveys: comparative and correlational
- Qualitative approaches
- Case study
|
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*Katie Anne Haerling
PhD, MN, RN
|
- Human patient simulation
- Evaluation
- Reliability/validity/psychometric assessment global health
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- Quantitative: instrument development/assessment, psychometrics
- Qualitative: qualitative descriptive, focus groups
|
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*Susan L. Johnson
PhD, MN, RN
|
- Occupational health
- Workplace bullying and Incivility
- Environmental health
- Leadership
- Mentoring
|
- Discourse analysis
- Survey research
- Critical theory
|
*Sharon Laing
PhD |
- Community-based health promotion
- Patient-centered outcome research
- Social and psychological determinants of health
- Health inequalities and disparities
- Cancer prevention and control
- Mobile health promotion (mHealth)
|
- Quantitative research
- Qualitative research
- Mixed methods research
- Ecological Momentary Interventions
|
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*Patsy Maloney
Ed.D
|
- Nursing professional development
- Leadership
- Teaching and learning
- Emergency care in the community
|
- Descriptive surveys: comparative and correlational
- Foucus groups
- Case study
|
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*Janet Primomo
PhD, MN, RN
|
- Health policy
- Community health promotion
- Environmental health
- Global health
|
- Survey design and methods
- Evaluation research
|
*David Reyes
DNP, MN/MPH, RN, APHN-BC |
- Community interventions with underserved populations
- Health disparities, health equity and social justice
- Intersection and impact of policy, systems and environmental on health
- Organizational and leadership development
- Population health quality and systems improvement
- Public health nursing workforce development
- Undoing institutional racism
|
- Community based participatory approaches
- Content analysis/interpretive/qualitative
- Descriptive/survey methods
|
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*Christine Stevens
PhD, MPH, RN
|
- Adolescent health
- Influences of race, class and gender on adolescent health
- Public housing
- Community health nursing
- Using technology in adolescent research
- Food insecurity in adolescent populations
- Factors that influence new RN retention within the first two years following graduation
- Working with populations who are homeless
- Curriculum development
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- Qualitative methods
- Visual methods in research
- Critical methodology
- Community evaluation
|
*Weichao Yuwen
PhD, BSN, RN |
- Data science
- Family-centered care
- Health disparities
- Pediatric chronic conditions
- Sleep health
- Symptom science
|
- Interpretive/qualitative: inductive content analysis, grounded theory
- Quantitative: descriptive studies, survey methods, advanced statistical analyses (e.g., multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, data visualization), interventional studies
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