Faculty Research Interests
Jo Ann Appleyard
Jo Ann Appleyard
- Nursing and health care systems administration
- Ambulatory care and ambulatory nursing practice
- Case management and disease management
- Telephone triage systems
- Program planning and evaluation
- Community health, assessment, planning, & evaluation
- Prenatal health
- Adolescent health & parenting
- Gerontology
- Long-term care
- Spirituality
- Faith Community Nursing
- Health and health care systems disparities
- Health/health care of vulnerable populations
- HIV/AIDS, STDs and sexual risk behaviors
- Social stigma and HIV/AIDS
- Global and cross-cultural health research
- Ethical and policy issues in international research
- Neural pathways controlling body temperature and blood pressure
- Endocrine secretion in response to a variety of stresses
- Developing clinical decision support systems
- Developing computer interpretable guidelines
- Clinical data acquisition and analysis
- International Classification for Nursing Practice
- Nursing Minimum Data Set
- Health care terminology standards
- Nursing informatics
- Family theory development
- Alcoholism and the family
- Nursing education science
- Nursing leadership
- Adult health
- Quality and safety in acute care
- Evidence-based practice
- Clinical nurse specialist practice
- Health services research
- Postpartum sleep
- Actigraphy
- Postpartum fatigue
- Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders with a focus on postpartum depression
- Postpartum nursing
- Sleep-related infant death and the sleep environment
- Maternal health and health disparities in birth outcomes
- Mothering and feminism; motherhood ideology
- Grounded theory methodology
- Health care problems
- Data analysis
- Children and families
- Genomics and health
- Clinical information systems /changing practice
- Health policy
- Health services research
- Nurse practitioners
- Faculty practice
- Cancer prevention
- Primary care of adults, children, and families
- HIV/AIDS and Faith-Based Interventions
- Homeless Health Care
- Adult Mental Health
- Health Care Access for the Urban Poor
- Occupational & Environmental epidemiology-reproductive outcomes, cancer and other acute/chronic health problems, and injuries
- Occupational/environmental health
- Public health/health surveillance
- Prevention of obesity through environmental and behavioral interventions in minority populations
- Occupational health nursing
- Term and pre-term infants; fetal/infant growth
- Infant anthropometrical measurements
- Breastfeeding mother-infant dyad support
- Evidenced based practice protocols in neonatal care
- Fetal and infant morbidity and mortality
- Breastfeeding and work issues
- Older Adult
- Dementia
- Acute card and chronic care
- Clinical decision support through information technology
- HIV/AIDS and Women
- Health needs evaluation
- International research (sub-Saharan Africa)
- Vulnerable populations
- Rural and urban comparative research
- Multicultural research
- Dementia care: pain management, behavior management, environmental design
- Older adult health and illness care
- Reminiscence therapy
- Effectiveness of Palliative care models
- Therapeutic activity interventions
- Quality indicators/measurement
- Nursing informatics/technology
- Nursing terminology
- Computerized decision support/documentation
- Translational research
- Clinical data bases
- Family adaptation
- Coping
- Social support
- Critical care, nursing interventions
- Research utilization
- Patient responses to illness
- Pre anesthesia care
- Primary care
- Nurse practitioners
- Pain management
- Community Nursing Centers
- Primary health care
- Computerized clinical documentation systems
- Intervention outcomes with vulnerable populations
- Nursing workforces
- Community assessment health disparities
- Practice-based research networks
- Violence against women
- Third world women’s health
- Domestic violence
- Gerontology – family caregivers of persons with dementia
- Cultural diversity
- Health and health care disparities
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health
- Online teaching
- Grant start-up and management
- Obesity in women, particularly during pregnancy
- Maternal-child health
- Infant nutrition
- Gendered issues in women health care
- Faculty development
- Adolescent and emerging
- Adult health
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Sexual health
- Women’s health
- Adolescent health
- Sexual health
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Health behavior theory
- Patient-centered interventions
- Adaptation to chronic conditions for children and their families
- Adolescent and family protective factors (resilience factors) in Spina Bifida
- Secondary conditions and disability
- Quality of life (and health related quality of life)
- Self-management of chronic conditions in children and adolescents
- Family centered care
- Women (including young adolescent women) with disability
- Maternal – child health
- Women’s health
- Family health
- Prenatal care
- Early childhood interventions
- Nutrition in children
- Program planning and evaluation
- Community health assessment, planning and evaluation
- Vulnerable populations and health disparities
- Chronic disease management
- Community health nursing
- Faith community nursing
- Genetic and environmental interactions affecting childhood obesity
- Biobehavioral research
- Health promotion interventions
- Infant health
- Maternal and child health
- Health of minority and vulnerable populations
- Childhood obesity
- Chronic conditions in children and adolescents
- Parents/siblings of children with chronic conditions
- Family focused care
- Creative teaching strategies
- Maternal-child health care/post-partum
- International nursing
- HIV/AIDS
- Vulnerable populations
- Health disparities
- Access to health and social services
- Women’s health
- Community health
- Gerontology informal caregivers role
- Nurses’ job satisfaction, commitment, and retention
- Home health care
- Earlier limited fluid resuscitation for uncontrolled traumatic hemorrhagic shock
- Nursing didactics
- Interpersonal violence
- Mental health
- Minority research
- Feminist theory
- Cancer early detection and control (breast, prostate, colon, lung and cervical)
- Family/Hereditary cancer risk assessment and management
- Cancer survivorship
- Evidenced based cancer nursing practice
- Community-based care
- Participation of minorities and women in research
- Health disparities
- Violence and abuse and women living with HIV/AIDS
- Nurse managed health center services
- Adolescent pregnancy prevention
- Krieger-Kunz Therapeautic Touch
