Faculty Research Interests
Mary Jo Baisch
- Program planning and evaluation
- Community health, assessment, planning, & evaluation
- Prenatal health
- Adolescent health & parenting
Aaron G. Buseh
- Understanding factors associated with health and health care systems disparities
- Health and health care of vulnerable populations
- HIV/AIDS, STDs and sexual risk behaviors (target populations: adolescents, women and men)
- Social stigma and HIV/AIDS
- Global and cross-cultural health research
- Ethical and policy issues in international research
Amy Coenen
- International Classification for Nursing Practice
- Nursing Minimum Data Set
- Health care terminology standards
- Nursing informatics
Julie Darmody
- Adult Health
- Quality and safety in acute care
- Evidence-based practice
- Clinical Nurse Specialist practice
- Health services research
Susan Dean-Baar
- Adult physical rehabilitation
- Care of adults with chronic illness
- Patient education
- Quality and effectiveness of care
- Standards and guidelines for practice
- Nursing administration
- Nursing education
Elizabeth Devine
- Psycho-educational nursing care
- Acute pain
- Cancer pain
- Patient education
- Clinical practice guidelines
Jennifer Doering (formerly Runquist)
- Maternal health
- Postpartum fatigue
- Postpartum depression
- Postpartum nursing
- Mothering and feminism
- Motherhood ideology
- Rogerian Science
- Self-transcendence
Suzanne Falco
- Health care problems
- Data analysis
Suzanne Feetham
- Children and families
- Genomics and health
- Clinical information systems /changing practice
- Health policy
- Health services research
Susan A. Fontana
- Nurse practitioners
- Faculty practice
- Cancer prevention
- Primary care of adults, children, and families
Jeanne B. Hewitt
- Occupational & Environmental epidemiology-reproductive outcomes, cancer and other acute/chronic health problems, and injuries
- Occupational/environmental health
- Violence in the workplace
- Health surveillance
- Public health
- Health outcomes in minority populations including prevention of obesity through environmental and behavioral interventions
- Occupational Health Nursing
Eugenie Hildebrandt
- Health and work-based welfare
- Primary Health care
- Self-care
- HIV/AIDS
- International Healthcare
Teresa S. Johnson
- Term and pre-term infants
- Late preterm infants
- Infant anthropometrical measurements
- Fetal and infant growth
- In- and outpatient support of the breastfeeding mother-infant dyad
- Evidenced based practice protocols in neonatal care
- Fetal and infant morbidity and mortality
- Breastfeeding and work issues
Penninah Kako
- HIV/AIDS and Women
- Health needs evaluation
- International research (sub-Saharan Africa)
- Vulnerable populations
- Rural and urban comparative research
- Multicultural research
Tae Youn Kim
- Health informatics
- Quality measurement and reporting
- Decision support through health information technology
Christine R. Kovach
- Dementia care: pain management, behavior management, environmental design
- Older adult health and illness care
- Reminiscence therapy
- Effectiveness of Palliative care models
- Therapeutic activity interventions
Mary Pat Kunert
- Hypertension
- Microcirculation
- Women’s health
- Basic science study
Norma Lang
- Quality Indicators/measurement
- Nursing Informatics/Technology
- Nursing Terminology
- Computerized Decision Support/Documentation
- Translational Research
- Clinical Data bases
Jane Leske
- Family adaptation
- Coping
- Social support
- Critical care, nursing interventions
- Research utilization
- Patient responses to illness
Kim Litwack
- Per anesthesia Care
- Primary Care
- Nurse Practitioners
- Pain management
Sally Lundeen
- 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
Karen Marek
- Community-based long term care
- Medication management and the elderly
- Quality Evaluation
Sandra Millon-Underwood
- 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
Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu
- Violence against women
- Third world women’s health
- Domestic violence
Sarah Morgan
- 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
Karen Morin
- Obesity in women, particularly during pregnancy
- Maternal-child health
- Infant Nutrition
- Gendered issues in women health care
- Faculty Development
Carol Ott
- Grief/loss/complicated grief
- Grief in family members of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia’s
- Health promotion– social norms approach with adolescents and young adults
- End of Life: Palliative care
- Bereavement in Older Adults
- Developmental issues across the lifespan
Sandra K. Plach
- Chronic disease (specifically cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS)
- Women’s health (pertaining to chronic disease)
- Critical care – adults
- Acute care – adults
- Cardiovascular care – adults
Beth Rodgers
- Nursing knowledge development
- Philosophy
- Loss and major life change
- Sleep Disorders
- Computer applications for qualitative data analysis
- Non linguistic approaches to inquiry
Kathleen Sawin
- 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
Rachel Schiffman
- Maternal – child health
- Women’s health
- Family health
- Prenatal care
- Early childhood interventions
- Nutrition in children
Julia A. Snethen
- 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
Michelle Simpson
- Acute and long-term health care
- Work engagement
- Work environment
- Job satisfaction
- Turnover cognitions
Patricia E. Stevens
- HIV/AIDS
- Vulnerable populations
- Health disparities
- Access to health and social services
- Women’s health
- Community health