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Faculty Interests & Representative Publications

Faculty Name	Interests
Azzarello, Jo	Cognition during problem solving, diabetes self-management education/ decision-making, development of expertise, mental models, structural knowledge, cognitive tutors, situation awareness, prospective memory
Benefield, Lazelle	Distance care-giving of older adults living at home, distance care-giving needs of persons with Alzheimer's disease, case management of community-based elders, distance caregiving and technology innovation; Reynolds Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, OUHSC
Bowers, Beverly	Labor support, self-efficacy, and their relationship to postpartum depression; immunization education; continuing education and retention of new SN graduates in inpatient settings; work status of nurses who completed a nurse refresher course
Buckner, Sheryl	Health literacy; ethnicity and aging; health promotion and aging, particularly how older adults transition from an acute care setting to their home; cultural competence, health disparities and community health; health utilization and community-based participatory research
Craft, Melissa	Reflection and expressive writing and breast cancer risk reduction and survivorship
Cuaderes, Elena	Effects of weight-bearing physical activity on foot health of diabetics, American Indian health, new and emerging therapies for diabetic seismometer poly-neuropathy (DSPN), diabetes, foot ulcers and diabetes, pain of DSPN, nursing process
Dwyer, Kathleen	Cancer prevention strategies in minority and underserved populations; cancer survivorship issues, with a particular focus on African American women; cancer supportive care in the clinical setting, community-based participatory research methods; community-based health promotion using faith-based collaborative partners; fall prevention in community dwelling elderly using health ministries as providers; Vitamin D supplementation to treat symptoms in women with breast cancer
Ellerbee, Susan	Mother-baby unit care, breastfeeding; Native American breastfeeding practices, mothering experiences of adolescents, cue-based feeding practices with preterm infants.
Eschiti, Valerie	Cancer across the continuum in American Indians of the Southern Plains, including the use of traditional indigenous healing for cancer. Includes focus on the use of navigation for wellness and cancer education, as well as goal-setting; nutrition and cancer; and HPV immunization
Fisher, Mark	Communication (empathic communication), interactions, and relationships between parents, nurses, physicians, and other health care providers in the context of pediatric chronic illness
Hall, Beth	Fall prevention, specifically situation awareness of fall risk in caregivers of community dwelling older adults
Holter, Mary	Nurse role in the delivery of preventive services in primary care settings
Holtzclaw, Barbara	Thermo-regulatory response of vulnerable patients (older adults, dementia, perioperative patients, chronic diseases). Temperature-related sleep disturbances and thermal comfort; Translational Science applications to research: physiologically based interventions
Johnson, Vanessa	Engaging African American, Native Americans, and underserved populations in genomics-related research (CBPR approach); further validation of a biopsychosocial Screening Inventory for FMR1 (BIPSSI-FX) mutation Risks across the Lifespan; spirituality, the Church, and Coping in families in which an individual has a developmental disability; newborn screening for FMR1 gene mutation; Epigenesis and Fragile X Syndrome; managing incidental findings in a genomics age; genetics health literacy; community-based participatory research methods; mentored learning based teaching strategies
Katherine Kirk	Funded by SnOPE (Study Network of Pediatric Endocrinology)
Kupperschmidt, Betty	Addressing retention through Carefronting - different ways of confronting; facilitate and expect students to read, critique, and use research to support their administrative/leadership strategies
Leasure, Renee	Health literacy, symptom management, outcomes, evidence-based practice, ventilator-associated pneumonia of adults cared for at the VA
Loving, Gary	Technology-mediated education, simulation effectiveness, health care informatics, phenomenology and grounded theory approaches, evaluation research
Marfurt, Stephanie	Substance abuse treatment in women; alternative and complementary therapies; breast and cervical cancer detection and prevention; cultural issues related to reproduction cancer detection
Matzo, Marianne	Palliative care; sexual health issues in hospice and palliative care; dyspnea management in late stage disease
McCleary-Jones, Voncella	Health literacy, diabetes mellitus, minority health, administration
Nottingham, Allen	Rural health care and rural nursing practice, empowerment of nurses in practice and education, diffusion of innovation; nursing practice and education
Ogans, Judy	Evidence-based practice, interdisciplinary interventions to prevent child maltreatment, student attitudes towards people with disabilities, evaluating student learning in the clinical setting
Pascucci, Mary Ann	Gerontology - health promotion needs of the oldest old, health literacy/ adherence
Phipps, Su Ann	Non-pregnant women's health and the relationship to prematurity and infant mortality, perinatal risk assessment instrument development; health disparities in women and infant health; diabetes prevention in low income populations, life course perspective
Rogers, Carol	Nexus of activity and activity intolerance, functional mobility, the efficacy of Sign Chi Do exercise in adaptation to aging, and well to frail older adults experiencing chronic illness.
Smith, Patsy	Gero - psych, depressive symptoms, recognition among older African Americans
Weatherby, Francene	Evaluation research - predicting success of first year BSN nursing students, predicting success on NCLEX, follow-up study of the careers of former accelerated BSN graduates, effectiveness of simulators, measures of continued competence for nurses
Wells, Shelly	Workforce issues and policy that dictates workforce issues, economic impact of workforce issues, health care labor issues and workforce needs, health policy development, retention of new RN graduates in inpatient settings
Wilson, Janet	Prevention of child, adult, and older adult victims of violence; use of community-based interdisciplinary teams and technology to gather data, study problems, design innovative, culturally sensitive, and evidence-based solutions
Wisnieski, Deborah	Female adolescent sexuality, women's health issues, planned pregnancies, preventing STDs in adolescent girls, menopausal issues, cultural influences