Faculty Research Interests

• Research Interests: Childbearing and the transition to parenthood; teen pregnancy prevention

Willa Fields, DNSc, RN

• Research Interests: Patient care quality and safety with a focus on technology and evidence-based practice.
  
• Current Projects: Implementation of Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) Systems and their Effect on Medication Safety Events and Nursing Practice. Nursing student and faculty knowledge, attitudes, practice and perceived barriers to learning and teaching evidence-based practice.

Diane Hatton, DNSc, RN

• Research Interests: Health and healthcare access among vulnerable populations, including women prisoners and impoverished families; community based participatory research
  
• Current Project: Exploring Parental Responses to Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in their Children.

Lauren P. Hunter, PhD, CNM

• Research Interests: Evidence based nurse midwifery care; midwifery presence; sleep in pregnancy; fear of childbirth; phenomenological hermeneutical research.

Lauren Jones, PhD, RN

• Research Interests: Decreasing "clipboard mentality" among nurses; development of relaxation interventions.

Linda Robinson, PhD, RN

• Research Interests: Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR); Infectious disease including HIV/AIDS and MRSA.
  
• Current Project: Exploring Parental Responses to Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in their Children

Janynelle Stichler, DNSc, RN, FAAN, FACHE

• Research Interests: Nursing work environments (leadership and facility), evidence-based practice in healthcare leadership and facility design
  
• Current Projects: Faculty knowledge, attitudes, practice and barriers to teaching evidence-based practice; The relationship among evidence-based practice, collaborative behaviors and the professional practice environment; Understanding Nurse Manager Workplace Stress; Safe Patient Mobilization to Prevent Employee Injury Transition to Practice: A Study of the New Graduate Nurse Experience; The Effect of the Built Environment on Organizational Metrics and Patient, Provider and Physician Experience

Diane Thomason, PhD, MN, RN

• Research Interests: Prevention of adolescent obesity; instrument development; school health policy at local and state levels; and cultural competency for nurses in the workplace.
  
• Current Project: Adolescent Perceptions to Physical Education Activities: Psychometric Testing of The Physical Education Activities Scale (PEAS)

Catherine Todero, PhD, RN

• Research Interests: Circadian rhythm as it relates to sleep, fatigue, shift work and chronic disease. Symptom Management.

last updated: 1/16/09