Research Areas

• Women's Health
• Chronic and Behavioral Health
• Health Systems and Quality Patient Outcomes
• Strategies for Educating Nurses

Women's Health

Faculty research in women’s health includes focus areas of pregnancy and childbirth, labor support, violence against women, osteoporosis, labor support, relational boundaries in mothers and babies, breastfeeding, premenstrual syndrome, and menopause.

• Arnold, Carol, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Centering Pregnancy in Texas, American Indian Health (Maternal-Child)
• Cesario, Sandra, PhD, RNC, FAAN, Professor, PhD Program Director, 2^nd Stage Labor Management and Newborn Abandonment
• Cho, Michelle, PhD, RN, Professor, Breast Cancer, History of Nursing
• Edwards, Joan, MN, CNS, RNC, Assistant Clinical Professor, Perinatal Nursing, Birth Practices and Beliefs of the Acehnese
• Hawkins, Chris, PhD, RN, Associate Professor Emeritus, Medical-Moral-Legal Issues and Adolescent Pregnancy
• Liu, Fuqin, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Preconception Health and Care, Global Maternal and Child Health, Health Policies
• Malecha, Ann, PhD, RN, CNE, Professor, Intimate Partner Violence
• Mancuso, Peggy, PhD, CNM, RN, Professor, Timing of Birth, Onset and Assessment of Labor
• McFarlane, Judith, DrPH, RN, Parry Chair in Health Promotion, Partner Violence, Biobehavioral and Translational Research
• Montgomery, Diane, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Barriers to STD Testing in High Risk Adolescents
• Restrepo, Elizabeth, PhD, Associate Professor, Perinatal Safety, Cardiovascular Disease in Women, Outcomes Measurement
• Sauls, Donna, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Intrapartum Care, Adolescent Childbirth
• Scott-Tilley, Donna, PhD, Associate Professor, Reducing Health Risks Associated with Intimate Partner Violence
• St. Germain, Ann, MS, RN, ANP, WHNP, Menopause and Osteoporosis
• Stephenson, Charlotte, DSN, RN, Clinical Professor, Perinatal Loss
• Symes, Lene, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Biobehavioral
• Tapler, Deborah, PhD, RN, Professor, Women’s Health Promotion
• Walsh, Teresa, PhD, RNC, Assistant Professor, Reminiscence and Community Dwelling Older Women

Chronic and Behavioral Health

Health and Safety Interventions, Pain Management, Quality of Life, Genetics and Information Sharing, HIV-AIDS

• Asel, Jeane, MS, RN, Assistant Clinical Professor, Obesity
• Binder, Brenda, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Adolescent Health, Obesity, Transaction and Therapeutic Reminiscence with Older Adults
• Chaney, Susan, EdD, FNP, RN, Professor, Family Violence, Diabetes Mellitus, Smoking Cessation
• Foster, Jan, PhD, RN, CNS, CCRN, Assistant Professor, Acute and Critical Care
• Gray, Barbara, PhD, PNP, RN, Resiliency in Children and Adolescents
• Haile, Brenda, DrPH, MPH, RN, ACRN, Associate Professor, HIV/AIDS
• Malecha, Ann, PhD, RN, CNE, Professor, Workplace Violence  
• Montgomery, Diane, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Health Promotion and Prevention in Children and Adolescents and Health Status of Children in Foster Care
• Sheriff, Susan, PhD, RN, Professor, Smoking Cessation, Weekend Nursing Education
• Stephenson, Charlotte, DSN, RN, Clinical Professor, Families with Critically Ill Infants, Death and Dying
• Symes, Lene, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Psychological and Emotional Recovery from Childhood Sexual Assault
• Toms, Robin, PhD, RN, CNAA, BC, Complementary Therapies
• Young, Anne, EdD, RN, Professor, End of Life and Ethical Issues
• Zeigler, Vicki, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Chronic illness in children, Cardiac Rhythm Disorders in Children, Effects of Genetic Disease in Families and Adolescents with Life-Threatening Cardiac Illness

Health Systems and Quality Patient Outcomes

Nurse Staffing, Nurse Satisfaction, Health Policy, Global Health, History of Nursing, Weekend Hospital Risk, Quality of Birth and Death Certificate Data

• Ayers, Constance, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Patient Safety, Nursing History and Florence Nightingale
• Baudler, Barb, MSN, RN, Assistant Clinical Professor, Patient Education
• Benham-Hutchins, Marge, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor, Health and Nursing Informatics, Health Systems, Multiprofessional Communication, Patient Handoff, Social Network Analysis, Complexity Science
• Cesario, Sandra, PhD, RNC, FAAN, Professor and PhD Program Director, Design of Healthcare Environments
• DelloStritto, Rita, PhD, RN, CNS, ENP, Assistant Professor, Emergency Care Outcomes and Disaster Management
• Haile, Brenda, DrPH, MPH, RN, BC, Associate Professor, Qualitative Research
• Krepper, Rebecca, PhD, MBA, RN, Professor, Staffing Methodologies and Program Evaluation
• Langford, Rae, EdD, RN, Associate Professor, Research Process and Statistical Analysis
• Landrum, Peggy, PhD, RN, Associate Clinical Professor, Nurse Recruitment and Retention-Incentives
• McFarlane, Judith, DrPH, RN, Parry Chair in Health Promotion, Access Redesign
• Symes, Lene, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Retention of Registered Nurses
• Toms, Robin, PhD, RN, CNAA, BC, Nursing Administration

Strategies for Educating Nurses

Student Retention, HESI Exam Predictive Validity, Educational Simulations, Web-Based Learning, computerized Testing, Effective Mentoring, Length of Clinical Rotations, International Student Exchange

• Bailey, Catherine, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Simulation of Clinical Lab Skills, Nursing Education
• Binder, Brenda, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Stress and Nursing Students and Reliability and Validation of NP HESI  
• Byrd, Gloria, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Nursing Student Success
• Cesario, Sandra, PhD, RNC, FAAN, Professor and PhD Program Director, Stress and Nursing Students
• DelloStritto, Rita, PhD, RN, CNS, ENP, Assistant Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• Foster, Jan, PhD, RN, CNS, CCRN, Assistant Professor, Nursing Education
• Haile, Brenda, DrPH, MPH, RN, BC, Associate Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• Hawkins, Chris, PhD, RN, Associate Professor Emeritus, Mentoring Faculty and Students
• Henderson, Betty, MN, RN, Assistant Professor, Academic Achievement of Disadvantaged Students and Stressors and Student Nurse Success
• Hueske, Cathy, PhD, MS, RN, CNS, P/MH, FNP, Associate Clinical Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• Landrum, Peggy, PhD, RN, Associate Clinical Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• Malecha, Ann, PhD, RN, CNE, Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• Montgomery, Diane, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• Newsom, Teri, MS, RN, ANP-C, Nursing Education
• Schultz, Rochelle, MSN, CPNP, Assistant Clinical Professor, High Risk Students
• St. Germain, Ann, MS, RN, ANP, WHNP, Stress and Nursing Students
• Symes, Lene, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• VanSell, Sharon, EdD, RN, Professor, Simulation in Nursing Education, Pneumatics Medical Imaging
• Walsh, Teresa, PhD, RNC, Assistant Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• Young, Anne, EdD, RN, Professor, Stress and Nursing Students and HESI Testing