Becky Keele, Ph.D., PHCNS-BC

Contact

rkeele@twu.edu
940-898-2456
ASB 126

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Biography

Dr. Keele is a clinical nurse specialist in public health nursing. She has over 40 years of clinical, research, and education experience. Her clinical expertise includes working with vulnerable populations such as the homeless and Hispanic populations living in underserved Colonia populations living along the US-Mexico border. Her program of research centers on promoting physical activity and healthy eating with diverse populations including nurses and Mexican Americans living with diabetes. She has garnered external funding to develop the infrastructure needed to pursue comparative effectiveness research with the Mexican American population living in Southern NM Border Region. With her experience in instrument development, she developed the Exercise Motivation Questionnaire-Mexican American (EMQ-MA) that she uses in developing a tailored physical activity prescription for this population. Dr. Keele also authored a research book entitled Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice: Ten Steps to Success that has been used by many schools of nursing across the country.

Education

Ph.D., University of Kansas
Graduate Certificate, Family Nurse Practitioner, University of Texas at Arlington
M.S.N., Nursing, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS
B.S.N., Nursing, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas

Expertise

Instrument Development; Physical Activity; Healthy Eating; Mexican American Populations; Health Disparities; Underserved Populations; Reversal Theory; Health Promotion; Disease Prevention; Population Health

Latest Articles

Development and validation of an instrument to measure barriers to surgical conscience action in perioperative nurses.
Journal of Nursing Measurement (2024)
Danielle Quintana, Rebecca Keele, Nina Fredland , Jennifer Woo

An integrative review of the perinatal experiences of black women
Nursing for Women's Health (2022)
Laura Murphy, Fuqin Liu, Rebecca Keele, Becky Spencer, Kathleen Ellis

Development and validation of the mirror image comfort and avoidance scale (MICAS)
Disability and Rehabilitation (2021)
W. Freysteinson, Rebecca Keele, P. Yeatts, D. Douglas, K. Reeves

Contraception Among Women on Probation and Parole on the United States-Mexico Border
Public Health Nursing (2020)
Rebecca Keele

Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Nurses' Beliefs toward Deaf and Hard of Hearing Interaction
Journal of Nursing Measurement (2019)
Audra Lewis, Rebecca Keele

To Role Model or Not? Nurses Challenges in Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
Workplace Health and Safety (2019)
Rebecca Keele

Relationship of Tympanic and Temporal Temperature Modalities to Core Temperature in Pediatric Surgical Patients
AANA (2017)
Debra Minzola, Rebecca Keele

Cervical Cancer Screening Practices of Volunteer Health Care Providers in Faith-Based Clinics
The Journal for Nurse Practitioners (2016)
Vicki Denson, R Keele

Recent Presentations

Overview of PhD Curriculum
TWU PhD Colloquium (2019)
Paper | Rebecca Keele

Electives Overview
TWU PhD Colloquium (2019)
Paper | Rebecca Keele

Instrument Development: An Overview
TWU PhD Colloquium (2019)
Paper | Rebecca Keele

Electives Overview
TWU PhD Colloquium (2018)
Paper | Rebecca Keele

Overview of PhD Curriculum
TWU PhD Colloquium (2018)
Paper | Rebecca Keele

Physical Activity Counseling with Diabetic Patients Living Along the US-Mexico Border
Lighting Talks (2018)
Paper | Rebecca Keele

Promoting Physical Activity in the Southern NM Border Region: Summary of Work Done Thus Far MUSE Presentation TWU CON
MUSE (2017)
Paper | Rebecca Keele

Promoting Physical Activity in Preschool Age Children with Family Caregivers
NM-INBRE Annual Symposium (2015)
Poster | Rebecca Keele

PCORI Funding Panel Discussion Member
Second Annual Mountain West CTR-IN Conference (2015)
Round Table | Rebecca Keele

Professional Affiliations

• Phi Kappa Phi
• Sigma Theta Tau

Honors & Awards

• Selected as one of the "Dallas-Fort Worth Great 100 Nurses" for 2022, Dallas-Fort Worth Great 100 organization (2022)
• D Magazine's 2021 Excellence in Nursing honorees, Dallas Magazine (2021)
• Awarded Tenure, Texas Woman's University (2020)
• PCORI Research Summaries Reviewer, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Translation Center (2017)
• PCORI National Ambassador, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) (2017)
• Initial Appointment to Full Graduate Faculty Status, Texas Woman's University (2016)