Katherine Rosa, PhD, APRN, BC

Dr. Katherine Rosa is a certified family nurse practitioner from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Her clinical experiences include occupational health, family practice in inner city and suburban office settings, and integrating the healing modality, Therapeutic Touch, into a traditional family practice. Currently, she is an assistant professor teaching both didactic and practicum family nursing courses as well as senior BSN role transition practicum.

Dr. Rosa is a certified Qualified Therapeutic Touch Practitioner, Mentor, and Teacher from Nurse Healers-Professional Associates International. Since 1992, she has studied annually with Dr. Dolores Krieger and Dora Kunz at the Northeast Advanced Invitational Workshop on Therapeutic Touch. She has maintained a private practice offering TT to ill individuals and their family members; teaching beginner, intermediate, and advanced workshops; and mentoring TT practitioners. 

Her scholarly experiences include Boston College University Fellowship Program which funded her doctoral education and provided multiple research assistant experiences. Funding from Sigma Theta Tau International Alpha Chi Chapter supported her doctoral thesis, "Research as praxis: Health as expanding consciousness and persons living with lower extremity chronic skin wounds." Summer research funding from the University of Massachusetts Lowell supports ongoing research comparing chronic wound healing rates in persons receiving usual wound care versus those receiving an additional advanced practice nursing invention. She has presented her research findings at both national and international conferences.

Publications:

Rosa, K. (2005). Dialogue of Newman scholars and others interested in HEC. In C. Picard & D. Jones (Eds.), Giving voice to what we know: Margaret Newman's theory of health as expanding consciousness in nursing practice, research and education (pp. 213-218). Boston: Jones and Bartlett.

Smith, D. W., Arnstein, P., Rosa, K. C., & Wells-Federman, C. (2002). Effects of integrating therapeutic touch into a cognitive behavioral pain treatment program. Journal of Holistic Nursing, 20, 367-387.