Research
Research efforts among faculty include the areas of:- Health promotion, gerontology, culturally competent care and women’s health
- Health promotion research encompasses a broad range of selected areas, including pediatric HIV, cardiovascular health, violence, breast cancer, exercise and health disparities among health care workers
Faculty are involved as co-directors/researchers with several of the research centers on campus:
NURSING FACULTY AREAS OF RESEARCH
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Outcomes of geriatric nurse practitioners; DRINC Project (Dehydration Reduction in Nursing Home Residents by Caregivers) | |
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Racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes, adolescent pregnancy, life course models of care, continuity of care, contextual factors and their relationship to birth outcomes | |
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Child health, stress and coping, and humor; Bring Diversity to Nursing (BDN) Pre-entry recruitment, retention, and mentor-mentee relationships; Human simulation technology integration in nursing education | |
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End-stage renal disease and diabetes among American Indians/Alaska Natives, dialysis outcomes, immunization compliance, wound care, and health promotion | |
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Health behaviors among older adults including physical activity; cultural differences in health behaviors of older adults (phenomenological method); Alzheimer’s research; dementia and wandering; nursing historical research including the Lowell Nursing Archives; DRINC project |
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Social gerontology, more specifically late life intergenerational relationships, intergenerational programs, social support, caregiving, and mental health of older adults; Long-term care; Global aging and health | |
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Family care-giving of functionally impaired elders; Interventions to support family caregivers; Family care-giving in the Cambodian community; health promotion in older adults; prevention of age-related macular degeneration; strategies to promote active living in the older adult | |
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International service learning experiences and nursing students, qualitative research | |
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Negative effects of psychotropic medication; nursing interventions for acute psychiatric inpatients; mental health problems in older adults (anxiety, dementia, delirium, depression); impact of mental health problems on functional outcomes (IADL’s, ADL’s); influence of depressive symptoms, low mood and anxiety on health outcomes (pain, respiratory status, illness or surgical recovery etc.) | |
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Health promotion behavior across the lifespan; health disparities; occupational health and safety adaptation to chronic illness; pediatric HIV infection; epidemiology; qualitative and quantitative methodologies | |
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Cardiac/implanted cardiac defibrillators sudden cardiac arrest in young adults/pediatrics; psycho/social issues in young adult cardiac patients, qualitative and mixed methods | |
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Investigating alternative primary care models for the aged from Medicare data; Development and pilot testing of a transitional care dedicated education unit; DNPs caring for the underserved in Massachusetts after health care reform; Physical activity and exercise among older adults; Gerontological nurse practitioner intervention outcomes research; promoting healthy and safe employment in healthcare PHASE project case study team co-coordinator and long term care team leader; DRINC project - Dehydration Reduction in Community-dwelling Older Adults; Bring Diversity to Nursing - pre-entry recruitment and retention of minority and economically disadvantaged students; Human Simulation Technology integration in nursing education (Sim-Man) | |
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Substance abuse and pain management - nursing staff interactions; pain prevalence among the chronically mental ill; health behaviors in those with chronic illness, End of life care/psychosocial issues in HIV; Palliative care in HIV and mental illness | |
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Behavioral sleep medicine, sleep and women's Health; Sleep dysregulation in psychiatric disease | |
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Health behaviors including self-efficacy and social support during life transitions; perimenopausal health self-efficacy; cultural interpretations of illness using Kleinman's explanatory model; pediatric overweight; parenting | |
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Nutritional supplements and cognitive decline in older adults with and without dementia; Palliative care and serious mental illness; Non-pharmacological interventions to reduce agitation in dementia; Models of primary care delivery; Symptom management in dementia | |
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Horizontal (lateral) violence, workplace bullying, workplace retention; enteral feeding; critical thinking in nursing education; pre-entry recruitment and retention of minority and economically disadvantaged students | |
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Use of community-based participatory research methods to develop and test peer reminiscence interventions to decrease depressive symptoms in older Black adults. Investigating the effects of the CARELINK Model of Care on older adult health outcomes and student cultural self-efficacy in caring for older adults | |
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Role of DNR in ICU settings, health promotion | |
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Technology and the effect it has on nursing medication errors; Simulation | |
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Health Promotion |
NOTE: Additional research interests of specific faculty can be found on the Nursing faculty webpage.
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