Clinical Expertise:

• Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
• Certified Gerontological Nurse Practitioner
• Certified End of Life Trainer

Research Interests:

• Leadership Styles
• Teaching Strategies
• Palliative Care

Special Achievements/Honors/Awards:

• UAH Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award, 2009
• Excellence Award in EOL Education, ANCC
• Whos Who in America
• International Nursing Education Program

Current Teaching Responsibilities:

• Health Care Through the Lifespan for Graduates and Post-Masters Students in FNP program
• Global Health: International Study - Comparing Health Care Systems Abroad
• Death & Dying at the Graduate and Undergraduate level
• Curriculum Development in the Teaching Certificate Program

Education:

• PhD, Mississippi State University
• MSN, University of Alabama in Huntsville
• BSN, University of North Alabama

Scholarly Activities:

Publications over past five years:

• The Leadership Styles of Long-Term Care Nursing administrators in relationship to Educational Levels (Dissertation)
• Unpublished Manuscript: Self-Perception of Leadership Styles of Long Term Care Nursing Administrator/Directors of Nursing and Education Levels.

Scholarly Endeavors:

• Text Manuscript Reviewer: US Health Care System, Thomson Publishers, March, 2007
• Research Poster: Teaching Advanced Practice Nurses Leadership and Organization Skills, AANC, Albuquerque, NM, February, 2007.
• Research Poster: Family Caregivers Coping with Advanced Stage Lung Cancer, AAPPM/HPNA, Salt Lake City, UT, February, 2007.
• Scholarly Presentation: Assessing the Elderly. Parish Nursing Symposium, March, 2006.
• Scholarly Presentation: Assessing Women and Heart Disease. UAH Women's Club, March, 2006.
• Research Poster: Leadership and Organization Skills for Health Promotion. Southern Nurses Research Society, Annual Symposium, February, 2006, Memphis, TN.
• Research Poster: Physical Function Barriers to Diabetes Self-Management in the older Adult Population. Presented at Sigma Theta Tau International 38th Biennial Convention. November, 2006, Indianapolis, IN.

Research in progress:

• Leadership styles of APN students
• Global Health Awareness of College Students
• College Health Screening: Faculty, Staff, and Students Needs

Other Activities:

• Wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother