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Dorothy G. Foote, PhD, APRN, BC
Assistant Professor

College of Nursing, NB 309
256-824-2439
footed@.uah.edu
Dorothy G. Foote
 

Clinical Expertise:

  • Family Nurse Practitioner
  • Gerontological Nurse Practitioner
  • Leadership Styles

Research Interests:

  • Community Health screening needs
  • Leadership styles of Long-Term Care Nursing Administrators/education levels
  • Teaching leadership to Advance Practice Nurses

Special Achievements/Honors/Awards:

  • Who's Who in Education 2007
  • ELNEC Graduate Curriculum Excellence Award
  • Who's Who in American Women 2007

Current Teaching Responsibilities:

  • NUR 613 - FNP IV: Health Care through the lifespan.
  • NUR 334/534 & NUR 650 (Web Courses) Death & Dying
  • NUR 500 Global Health: International Study

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  • Unpublished Manuscript: Self-Perception of Leadership Styles of Long Term Care Nursing Administrator/Directors of Nursing and Education Levels.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
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