Joanne S. Stevenson

PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emerita

Mail:

Rutgers, The State University of NJ
College of Nursing
Ackerson Hall, Room 102
180 University Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102-1897

Office:

Office Hours: By Appointment
Fax: (973) 353-1277
Email: stevenso@rutgers.edu

Education:

Ph.D.: Ohio State University (Education; Biostatistics)
M.S.: Ohio State University (Nursing, Med-Surg; Minor - Counseling)
B.S.: Ohio State University (Nursing)

Research and Clinical Interests:

• Prevention & Health Promotion; Research Consistently Funded 1972-present
• Healthy Aging
• Functional Independence of Older Women- Exercise Studies
• Women and Alcohol Abuse/Addiction and Physical Concomittants of Chronic Alcohol Ingestion.
• Gerontology/Geriatrics and Older Women's Health

Professional and Community Activities:

• Past President Midwest Nursing Research Society
• Past Chair, Research Committee, Sigma Theta Tau International
• Past President, Board of Trustees, Friendship Village of Columbus, Ohio
• Study Section, Memberships:
  • Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
  • National Institute on Aging
  • National Center for Nursing Research
  • NIH Division of Research Resources

Recent Publications:

• Stevenson, J.S. (in press, due 2000). Health Promoting Behaviors. In Meridean Maas, et al (Eds.). Nursing Diagnoses and Interventions for the Elderly. 2nd Edition. Stilmis, MO: Mosby.
• Stevenson, J.S. (1997). Health promotion for chronically ill elders. In E.A. Swanson & T. Tripp-Reimer (Eds.). Advances in Gerontological Nursing 2, (pp. 31-61). New York: Springer.
• Timmerman, G. & Stevenson, J.S. (1996). The relationship between binge eating severity and body fat in nonpurge binge eating women. Research in Nursing and Health, 19, 389-398.
• Topp, R. & Stevenson, J.S. (1994). The effects of attendance and effort on outcomes among older adults in a long-term exercise program. Research in Nursing and Health, 17, 15-24.
• Issues and Crises During Middlescence New York: Appleton-Century- Crofts, 1977 (AJN book of the year, 1978).
• Co-editor of 3 volumes of the Annual Review of Nursing Research, Springer Publishing Co. (AJN Books of the Year 1994, 1996)
• Co-editor, International Nursing Research: State of the Science; won AJN Book of the Year in 1995.

Refereed articles published in the following:

• Nursing Research
• Research in Nursing and Health
• Heart & Lung
• Clinical Research
• Annual Review of Nursing Research (Vol. 1 & Vol. 10)
• Nursing Outlook
• Journal of Nursing Administration
• Journal of Gerontological Nursing
• Geriatric Nursing: American Journal of Care for the Aged
• Advances in Nursing Science
• Nursing Forum
• Journal of Professional Nursing
• National Forum