- Health Care Consumers' Acceptance of Information and Communication Technology
- Community-based Participatory Research
- School-based Interactive Weight Management Program
- Tele-monitoring for Elder/Chronic Care
- Life Satisfaction and Associated Factors among Korean Elder Women
Robert Atkins, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor
- Effect of stress in the home and neighborhood environment on personality development in children
- Factors contributing to the developoment of civic and moral identify in children and youth
Judith Barberio, PhD, RN, APN,C, ANP, GNP, FNP, SNC, Clinical Assistant Professor
- Predictors of well-being in chronic illness
- Nurse-managed health centers quality outcomes
- High risk populations and lead screening
- Advance practice policy issues and barriers to practice
Claudia Beckmann, PhD, RN, Associate Professor
- Women's health issues
- The impact of pregnancy on asthma
Anne Brandes, EdD, MSN, RN, Assistant Professor
- Adult education
- Classroom environment characteristics that influence student success
- Effect of exposure to a healthy life styles program on the health of children
- Health promotion across the lifespan
Karen D'Alonzo, PhD, RN, APNC, Assistant Professor
- Health promotion needs of women across the lifespan
- Exercise/physical activity
- Health promotion needs of minority women
Geri Dickson, PhD, RN, Executive Director, NJ Collaborating Center for Nursing
- Qualitative research
- Health policy issues that impact the nursing shortage
- Nursing workforce issues
Linda Flynn, PhD, RN, BC, Assistant Professor and Director of Research, NJ Collaborating Center for Nursing
- The effect of organizational climate and work environment on nurse and patient outcomes in home health care setting
- Nursing workforce issues
- Community-based outcomes research with emphasis on adolescent pregnancy and parenting
Elsie E. Gulick, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor Emerita
- Health promotion in persons with multiple sclerosis and their families
- Effects of breastfeeding on the decreased incidence of exacerbation of symptoms in mothers with multiple sclerosis
Lucille A. Joel, EdD, RN, FAAN, Professor
- Economics and the delivery of health care
- Public policy
- Career mobility and practice autonomy with a focus on the role of the advanced practice nurse
Rachel Jones, PhD, RN, AssociateProfessor
- Sexual pressure, partner trust, and women?s HIV sexual risk behaviors
- Instrument development and multicultural relevance
- Audio computer assisted self-interview
- The use of technology for health promotion in urban communities
Felissa R. Lashley, PhD, RN, ACRN, FAAN, FACMG, Professor Emeritus
- Medical genetics
- Infectious disease
- HIV/AIDS care
- Nursing education
Elise Lev, EdD, RN, CS, Associate Professor
- Psychological oncology: a self-efficacy in women with breast cancer
- Quality of life in men receiving treatment for prostate cancer
- Quality of life of survivors of cervical cancer
Ganga Mahat, EdD, RNBC, Clinical Associate Professor
- School-age children's fears and coping strategies related to medical experiences
- Factors influencing positive health practices of adolescents
- Adolescents' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of HIV/AIDS
Noreen Mahon, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor
- Health promotion in healthy adolescents, including developmental concerns, loneliness, future time perspective, positive health practices and perceived health status.
Marlene Rankin, PhD, RN, Clinical Associate Professor
- Body image
- Human appearance
- Insurance reimbursement after facial trauma
- Quality of life after surgery
Jeanne Ruggiero, PhD, RN, CNS,C, Assistant Professor
- Sleep, fatigue and depression in shift workers
- Psychomotor vigilance testing in shift workers
Mary Ann Scoloveno, EdD, RN, Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Associate Professor
- Adolescent hopefulness
- Social support and ego development in adolescents
- Medical fears in school-age Nepalese children
- Children's fears and coping strategies
- HIV/AIDS knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes of adolescents
- Positive health practices of adolescents
Joanne S. Stevenson, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor Emerita
- Health promotion and optimal functioning in middle-aged and older women, including exercise and strength training
- Prevention/case finding and recovery from chemical (drug and alcohol) and food abuse/dependency among middle-aged and older women
Charlotte Thomas-Hawkins, PhD, RN, Associate Professor
- Illness representations, symptom distress, and functioning in individuals with chronic renal failure
- The development and testing of tailored psycho-educational interventions to alter illness misrepresentations and improve level of participation in activities of daily living in individuals with chronic renal failure
Beverly Whipple, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor Emerita
- Women's health issues
- The physiology of female sexual response and the effect of vaginal self-stimulation on pain thresholds
Adela M. Yarcheski, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor
- Adolescent health issues and health promotion with regard to such variables as anger, depression, positive health practices
- Health outcomes in adults with cardiac problems
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