Decker Nursing Faculty

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Karen Browne, MS, RN, CWOCN

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Ostomy/wound education for undergraduate nursing students
  • Online education for undergraduate nursing programs
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Mi Jin Doe, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC

Clinical Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Parsesciencing
  • Qualitative study with universal humanuniverse living experiences
  • Mental health
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Pamela Stewart Fahs, PhD, RN, FAAN

Associate Dean/Prof./Decker Chair Rural Nsg.

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Cardiovascular risk reduction
  • Rural populations
  • Knowledge of cardiovascular risks
  • Heart attack and stroke in rural women
  • Rural nursing theory
  • Roy Adaptation model
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Ann E. Fronczek, PhD, RN

Associate Professor and Director UG and PhD Programs

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Telehealth and mHealth
  • King's Dynamic Interacting Systems Framework and Theory of Goal Attainment
  • Nursing workforce development: telehealth
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Debra J. Gates , DNP, NP-C, CDCES, CDTC

Clinical Assistant Professor/Coordinator, Adult-Gerontological Nursing Program

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Diabetes prevention, care and education
  • Diabetes and technology
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Susan Glodstein, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC

Program Coordinator of Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Suicide prevention
  • Attitudes towards suicide
  • Language promoting mental health
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Thet Su Htwe

Visiting Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Community health
  • Cultural sensitivity in healthcare and health promotion
  • Human rights
  • Violence against women
  • Gender equity and equality
  • Sexual harassment
  • Conflict-related sexual violence
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Samantha Lewis , PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Personality disorders
  • Trauma
  • Human trafficking
  • Developmental disabilities (particularly intellectual disabilities and autism)
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Matthew M. Lunn, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Use of force
  • Policy and program evaluation
  • Crisis leadership
  • Qualitative research
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Mario R. Ortiz, PhD, RN, PHCNS-BC, FNP-C, FNAP, FAAN

Dean; Professor; Decker Endowed Chair in Community Health Nursing

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Qualitative research
  • Living experiences of health
  • Nursing theory-guided research
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Rosemarie Rizzo Parse, PhD, RN, FAAN

Visiting Scholar and Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Sciencing as coming to know
  • Parsesciencing
  • Qualitative research with universal humanuniverse living experiences
  • Investigative phenomena: dignity, reverence, awe, betrayal, shame
  • Community change concepts
  • Teaching-learning and leading-following
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Nicole A. Rouhana, PhD, FACNM, FNP-BC

Associate Professor/ Director of Graduate Programs

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • HPV vaccinations
  • Interprofessional education
  • Supporting international graduate nursing students
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Lori-Marie Sprague, PhD, RN, CHSE

Assistant Director of Innovative Simulation and Practice/ Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Tobacco research and education
  • The effectiveness of simulation on student perceptions, empathy and knowledge
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Lavon Williams, DNP, MSN, RN-BC, PMHNP-BC, GNP-BC

Clinical Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Mental health issues
  • Palliative care/end-of-life care
  • Home care for the elderly population
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