Program of Research:
Maternal Posture and Fetal Position/Presentation; Frontier Nursing Service: Practice Outcome Analysis
Research Projects:
Nurse-Midwifery at the Frontier Nursing Service (1925-1987): Historical, Longitudinal, and Practice Outcome Analysis.
Maternal Postures Strengthened by Physics Theory to Correct Fetal Malposition/Malpresentation Training Projects: Core Faculty, "Childbearing, Childrearing, Caregiving Research Training," May Wykle, National Institute of Nursing Research, 1999-2005. Founder of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing Nurse Midwifery Program and Project Director for Nurse Midwifery and Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Training Programs (4 federally funded). Pioneer for CNEP (Community Based Nurse Midwifery Education Program), the 1st Distance Nurse Midwifery Educational Program. Project Director, "Strengthening and Expanding Nursing Services and Starting the 1st BScN in Nurse Midwifery in Uganda," Rockefeller funded. Education Interests: Nurse Midwifery; Research; and Underserved Populations/International Health Educational Background: BSN, Nursing, St. John College, Cleveland, OH MS, Maternal Newborn Nursing (Nurse-Midwifery), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT PhD, Nursing, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI |