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Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences pursues research in a wide range of areas consistent with its mission to prepare future leaders in healthcare and healthcare research. Faculty and student researchers investigate problems, uncover new knowledge and collaborate with colleagues worldwide. 

Faculty members' current research streams include:

Reethee Anthony

• How do our brains process native and non-native speech sounds
• Perceptual advantage in team sports players
• EEG and AI: An intersection of health sciences with engineering and computer science to promote quality of life

Jane Bear-Lehman

• Approaches to screening and assessment in geriatrics
• Biomechanics of the wrist and hand

Karen Browne

• Effects of an emotional intelligence and empathy interactive education program with prelicensure nursing students
• Adhesive-free, stretchable and permeable multiplex wound care platform
• Skin failure or pressure injury: A deep dive into the etiology of skin failure in critical care patients

Sharon Bryant

• How inclusive is the art in ��ñ�� public spaces
• CSTEP’s role in shaping career pathways of undergraduate students
• Using womanism as a framework to guide my poetry’s examination of standpoint

Michael Buck

• Psychological flexibility as a mediator in the relationship between resilience and academic burnout among healthcare students

Jason Cherry

• Psychological flexibility and perceived stress in doctor of physical therapy students
• Resilience and academic burnout among health sciences students
• Maintaining the early intervention workforce
• Psychological flexibility as a mediator in the relationship between resilience and academic burnout among healthcare students

Rosemary Collier

• Disaster preparedness through simulation
• Fostering empathy in healthcare students using virtual reality
• Development and testing of a perinatal tobacco attitudes and behaviors survey

Nannette Cowen

• Effects of Rock Steady Boxing training delivered through telerehabilitation on motor and nonmotor components of Parkinson’s disease
• Physical activity recommendations should be person-centered and therapeutic
• The impact of a self-care program for nursing students’ perceived stress, burnout and retention in the first year of practice

Rosa Darling

• Improving asthma outcomes in children
• Addressing the shortage of public health professionals through research and engagement
• Development of the Pediatric Well-being Picture Scale

Cody Dew

• Navigating stigma and discrimination of stuttering in the labor force
• Investigating the feasibility of virtual reality in clinical stuttering therapy
• How perceived communication skills needed for careers influence vocational stereotyping of people who stutter

Ann Fronczek

• Nursing theory can support virtual care options
• Mobile clinic designs for the future
• Intersecting the art and science of nursing for future healthcare systems

Rodney Gabel

• Openness and disclosure of stuttering unlock the door to self-acceptance and belonging
• Improving therapeutic outcomes for people who stutter by developing individualized clinical programming
• Improving dissemination of evidence-based practices in stuttering therapy with graduate students and practicing clinicians
• How perceived communication skills needed for careers influence vocational stereotyping of people who stutter
• Investigating the feasibility of virtual reality in clinical stuttering therapy
• Navigating stigma and discrimination of stuttering in the labor force

Joshua Garrett

• Mitogen-activated protein kinases involved in sustained loss of endothelial barrier function induced by tumor necrosis factor alpha
• The role of the p120 VE-cadherin interaction in regulating endothelial barrier function
• Comparison of paired and unpaired antagonistic muscle group exercises on strength and endurance

Susan Glodstein

• Advanced practice registered nurses’ attitudes toward suicide
• The Lifeline and advanced practice nursing intervention prevention perspective
• Mental wellness-focused language promotes acceptance, hope and respect

Yvonne Johnston

• Implementing fall risk screening and prevention strategies among older adults in primary care can reduce fall-related hospitalizations
• Grocery stores are an ideal location for promoting improved nutrition in neighborhoods
• Having a sufficient number of faculty is critical for the education of new nurses and the future of nursing

Jolene Kittle

• Healthcare providers’ lived experience caring for victims of youth violence separated from family during trauma resuscitation

Amy Lorino

• Occupational experiences of medication management among adults living with multiple chronic conditions
• Practical solutions for inclusive pedagogy in occupational therapy curriculum

Vipul Lugade

• Smartphone delivery of balance intervention
• Multiple subconcussive blows reduce motor and cognitive performance in young athletes
• Individualized feedback can improve healthcare access and understanding

Miesha Marzell

• Trends of youth marijuana treatment admissions: increasing admissions contrasted with decreasing drug involvement
• Examining repeated admission in substance use treatment
• Harmonizing harm reduction: uniting varied perspectives for enhanced social work practice

Wendy Moore

• Qualitative analysis of evidence-based testing practices in baccalaureate nursing education
• Effects of clinical immersion on readiness for nursing practice
• The relationship between faculty diversity and workplace civility in nursing education

Matthew Murphy

• Clinical faculty member new to academia: focused on the development of teaching and still finding his scholarly path
• Discussion of the possible investigation into lack of hip extension and excessive translation in the frontal plane during ambulation as it relates to low back pain
• Discussion of the possible use of post-assessment student reflection data to help identify gaps in metacognition and how that relates to gaps in the planning phase of learning and ultimate readiness       

Suzanne O’Brien

• Exploration of the impact of clinical context on clinical reasoning in physical therapy
• The utility of community-based gait speed outcome measures and cut-offs for stroke
• Quality of life and function in patients with chronic stroke receiving physical therapy in a student-run pro-bono clinic
• Smartphone- and paper-based delivery of balance intervention for older adults are equally effective, enjoyable and of high fidelity

Mario Ortiz

• High-quality patient-centered care policies should be built on nursing theories
• Patient engagement = nursing policies + practices x Humanbecoming
• “Living of work” is personal, professional and organizational, all at once

Alyson Pasquale

• OT students learn evidence-based pain management concepts to improve knowledge and practical skills
• Practical solutions for inclusive pedagogy in occupational therapy curriculum

Judith Quaranta

• Improving asthma outcomes in children
• Addressing the shortage of public health professionals through research and engagement
• Development of the Pediatric Well-being Picture Scale

Joyce Rhodes-Keefe

• Development and testing of a perinatal tobacco attitudes and behaviors survey
• Development and feasibility of an empathy virtual reality scenario in healthcare education
• Disaster preparedness through simulation training

Patima Silsupadol

• Fall interventions for community-dwelling older adults
• Transforming the smartphone into a user-friendly portable gait monitoring system
• Home-based smartphone-delivered interventions

Gurpreet Singh

• Effects of Rock Steady Boxing training delivered through telerehabilitation on motor and nonmotor components of Parkinson’s disease
• Balance training in individuals with Parkinson’s disease
• Psychological flexibility as a mediator in the relationship between resilience and academic burnout among healthcare students

Lori Sprague

• The effectiveness of fetal effect educational video on pregnant women’s knowledge and self-efficacy related to tobacco use
• Development and feasibility of an empathy virtual reality scenario in healthcare education
• Impact of palliative and end-of-life care simulation and nursing students’ experiences during a disaster evacuation simulation

Jodi Sutherland

• Supporting nurses and their duty to care to achieve a healthy nursing workforce
• Preparing future nurses to utilize electronic health records in nursing practice
• Preparing future nurses to practice in the home care setting

Nicholas Terela

• Psychological flexibility and acute stress during nursing simulation
• Disaster preparedness: a tabletop simulation
• A concept analysis of resilience using Roy’s adaptation model

Sundeep Venkatesan

• Dysphagia management by nurses: a nationwide content analysis of licensure and certification requirements
• Nurses role in audiology and speech-language pathology
• Content analysis of dysphagia and aspiration pneumonia