Expertise

Keywords: Adult Health Nursing; Community/Mental Health Nursing

Research Interests

  • Academic-practice partnerships geared to enhance advanced nursing education and practice
  • Competency gaps in preceptor preparedness and nurse practitioner students’ readiness to practice in medically underserved areas
  • Cultural competencies in healthcare education
  • Cultural congruent care for people of diverse or similar cultures
  • Health and wellness of adults and adolescents with obesity
  • Healthy lifestyle interventions for adults with metabolic syndrome
  • Health promotion in the workplace for improving employee productivity
Affiliations
Communities
Nursing
Degrees
DNP, University of South Alabama, Family Nurse Practitioner, 2014
MSN, University of South Alabama, 1997
BSN, University of South Alabama, 1993