I am now in my first tenure-track faculty role at D’Youville University in Buffalo, NY. My teaching responsibility includes Adult Health Promotion, Health Assessment, and Adult Clinical Practicum. I worked for four years as a critical care nurse and have subsequently worked for the past 12 years as an acute care nurse practitioner in a mixed medical and neurological ICU.
Research Interests
My long-term research interests are concerned with the development of a comprehensive understanding of end-of-life (EOL) care and the improvement of communication to enhance the quality of EOL in the intensive care unit (ICU). With a PhD in Nursing and specific training and expertise in EOL and critical care, I have completed and published two studies for my dissertation, including a qualitative interview study focusing on exploring family’s experiences with ventilated COVID-19 patients, and a quasi-experiment to test a nurse-led communication intervention among surrogates in the ICU.