Nursing is a field that has grown exponentially with the changes
in health care delivery systems, technology, and medical treatments.
Through their research, nurses report from the frontlines of health
care, identifying critical areas of need.



Recent departmental research at UNH has examined hospital discharge
practices, how to promote nonsmoking among adolescents, and ways
of garnering community support for patients with Alzheimer’s
Disease. Nursing research is wide-ranging and encompasses the methodologies
of both social and medical science research.



Here is a partial listing of departmental research interests:

Women’s health issues

• Breastfeeding
• Adolescent pregnancy and parenting
• Decision making as regards use or non-use of hormone replacement
  therapy

Primary care

• Infection control

Psychiatric nursing

• Research on victimization of children and adolescents with learning
  disabilities
• Using ecological theory to understand intimate partner violence
  and child maltreatment

Public Health

• Community health
• Negative health behaviors e.g., violence
• Smoking prevention strategies for early elementary school-aged
  children
• Health promotion for adolescents for both school- and community-based
  programs

Medical ethics

• Clinical ethics re: critically ill adults; families experiencing
  higher order multiple birth; and informed consent regarding assisted
  reproductive technologies

Critical care nursing

• Home care referrals: a vulnerable link in the continuum of care
• Co-investigator. Decision Analysis of hospital discharge referrals
• Peri-anesthesia nursing
• Post-anesthesia nursing

Nursing care for the elderly

• Physician-nurse co-management of elders with heart failure
• Alzheimer’s disease and caregiving
• Older adults as care receivers
• Training family caregivers of the rural elderly
• Health services delivery in long-term care

Nursing education

• Nursing graduate students’ socialization to research
• Problem-based learning