Nursing Research
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