Graduate Faculty
Meet our Graduate Faculty and learn what their research interests are.
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Kathleen Rayman, PhD, RN Director of Graduate Programs & Associate Professor 207 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-5626 Fax: 423-439-4100 Dr. Rayman engages in qualitative and mixed methods research on self-management of diabetes in women. She was honored with the College of Nursing Joyce Basham Faculty Research Fellowship from 2004-2007. |
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Jeannie Haehner, Executive Aide 206 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-5626 Fax: 423-439-4100 |
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Vickie Van Hall
Executive Aide, PhD Program 292 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-3629 Fax: 423-439-4100 |
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Ronald Mann
Audiovisual Specialist, PhD Program 249 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4601 Fax: 423-439-4100 |
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Sally Blowers, PhD, RN Associate Professor 202 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4504 Fax: 423-439-4100 Dr. Blowers is co-principal investigator for the NURSE Center, funded by DHHS, HRSA, Division of Nursing. The NURSE Center provides mentoring, tutoring and student support services. She works with at-risk students and studies students' emic perspective of nursing and nursing knowledge through her classroom research. |
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Nancy Cameron, DNP, RN, CNAA Assistant Professor & RODP Coordinator 210 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4874 Fax: 423-439-4100 |
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Sandy Diffenderfer, PhD, MSN, RN
Assistant Professor & Clinical Coordinator 295 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4517 Fax: 423-439-4050 |
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Janne Dunham-Taylor, PhD, RN Professor & Coordinator Admin/Health Care Management 2-303 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4494 Fax: 423-439-4100 Dr. Dunham-Taylor is the author of Health Care Financial Management for Nurse Mangers: Merging the Heart with the Dollar and Health Care Financial Management for Nurse Managers: Applications in Hospitals, Long-Term Care, Ambulatory Care, and Home Care (2006). She coordinates and teaches nursing administration and leadership courses at the graduate level and education courses in the PhD program. |
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Joellen Edwards, PhD, RN, FAAN Associate Dean for Research & Professor 105 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4082 Fax: 423-439-5780 Dr. Edwards' current program of research centers on the health status and clinical outcomes of rural populations. She addresses health policy implications and health care system issues as an integral part of her work. |
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Masoud Ghaffari, PhD, RN, MT Associate Professor 200 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4512 Fax: 423-439-4100 Dr. Ghaffari maintains an active qualitative research program aimed at understanding and promoting students' academic and life success. He has developed, tested and published a conceptual model, the Trinity Paradigm of Intelligence, which provides a guiding framework for his work. |
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Patricia Hayes, PhD, RN Associate Professor 109 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4509 Fax: 423-439-4100 Dr. Hayes studies the quality of life and health care practices among rural Appalachian elders. She recently completed a project as principal investigator on a nursing sub-award from the Department of Housing and Urban Development Senior Options Program to the Johnson City Housing Authority. |
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Helene Holbrook, DNP, MSN, FNP Assistant Professor 112 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4521 Fax: 423-439-4100 |
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Susan Hossler, MSN, PNP Assistant Professor 254 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4065 Fax: 423-439-4100 |
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Frances Jackson, MSN, RN Associate Professor 204 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4510 Fax: 423-439-4100 |
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Sharon Loury, PhD, MSN, RN Assistant Professor 256 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4057 Fax: 423-439-4050 |
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Jo-Ann Marrs, EdD, RN, FNP, BC Professor & Clinical Coordinator RODP 121 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4624 Fax: 423-439-4100 Dr. Marrs engages in scholarship around ethical issues and has published on linking nursing theory to practice. She has also published articles on background checks and moral turpitude. |
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Peggy McConnell, MN, APRN, BC Associate Professor 119 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4508 Fax: 423-439-4100 |
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Wendy Nehring, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAAIDD Dean 310 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-7051 Fax: 423-439-4543 Dr. Nehring is internationally known as an expert in the field of intellectual disabilities in children and adolescents, and studies many aspects of the health and well-being of this unique population. A second research trajectory is in the area of effective use of simulation in nursing education. |
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Leigh Powers, DNP, RN Assistant Professor 261 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4872 Fax: 423-439-4100 |
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Susan Rasmussen, PhD, RN Assistant Professor 293 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4611 Fax: 423-439-4100 |
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Judy Rice, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, RN Assistant Professor Johnson City Downtown Clinic /299 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-926-2500/423-439-4396 Fax: 423-926-5999/423-439-4100 |
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Jennifer Stewart-Glenn, FNP, RN Assistant Professor 258 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4091 Fax: 423-439-4100 |
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April Stidham, PhD, RN Instructor 124 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4108 Fax: 423-439-4100 |
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Sharon Trumbley, MSN, WHNP Assistant Professor 246 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4056 Fax: 423-439-4100 |
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Pearl Ume-Nwagbo, PhD, FNP, RN, MSN Assistant Professor 245 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4083 Fax: 423-439-4100 Dr. Ume-Nwagbo recently completed her dissertation on cultural competence among nurse educators. She has published on Neuman's Systems Theory as best practice in Nursing Science Quarterly. |
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Patricia Vanhook, PhD, RN, FNP, BC Assist. Prof. & Assoc. Dean Practice & Co-Coordinator NP Program 142 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-7184 Fax: 423-439-4100 Dr. Vanhook studies the impact of stroke on the lives of survivors. Her dissertation study empirically explored and validated the concept of "comeback" from the theory of chronic illness trajectory in female Appalachian stroke survivors. |
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Jennie Walls, MSN, FNP-BC Associate Professor/Co-Coordinator NP Program 257 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4066 Fax: 423-439-4100 |
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Florence Weierbach, PhD, MSN, MPH Assistant Professor 113 Nicks Hall Phone: 423-439-4588 Fax: 423-439-4100 |
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