Listing Details

• Credentials
  PhD, RN, CHTP, CT, NCC, AHN-BC, FAAN
• Address
  735 W Orange Tree Place, Tucson, AZ, United States, 85704
• Continent
  North America
• Phone
  520-219-3974
• Website
  www.nursing.asu.edu/research/centers/who-cc
• Biography

  My life experience includes baccalaureate degrees in both nursing and communication/family studies, masters degrees in nursing and communication/family counseling and a doctorate in psychology with a double minor in family counseling and speech and hearing sciences. I was certified as a healing touch practitioner in 2003, pinned by Janet Mentgen, and continue to do 'the work' on a limited basis. Most of my nursing experience was in hospice and hospice home care, but have done med/surg, medical oncology, surgery, and nursing home supervision. I lived in Asia for 3 years teaching for the US Military through the U of Maryland and studied cultural death practices, as well as alternative forms of healing. I was a research associate professor for 10 years at the U of Arizona College of Medicine with a focus on sleep disorders and sleep health promotion, primarily for women and underserved Latinos. For the past 11 years, I was nursing faculty at Arizona State University, directing the Center for World Health. I retired in July of 2015 and am a Professor Emerita of Nursing and Southwest Borderlands Nursing scholar. In 2016, after spending several years working with the Pan American Health Organization and submitting application, I received word that our college was designated as a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre to Advance the Policy on Research for Health. I served as a Deputy Co-Director. I continue to train diabetes health educators at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico as to sleep disorders and sleep health promotion, and on complementary, alternative and holistic approaches to healing with an emphasis on and demonstration of Healing Touch. I publish in professional journals with nurse colleagues, and co-authored the chapter on Evidence-Based Practice for Dossey and Keegan's 'Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice.' In my spare time, I am a rabid junior genealogist (starting in 1976), tracing a line on my dad's side back to Charlemagne. Namaste!