This includes projects focused on analyzing and evaluating outcomes of health care, including client satisfaction and improved health. Culturally appropriate biobehavioral interventions including teaching, biofeedback, and counseling are developed and tested for effectiveness. Both psychosocial and physiological responses of individuals including immune function and quality of life are used to determine the effectiveness of these nursing interventions. Currently, eight faculty are engaged in funded research projects.
Additional faculty are in the process of submitting grants for their particular research focus.
The College of Nursing has recently hired an Associate Dean for Research. It is anticipated that with this administrative commitment, research development programs will flourish.