Department of Nursing faculty engage in qualitative and quantitative research, advancing the field in areas including cultural competency, successful aging, rural health and end of life care.
Faculty/Staff Member | Area of Expertise and/or Research |
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Vermont Department of Health Internship: Creation of Vermont State Health Plan |
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Adult primary care |
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Adult primary care, palliative care |
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Ethical decision-making, qualitative methods, simulation learning |
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Medical-surgical nursing, nursing education, nursing practice and climate change |
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Development of cultural competency, pediatric care |
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Clinical care |
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Nursing administration |
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Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator |
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Administration and management, congestive heart failure, hypertension |
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Nursing administration, outpatient services |
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Dance/movement, maternal-child, family and urgent care nursing |
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Gerontology, Service-Learning Pedagogy, Clinical Nurse Leader |
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Critical care |
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Mental health, psychiatric illness, substance use assessment and treatment |
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Primary care, integrative medicine, depression and anxiety in primary care |
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Nurse Practitioner Competency, Nursing Education, Telehealth, Evidence Based Practice, Quality Improvement Outcomes |
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Dr. Laurent’s research focuses largely on how dietary sugars affect brain reward circuits, gut metabolism, and eating behaviors such as addictive-like eating in obese adolescents. |
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Clinical simulation, interprofessional education, emergency nursing |
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Autism Spectrum Disorder, qualitative research methods |
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Psychiatry/mental health |
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Cultural competency, nursing education |
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Family medicine/primary care |
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Nursing education, medical-surgical nursing, simulation, active learning |
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Acute care hospital settings, long-term care/complex environment, gerontology |
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Consultant on incivility and unkindness in the healthcare workplace Midwifery, Maternal Child and Women's Health Socio-Political Issues in Women's Health Sex Education |
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Nursing Education, Medical-Surgical Nursing |
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Pediatrics |
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Community health improvement, diabetes education, pediatric nursing, quality improvement, care coordination. |
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Interprofessional education, nursing workforce, Alzheimer's disease |
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Established neonatal nurse practitioner with a commitment to professional practice by educating the next generation of advanced practice clinicians and exemplary nurse practitioner faculty leaders. |
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Gerontology, wound care |
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Maternal/newborn care, surgical/pediatric intensive care nursing |
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Medical-surgical nursing and nursing education |
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Nurse case management, utilization review, acute care rehabilitation, stroke management |
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Curriculum design, mentoring, simulation |
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Endocrinology with a focus on diabetes and obesity, health care reform/health policy, harm reduction |
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Experienced with behavioral health issues in a primary care setting, quality improvement and assurance |
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Family medicine/primary care |
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Maternal and child public health, health promotion, emergency preparedness, epidemiology, global health, humanitarian medical assistance |