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position: Professor Emerita
department: College of Nursing
United States
My program of research is focused on adaptation and self-management of chronic illness in rural dwellers. Within this broad research area, I have expertise in community-based participatory research strategies; telehealth delivery of chronic illness self-management skills information; issues affecting rural health care providers; and development and implementation of research studies in sparsely populated areas. I have been engaged in numerous studies including principal investigator (PI) on two federally funded studies conducted in partnership with the Center for Asbestos Related Disease, in Libby, Montana. We explored the bio-psychosocial heath status of persons exposed to Libby amphibole asbestos and their knowledge and acceptance of research. I have served as co-investigator on a large Internet-based intervention study to increase adaptation and chronic illness self-management in isolated rural women and co-investigator on a 3-state study to explore rural nurses access to, and use of, research in their practice. For several years, I was the Associate Director, Pilot Core Director, and Administrative Core Director for the Center for Research on Chronic Health Conditions in Rural Dwellers in the College of Nursing at Montana State University. I am the editor or co-editor of five editions of Rural Nursing: Concepts, Theory and Practice (Springer Publishing).
Articles contributed to by this person
Original Research 24 August 2007
Access to and use of research by rural nurses
Original Research 30 November 2010
Expressions of depression in rural women with chronic illness
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International Conference on Rural Remote Nursing and Rural Health (ICRRNRH), 15–16 June 2023, Tokyo, Japan
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Annual Dakota Conference on Rural and Public Health, 14–16 June 2023, Bismarck, ND, USA
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9th Rural & Remote Health Scientific Symposium, 20 & 21 June 2023, Canberra, Australia
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Annual National Rural Institute on Alcohol, Drugs and Addictions, 25–29 June 2023, Menomonie, WI, USA
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WONCA CIMF VIII Regional Congress, 29 June–2 July 2023, Punta Cana, República Dominicana
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International Conference on Rural Nursing and Healthcare (ICRNH 2023), 17–18 July 2023, Berlin, Germany
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Bi-Annual International Rural Nursing Conference, 26–28 July 2023, Johnson City, TN, USA
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Ohio Rural Health Conference, 3–4 August 2023, Ada, OH, USA
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12th EURIPA Rural Health Forum, 19–21 October 2023, Călimănești-Căciulata, Romania
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Rural Medicine Australia Conference (RMA2023), 18–21 October 2023, nipaluna, lutruwita (Hobart, Tasmania), Australia
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