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Dr. Sunny Cheng
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Chieh (Sunny) Cheng, RN, Ph.D is an Assistant Professor of the Nursing and Healthcare Leadership program at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her clinical background is in psychiatric and mental health nursing. As a nursing scientist, her program of research is in the promoting the mental health of individuals, families, and communities through early prevention. She is a co-investigator on interdisciplinary research teams focusing on understanding the experiences of individuals and families living with first episode psychosis and to develop personalized approaches that maximize health and well-being for individuals across life span and diverse populations.
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Dr. Denise Drevdahl
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Denise Drevdahl conducts research in the areas of public/community health nursing, bias in healthcare providers, cultural competence, and health disparities.
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Dr. Jodi Erickson
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Jodi Erickson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership program at University of Washington Tacoma. Jodi has been an RN since 2011 and worked for 12 years in the acute care setting, initially as an ICU RN and as a Hospital Supervisor. Currently, she works clinically in home health. Jodi's research focused on older adults and end-of-life decision-making. Additionally, she had conducted some research focused on pandemic preparedness as well as clinical evaluation.
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Dr. Robin Evans-Agnew
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Areas of scholarship: Emancipatory leadership/followership and environmental justice nursing. In this work I am particularly interested in anti-racist and feminist methodologies for structural transformation. I work with school nurses, public health nurses and other public health professionals in the south sound area and statewide on environmental justice issues such as asthma, adverse childhood experiences, climate change, and air pollution. I am a nationally recognized expert in the visual research method of photovoice. I have multi-year experience in applications of this method within a local community-based participatory research study with Latinas with children with asthma. I have an established partnership with south sound healthcare/nursing educators to mitigate the long-term effects of adverse childhood experiences in the next generation of healthcare leaders/followers.
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Dr. Katie Haerling
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In addition to her faculty appointment at the University of Washington Tacoma School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership, Dr. Haerling has served as a Pro Tem Member of the State of Washington Department of Health Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission. She is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) and an alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars Program. Dr. Haerling’s research examining the reliability and validity of data produced using observation-based simulation participant performance assessment instruments is widely cited in the literature. Her ongoing research comparing the effectiveness and cost-utility of different experiential and simulation-based learning activities continues to contribute to the body of knowledge informing best practices in healthcare education. Her research mission is to help identify the most effective and efficient ways to prepare the next generation of healthcare professionals and contribute to the evidence-base supporting better healthcare education. She believes improving healthcare providers' education will support improved healthcare and a healthier nation and world.
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Dr. Leodoro J. Labrague
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Dr. Labrague's research examines leadership, healthcare environments, and workforce dynamics, focusing on their influence on patient care, safety, and outcomes. He also investigates the migration experiences and integration challenges of culturally diverse nurses in the U.S., aiming to develop strategies that support their acculturation and retention. His work aspires to create a comprehensive framework for integrating these nurses into global healthcare settings while enhancing resilience and professional growth. Additionally, he conducts research on teaching innovations in nursing education to enhance educational practices.
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Dr. Sharon Laing
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Dr. Laing is trained as a developmental/health psychologist and conducts research that address health promotion and chronic disease prevention in low-resourced and economically disadvantaged communities. She is a health disparities researcher, and her scholarship is designed to support underserved communities in gaining access into existing healthcare systems. Dr. Laing’s work also explores a re-imagining of digital healthcare technologies to be more tailored to and maximally supportive of marginalized and disadvantaged communities.
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Dr. Patsy Maloney
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My area of research is nursing professional development. Nursing professional development is a specialty and the nurses that practice the specialty are called nursing professional development practitioners. They are also known by a variety of other names such as clinical educators, educators, and staff development educators. NPD practitioners do not teach students but teach and develop other nurses and other health care providers in the practice setting. My two current research projects are: Exploring current and future nursing professional development (NPD) practice and Multi-Site NPD leader competency determination study.
Exploring current and future nursing professional development practice is a qualitative study that collects data on current and future NPD practice to inform the revision of the NPD scope and standards of practice. The multi-site NPD leader competency study’s purpose is to identify the competencies needed to successfully lead professional development across a multisite system. This knowledge will promote the development of education and other tools to facilitate successful role transition and integration of the multi-site NPD leader.
In my role as scholar and teacher at UWT, I share my passion for NPD with students. I have worked with students who have designed educational activities for a variety of different practice settings. Currently one of my students is designing an online educational activity to on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for NICU. Another student has just completed presenting an educational activity that she designed on worker-on-worker violence at a virtual national conference with over 3000 participants. If you like teaching and developing other nurses and healthcare worker, check out nursing professional development. You can find research on nursing professional development in the Journal for Nurses in Professional Development and in the Journal for Continuing Education in Nursing.
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Dr. David Reyes
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David Reyes, DNP, MN/MPH, RN, PHNA-BC is Dean and Associate Professor of Nursing & Health Care Leadership at UW Tacoma. He holds adjunct appointments at UW Seattle School of Nursing in the Department of Child, Family & Population Health Nursing, and School of Public Health in the Department of Health Systems & Population Health. Dr. Reyes joined the faculty at the University of Washington Tacoma (UWT) in 2014, and has held clinical, educational and leadership roles in community and public health, acute care, home health, and perioperative nursing. His primary interests are in in addressing the root causes of health inequity and disparities, building community capacity to improve health, and population health systems. His research uses community-based participatory approaches that focus on equitable relationships with diverse communities to improve health outcomes.
Dr. Reyes has held national level health policy, leadership, and professional roles in the American Public Health Association, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Institute of Medicine’s Standing Committee on Family Planning, and the Washington State Public Health Association.
Dr. Reyes received his Doctor of Nursing Practice (2013), and Master of Nursing and Master of Public Health degrees (2002) from the University of Washington. He received his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Seattle University with a minor in history in 1983; Dr. Reyes is board certified in Advanced Public Health Nursing.
Scholarly Interests
- Community capacity and leadership to identify and prioritize health indicators
- Community/public health nursing workforce development
- Exploring root causes/determinants of health disparities and health inequity
- Integration of population health and primary care
- Organizational and leadership development
- Population health and health systems
- Vaccine confidence and acceptance among Asian & Pacific
Dr. Christine Stevens
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Dr. Christine Stevens is an associate professor in the School of Nursing and Healthcare. As an activist-scholar, she uses community-based research to develop strategies to address food insecurity and homelessness among college students. For the last 20 years, Dr Stevens has explored the needs and strategies of unstably housed adolescents to manage food insecurity. In the last 10 years, her research focused on food insecurity and homelessness among college students and this research supported the starting of a food bank for UWT students in 2015. She has conducted tri-campus food and housing survey for UW students on all three campuses, participated in a Gates Foundation study on Emergency Aid, and explored cultural foods in UWT Food Pantry and Community food Banks in Pierce County. She was given the UWT Distinguished Teaching award and featured in the Provost series of Innovators among us: Using technology to engage students. She has received the UWT Distinguished Community Engagement Award and was a nominee for the 2018 Tacoma City of Destiny award and Salishan Community Partner award.
Stevens (June 2018) NPR interview: Food Insecurity Is a Growing Obstacle for College Students http://knkx.org/post/food-insecurity-growing-obstacle-college-students
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Dr. Weichao Yuwen
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Dr. Yuwen's research focuses on promoting health and wellbeing among marginalized children and their family caregivers. Her team is currently developing and testing two technology-enabled health interventions: Sleep Innovations for Preschoolers with Arthritis - SIPA (https://depts.washington.edu/sipa/) and Caring for Caregivers Online - COCO (https://cocobot.care/).
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