Biography
Stephanie Bruce, DNPc, RN, ACNS-BC, APNP is an associate professor at Alverno College and resides in Milwaukee, WI, USA. She received her master’s of science degree in nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her bachelor’s degree in biomedical science from Marquette University. She has a clinical background in geriatrics, inpatient physical rehabilitation, diabetes, and occupational health. She has expertise in undergraduate curriculum development related to pharmacology, geriatrics, nutrition, simulation, and hospital-based clinicals. Her doctoral dissertation is on the effect of an asynchronous webinar education module on caregivers’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward older adults to provide quality geriatric medication management in a home care setting. During her doctoral practicum she co-created the first diagnosis specific clinic for diabetes management at a free medical clinic and continues to create positive change through her volunteer work there. She is also the founder of the Annual Milwaukee Area Student Nurses Convention to help students prepare for nursing school and their career beyond. She has been nominated for Advisor of the Year and the Sister Joel Read Civic Engagement Practitioners Award for her work with multiple nursing student groups and activism within the surrounding campus community.
Research Interest
Geriatric Nursing Care, Undergraduate Nursing Education Techniques, Simulation
Biography
Charmaine Attard achieved a BSc in Nursing in 1994 and went on to read an MSc in Nursing with the University of Manchester in 2006 and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration with the University of Leicester in 2016. After graduating she worked for a number of years in the acute areas of care within St. Luke’s Hospital and Capua Palace Hospital. In 1999 she went on into long term care, where she managed a private home for the elderly. In 2006 she went on to become Operations Manager and in 2009 left long term care and took up the post of Director of Nursing and Midwifery at Mater Dei Hospital wherein 2013 she was given the post of Director of Care at Karin Grech Rehabilitation hospital. In 2015 Attard joined AX Holdings as Director of Care of Hilltop Gardens overseeing care given both in the care home and in the apartments. She is currently the general manager of Hilltop Gardens, an appointment given to her in 2017. She also holds a part-time assistant senior lecturer post at the University of Malta where she teaches nursing students within the Faculty of Health sciences.
Research Interest
Nursing, Elderly Care, Palliative & Hospice Care
Biography
Pachanut Nunthaitaweekul has completed her PhD from faculty of Nursing, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand (2012). She is the Lecturer at Faculty of Nursing and specific in adult and gerontology nursing (2005-present). She was Adjunct Faculty, school of nursing, University of Minnesota, USA (2009-2012). She was project manager including : Prediction of Coronary Artery Disease using the evaluative form gender age and type of chest-pain (2014-2015), Cardiovascular Prevention Clinic set up in Primary care networks of National Health Security Office Phase II(2015-2016), Effects of Cardiovascular Prevention Clinic in Primary Care Networks to lifestyle behaviors among to patients with Cardiovascular disease (2015-2017), and Developing of caring guideline among to patients with cardiovascular disease from hospital to community (2018-present). She receipted research scholarship from The National Health Security Office (2011-2015), The National Research University Project, Office of Higher Education Commission (2016-2017), and Chulalongkron University (2018-2019). She has published more than 15 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. She is consultance in Routient two Research(R2R) for Police hospital, Thailand.
Research Interest
Cardiovascular nursing, orthopedic nursing, risk behaviors with NCD patients, Pain management concept, Alterative and complementally care, innovation care nursing, and Emergency and Disaster management.