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Faculty Bookshelf

The Faculty Bookshelf lists published books or chapters written or edited by College of Health and Human Services faculty.

Farrokh Alemi

A thinking person's weight loss and exercise program.  Alemi F, Neuhauser D. (Editors), 2006.
This book applies principles of system analysis to maintaining will power over time and keeping up with one's resolutions.

Decision analysis for healthcare managers.  Alemi F, Gustafson D.  Health Administration Press, 2006. 
This is a book written for graduate students in health care administration, nursing administration and health professionals planning to analyze managerial decisions in health care settings.

Whale in the watermelon.  Alemi F.  Xlibiris, 2005

Alemi F, Maghboeba M. Telephone bulletin boards reduce clinic utilization. In Wellness and Prevention Sourcebook, Faulkner and Gray Publishers, New York, 1997.

Alemi F. Electronic communities of patients: computer services through telephones. In Brennan P, Schneider S. (Editors) Community Health Information Networks, Springer, in print.

Gustafson DH, Cats-Baril WL, Alemi F. Systems to Support Health Policy Analysis: Theory, Models, and Uses, Health Administration Press: Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1992.

Christine Blasser

Preparing students for home visits. Chapter in G. Redmond and J. Sorrell (Eds.). Community-based Nursing Curriculum: A Faculty Guide, 53-70. F. A. Davis (2002)
Winner of 2002 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award

Lucy Boland

Teaching students in a campus clinical. Chapter in G. Redmond and J. Sorrell (Eds.). Community-based Nursing Curriculum: A Faculty Guide, 121-138. F. A. Davis (2002)
Winner of 2002 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award

Community-based nursing practice on a college campus. Chapter in J. Sorrell and G. Redmond (Eds.), Community-Based Nursing Practice: Learning Through Students' Stories, 371-380. F.A. Davis (2002)

Rose Brenkus (with Mary Narayan)

Communication as the fabric of community-based nursing practice. Chapter in J. Sorrell and G. Redmond (Eds.), Community-Based Nursing Practice: Learning Through Students' Stories, 253-276. F.A. Davis (2002)

Andrew Carle

Carle, A., Kodadek, M., & Metcalf, J. (Eds.) . Moments, Memories, and Mission: Stories from the Field of Assisted Living. George Mason Intellectual Properties (2005).

Carle, A. (Co-Editor). In J. Noonan (Ed.), Leadership, Management, and Operations: Level Two. AIM: The Society for Senior Living  Professionals (2005) .

Michele Davidson

Davidson, M.R. (2007). Biogen. In Colditz, G.A. (2007). Encyclopedia of Cancer & Society. London: Sage Publications.

Davidson, M.R. (2007). Family size. In Colditz, G.A. (2007). Encyclopedia of Cancer & Society. London: Sage Publications.

Davidson, M.R. (2007). Vaccine workers. In Colditz, G.A. (2007). Encyclopedia of Cancer & Society. London: Sage Publications.

Davidson, M.R. (2007). Calgene. In Colditz, G.A. (2007). Encyclopedia of Cancer & Society. London: Sage Publications.

Davidson, M.R. (2007). Childhood NonHodgkins Lymphoma. In Colditz, G.A. (2007). Encyclopedia of Cancer & Society. London: Sage Publications.

Davidson, M.R. (2007). Neurofibromatosis. In Colditz, G.A. (2007). Encyclopedia of Cancer & Society. London: Sage Publications.

Davidson, M.R., Ladewig, P.L., & London, M.L. (2008). Old's maternal-newborn nursing across the lifespan (8th ed). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Health.

Davidson, M.R., Ladewig, P.L., & London, M.L. (2008). Handbook for Old's maternal-newborn nursing across the lifespan (8th ed). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Health.

Davidson, M.R., Ladewig, P.L., & London, M.L. (2008). Workbook for Old's maternal-newborn nursing across the lifespan (8th ed). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Health.

Ladewig, P.L., London, M.L., & Davidson, M.R.  (2005).  Contemporary maternal-newborn nursing care. (6th ed.).  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall Health.

Ladewig, P.L., London, M.L., & Davidson, M.R.  (2005).  Handbook of contemporary maternal-newborn nursing care. (6th ed.).  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall Health.

Ladewig, P.L., London, M.L., & Davidson, M.R.  (2005).  Workbook of contemporary maternal-newborn nursing care. (6th ed.).  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall Health.

Charlene Douglas

Cultural competence as a foundation for community-based nursing practice. Chapter in J. Sorrell and G. Redmond (Eds.), Community-Based Nursing Practice: Learning Through Students' Stories, 95-122. F.A. Davis (2002)

Susan Durham

Teaching students in a home-care setting. Chapter in G. Redmond and J. Sorrell (Eds.). Community-based Nursing Curriculum: A Faculty Guide, 149-160. F. A. Davis (2002)
Winner of 2002 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award

Community-based nursing practice in home-care settings. Chapter in J. Sorrell and G. Redmond (Eds.), Community-Based Nursing Practice: Learning Through Students' Stories, 393-412. F.A. Davis (2002)

Laura Fox

Sheridan, R. L., & Fox, L. E. (2004). Life care planning for children with pediatric burns. In S. Riddick-Grisham (Ed.), Pediatric life care planning and case management (pp. 637-658). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Lynn Gerber

Gerber, L. H., M. M. Vargo, et al. (2005). Rehabilitation of the Cancer Patient. Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology. Devita, Hellman and Rosenberg. Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins: 2019-2748.

Kathryn Jacobsen

Jacobsen KH. Introduction to Global Health. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2008.

Jacobsen KH. "Migration and Health in Africa and the African Diaspora." In: The Human Cost of African Migrations. Toyin Falola and Niyi Afolabi, editors. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007.

Jacobsen KH & Van Dyke MK. "Development and the Epidemiologic Transition in sub-Saharan Africa." In: HIV/AIDS, Illness, and African Well-Being. Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton, editors. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2007.

Marie Kodadek

Health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention in the community. Chapter in J. Sorrell and G. Redmond (Eds.), Community-Based Nursing Practice: Learning Through Students' Stories, 79-94. F.A. Davis (2002)

Carle, A., Kodadek, M., & Metcalf, J. (Eds.) . Moments, Memories, and Mission: Stories from the Field of Assisted Living. George Mason Intellectual Properties (2005).

Christena Langley

Langley, C.  (2002).  Teaching students in unstructured settings.  In G. Redmond & J. Sorrell (Eds),  Community-based nursing:  A faculty guide. (Chapter Six), Philadelphia:  F. A. Davis Company.

Langley, C.  (2002).  Overview:  Community-based nursing.  In G. Redmond & J. Sorrell (Eds),  Community-based nursing:  Student narratives of practice  . (Chapter One), Philadelphia:  F. A. Davis Company.

Mimi Mahon

Chapters

Mahon, M. M. (2006)  Ethical issues in end of life care.  In V. D. Lachman, Ed. Applied Ethics in Nursing.  New York: Springer. 

Mahon, M. M.  (2006).  Palliative care for children and families. M Craft-Rosenberg & M Krajicek, Eds., "Nursing Excellence for Children and Families.”

Lynn-McHale, D. J. & Mahon, M.M. (2005). Withholding/withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. In D.J. Lynn-McHale & K.K. Carson, Eds. AACN Procedure manual for critical care (5th ed.). Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.

Mahon, M. M. (2005) Organ donation after cardiac death. In D.J. Lynn-McHale & K.K. Carson, Eds. AACN Procedure manual for critical care (5th ed.). Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.

Books

L.L. Hayman, M.M. Mahon & J.R. Turner, Editors. (2002). Health and Behavior in Childhood and Adolescence. New York: Springer. *An AJN Book of the Year, 2003.

L.L. Hayman, M.M. Mahon & J.R. Turner, Editors. (2002).Chronic illness in children: An evidence-based approach. New York: Springer. *Selected by "Nurse Practitioner" as a Best Book of the Year, 2002.

Ann Maradiegue

Maradiegue, A. & Alsace, N.H. (2000). Gastrointestinal Health. In Meredith, P.V., & Horan, N. M (Eds.), Adult Primary Care. W.B.Saunders.

Janet Merritt

Health assessment concerns in the community. Chapter in J. Sorrell and G. Redmond (Eds.), Community-Based Nursing Practice: Learning Through Students' Stories, 211-232. F.A. Davis (2002)

James Metcalf

Carle, A., Kodadek, M., & Metcalf, J. (Eds.) . Moments, Memories, and Mission: Stories from the Field of Assisted Living. George Mason Intellectual Properties (2005).

Margaret Miklancie

Selection of faculty for a community-based curriculum. Chapter in G. Redmond and J. Sorrell (Eds.). Community-based Nursing Curriculum: A Faculty Guide, 17-28. F. A. Davis (2002)
Winner of 2002 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award

Margaret Moss

Teaching students in a faith community. Chapter in G. Redmond and J. Sorrell (Eds.). Community-based Nursing Curriculum: A Faculty Guide, 161-178. F. A. Davis (2002)
Winner of 2002 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award

Community-based nursing practice in a faith community. Chapter in J. Sorrell and G. Redmond (Eds.), Community-Based Nursing Practice: Learning Through Students' Stories, 414-428. F.A. Davis (2002)

Loretta Normile

Normile, L. (2004). Chronic nutritional disorders. In. L. Neal & S. Guillett, (Eds.) Care of the Chronically ill patient. St. Louis: Elsevier/Mosby

Normile, L. (2004). Lower gastrointestinal diseases. In. L. Neal & S. Guillett, (Eds.) Care of the Chronically ill patient. St. Louis: Elsevier/Mosby

Teaching students in a community HIV/AIDS network. Chapter in G. Redmond and J. Sorrell (Eds.). Community-based Nursing Curriculum: A Faculty Guide, 139-148. F. A. Davis (2002)
Winner of 2002 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award

Community-based nursing practice in an HIV/AIDS network. Chapter in J. Sorrell and G. Redmond (Eds.), Community-Based Nursing Practice: Learning Through Students' Stories, 381-412. F.A. Davis (2002)

Do You Know A Nurse? is a children's book written by Dr. Loretta Brush Normile's Spring 2004 Advanced Practice Nursing class as an assigned class project.

Lisa Pawloski

Pawloski, LR (2005) "Exploring Nutritional Status and Gender Bias Among Malian
adolescent Girls" in Gender Disparity: Manifestations, Causes and
Implications; Eds. P. Bharati and M. Pal, Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd.,
New Delhi, pp. 103- 117.

Pawloski, L.R. (2003) Chapter contribution: Chapter 2, “Cultural aspects of the family” in Maternal-Newborn Nursing, 7th ed. Eds. Olds, London, Ladewig, and Davidson.

Francine Roberts

Caring for chronically ill clients in the community. Chapter in J. Sorrell and G. Redmond (Eds.), Community-Based Nursing Practice: Learning Through Students' Stories, 195-210. F.A. Davis (2002)

Carlos Sluzki

Sluzki, CE (2005) Foreword to A.Roizblatt, Ed.: Terapia Familiar para el Siglo XXI: Un Enfoque Clinico. Santiago, Chile, Editorial Mediterraneo (in press)

Sluzki, C (2005): Prologue to Paulina Boss, Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss. New York, W. W. Norton.

Sluzki, CE (2004): “A house taken over by ghosts: Culture, migration and developmental cycle in a Moroccan family invaded by hallucinations.” Families, Systems and Health, 22(3):321-37. (A prior version appeared in Spanish as a chapter in La Practica de la Terapia Familiar: Un Encuentro Clinico (The Practice of Family Therapy: A Clinical Encounter). Buenos Aires, Libros del Zorzal, 2003.)

Sluzki, CE (2004): “Hin und Zurück: Back from when we come from”. Chapter in F.Walsh and M.McGoldrick, Eds.: Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family, 2nd. Edition. New York, Norton.

Sluzki, CE (2003): “The process toward reconciliation.” Chapter in A. Chayes and M. Minow, Eds.: Imagine Coexistence: Restoring Humanity after Violent Ethnic Conflict. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass. (Translated into Italian in Mediazione Familiare Sistemica, 1: 5-11, 2003.)

Jeanne Sorrell

Dinkins, C.S., & Sorrell, J. M. (2006). Co-editors for Vol. V of Interpretive Studies in Healthcare and the Human Sciences. Re-Thinking Ethics: Healthcare and the Human Sciences in the 21st Century. University of Wisconsin Press.

Sorrell, J. M. Creating ethical spaces within health care organizations. (2006). In C. S. Dinkins & J. M. Sorrell, Eds., Listening to the whispers. Re-thinking ethics in 21st century health care. Vol. 5 in Interpretive Studies Series. University of Wisconsin Press.

Sorrell, J. M. Bending, but not breaking the rules. (2006). In C. S. Dinkins & J. M. Sorrell, Eds., Listening to the whispers. Re-thinking ethics in 21st century health care. Vol. 5 in Interpretive Studies Series. University of Wisconsin Press.

Ethics in community-oriented nursing practice. Chapter in M. Stanhope and J. Lancaster (Eds.), Community and Public Health Nursing, 130-147.
By M. Silva, J. Fletcher, and J. Sorrell
Mosby (2004).

Remembering to Care. Aging and Alzheimer's: Personal Stories of Caregiving
By L. Boland, A. Carle, M.E. Farrell, and J. Sorrell
College of Health and Human Services (2003)
Funded with a grant from Kaiser Permanente®

The Magic Stethoscope
By R.N. Hope (Pen name for Nurses as Writers class)
College of Health and Human Services (2002)
Winner of 2003 American Academy of Nursing Media Award

Community-Based Nursing Practice: Learning Through Students' Stories By Jeanne Sorrell and Georgine Redmond (Eds.) F.A. Davis (2002)

Community-based Nursing Curriculum: A Faculty Guide. By Georgine Redmond and Jeanne Sorrell (Eds.) F. A. Davis (2002)
Winner of 2002 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award

Harming patients in the name of quality of life. Chapter in N. L. Diekelmann (Ed.) First, Do No Harm: Power, Oppression and Violence in Health Care. Interpretive Studies in Healthcare and the Human Sciences, Vol. 1,3-48.
By J. Fletcher, M. Silva, and J. Sorrell
University of Wisconsin Press (2002)
Winner of 2003 AJN Book of the Year award

Defining Moments: The Courage to Be
By Advanced Clinical Nursing class
College of Health and Human Services (2001)
Winner of Sigma Theta Tau Region 6 Pinnacle Award for Nursing Print Media

Beveled Edges: A Portrait of Caring. Nurses' Reflections
By Advanced Clinical Nursing class
College of Health and Human Services (2000)
Winner of Sigma Theta Tau Region 6 for Nursing Print Media Award

Maggie Venzke

Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Review and Clinical Reference Guide. Editor: Virginia Layng Millonig, Health Leadership Associates, Potomac Maryland, 2001.

J. DeWitt Webster

Airhihenbuwa, C.O., Jack Jr., L., Webster, J.D. (2004). Community Capacity and Health Intervention Research in Communities of Color in Race and Research: Perspectives on Minority Participation in Health Studies. Eds B.. Beech, V. Setlwo, & M.F. Roohani. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association.

Airhihenbuwa C.O., Webster J.D., Oladosun-Okoror T. (2004)  Transforming Structural Barriers To Improve The Health Of African Americans. The Praeger Handbook of Black American Health (2nd Edition): Policies and Issues Behind Disparities in Health. Ed. I. Livingston. Praeger.

Chien-Yun Wu

Wu, C. Y & Wu, Y. (2006). Nursing Outcome Classification (in Chinese). Beijing University Medical publisher Beijing: China (Translated from Moorhead, S.,  Johnson, M.& Maas, M.(2004), Nursing Outcome Classification. Mosby)

Wu, C. & Ying, L. P. (2002). Handbook of Clinical Pathway. Beijing, China: Beijing University Publisher

Wu, C.(2000). (Chief Editor). Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis. Beijing, China: Scientific and Technical Documents Publishing House.

Wu, C.(1997). (Chief Editor). Holistic Nursing: Systematic Approach in Clinical Practice. China: Beijing United Publisher.

Wu, C., & Xiao, S. Z. (1997, 1999). Pharmacology and Nursing Process. Beijing, China: Beijing Medical College Publisher.

Pan, Y. Q., & Wu, C. (1997). Holistic Nursing and Clinical Practice. Shangdong, China: Shangdong Science and Technology Publisher.

Wu, C., & Jin, Q. (1996). Systematic Approach to Holistic Nursing Care. Beijing, China: Agriculture Publisher.

Wu, C., & Jin, Q. (1995). Systematic Approach to Holistic Nursing Care and Model Unit Establishment. Beijing, China: National Nursing Center of China, Ministry of Health.