Loretta Brush Normile
Associate Professor
Unit:
School of Nursing
Mail Stop: 3C4
Office Location: Robinson A 371
Phone:
703-993-1945
Email: lnormile@gmu.edu
Dr. Loretta Brush Normile graduated with a BSN and MN from the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a doctorate in counseling and Development in Higher Education from American University, Washington, DC. Dr. Normile has a broad-based background in nursing. She has experiences in nursing practice as staff nurse, home health care, and clinical specialist,. She has extensive experience in nursing education and administration. She has taught at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, and West Virginia Northern Community College.
Dr. Normile has been on the faculty at GMU since 1992. At GMU, she teaches Community Health Nursing, Leadership and Management, Advanced Clinical Practice Nursing and Nursing Theory. Dr. Normile's research interest is with disenfranchised populations. Her past research includes psychological distress in parents who lost adult children to cancer vs. AIDS. She also studied female inmates and HIV/STD risk reduction.
Dr. Normile is immediate past president of Epsilon Zeta Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She is also a retired Lieutenant Colonel, Army Nurse Corps, from the US Army Reserves.
Book Chapters:
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.
Recent Publications:
Clark, K. & Normile, L. B. (2007). Influence of time-to-interventions for ED critical care patients on hospital mortality. J Emerg Nurs., 33, 6-13.
Clark, K. & Normile, L. B. (in press). Admissions originating in ED to ICU: Time sequences of interventions on outcomes of hospitalisation. Nurse Researcher.
Clark, K. & Normile, L. B. (2007). Flow in the emergency department: Is timeliness to events related to length of stay? Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 22(1).
Presentations:
January 19 , 2006 Caring and Stress in Barbados Nurses Who Care for Geriatric Patients. A day long workshop for Barbados nurses on Nursing Leadership through Evidenced Based Practice. Presented in Barbados, Wet Indies in cooperation with Pan American Health Organization and Barbados Ministry of Health, Barbados, West Indies and the College of Nursing and Health Science, George Mason University. Barbados, West Indies.
September 29, 2006 Presentation Skills: Speaking with Substance and Style. Advance for Nursing, Job Fair and CE Event, M & T Stadium, Baltimore, Maryland.
October 26, 2006 Panel Presentation following screening of Wan Lobi Tori-A Love Story. Society of International Development in collaboration with PAHO, and Dept. of Global and Community Health, George Mason University, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
January 18, 2007 Political Skills for Nurse Managers: Alliance Building. A day long workshop for Barbados senior nurse managers on Constructing Framework for Oganizational Success. Presented in Barbados, West Indies in cooperation with Barbados Registered Nurse Assn., and Barbados Ministry of Health, Barbados, West Indies and the College of Health and Human Services, School of Nursing, George Mason University,