Jeanne Sorrell
Professor
Unit:
School of Nursing
Mail Stop: 3C4
Office Location: Robinson A 373
Phone: 703-993-1944
Email: jsorrell@gmu.edu
Dr. Sorrell's primary nursing background is in adult health. In her doctoral program, she focused on curriculum design, ethics, and writing. In the College, she has served in administrative capacities as Coordinator of the Advanced Clinical Nursing Program, Coordinator of the PhD in Nursing Program, Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Research, and Acting Dean for Nursing. She teaches at all levels within the School of Nursing, including Nursing Education courses in the MSN and PhD programs, Qualitative Research Methods, Nurses as Writers, and The Scholarship of Writing. She has received a University Teaching Excellence Award, the Nursing Spectrum Nurse Excellence Award for Teaching for the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia Region, and the SCHEV Outstanding Faculty in Virginia Award.
Dr. Sorrell’s research areas of interest are ethics and Alzheimer's Disease, as well as educational research. She received funding from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities to disseminate findings from her Alzheimer’s research through an original drama, Six Characters in Search of an Answer, which was staged in 2006 by the George Mason University Theater of the First Amendment. Current research includes funding from the Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases Research Award Fund, The Virginia Center on Aging (with Dr. Cathy Tompkins) for the study, Ethics of Respect for Spirituality in Persons Living with Alzheimer’s Disease; funding from the National League for Nursing (with Dr. Pamela Cangelosi as Principal Investigator) for the study, Expert to Novice: Clinicians Learning New Roles as Clinical Nurse Educators; and funding from the University of the District of Columbia (with Dr. Jean Moore as Principal Investigator) for the study, Childhood Obesity: The Effect of a Nutrition Intervention Program, Color Your Pyramid, on Nutrition Knowledge, Eating Behavior, Physical Activity and Nutrition Status in Washington, D.C. Public Schools. Dr. Sorrell is also co-investigator with Dr. Christine Dinkins, Wofford College, on the research study, The Lived Experience of Doctoral Students Writing a Dissertation.
Recent Publications:
Sorrell, J. M. (2007). The transparency of aging. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing
and Mental Health Services. In press.
Durham, S., Merritt, J., & Sorrell, J. M. (2006). Implementing a new faculty workload formula. Nursing Education Perspectives. In press.
Sorrell, J. M. (2006). Listening in thin places: Ethics in the care of persons with Alzheimer’s. Advances in Nursing Science, 29(2), 152-160.
Sorrell, J. M. (2006). Health literacy in older adults. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 44(3), 17-20.
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.
Sorrell, J. M. (2005). Struggling to do the right thing: Stories from people living with Alzheimer's Disease. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 43(7), 13-16.
Educational Background:
- PhD – George Mason University
- MSN – University of Wisconsin
- BSN – University of Michigan