Phone: (602) 496-0779
Fax: (602) 496-0886
E-mail: Nelma.Shearer@asu.edu
Address:
College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation
Arizona State University
500 N 3rd Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004-0698
Education
- PhD - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Nursing, 2000 - MS - Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Community Health Nursing, 1987 - M Ed - University of Missouri, St. Louis
Guidance and Counseling, 1977 - BS - South Dakota State University, Brookings
Nursing, 1972
Recent Publications
- Reed, P.G., & Shearer, N.B.C. (Eds.). (2009). Perspectives on Nursing Theory (5th ed.) Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Shearer, N.B.C. (2008). Hair, hands, and oxygen tanks: Embodiment and health empowerment in homebound older women. Vision: The Journal of Rogerian Nursing Science, 15(1), 18-27.
- Shearer, N.B.C. (2007). Toward a nursing theory of health empowerment in homebound older women. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 33(12), 38-45.
- Reed, P.G., & Shearer, N.B. (2006). Peplau's theoretical model. In J. Fitzpatrick and M. Wallace (Eds.), Encyclopedia of nursing research (2nd ed., pp. 459-461). New York: Springer.
- Shearer, N.B.C., & Fleury, J. (2006). Social support promoting health in older women. Journal of Women Aging, 18(4) 3-17.
Current/Recent Grants and Projects
- "Health Empowerment Intervention with Homebound Older Adults"... (PI), National Institutes of Health---Nursing Research, Academic Research Enhancement Award
(AREA) R-15...1/107-12/31/08 - Development of the Health Empowerment Intervention (PI) Arizona State University Faculty-Grant-In-Aid, January 2005-present.
Honors/Awards
- Western Institute of Nursing—Regional Geriatric Nursing Research Award, 2006.
- Hartford Institute/AJN Geriatric Nursing Research Scholar, 2005.
- Best Poster Award from the Western Institute of Nursing Communicating Nursing Research Conference—Lived experience of health empowerment in homebound older women, 2005.
- Outstanding Researcher Award—Arizona State University College of Nursing, 2005.
- The Pamela A. Kidd Faculty of the Year Award (2003-2004)—Graduate Nurse Organization, 2004.
- Ada Sue Hinshaw/American Nurses Foundation Scholar, 2002.
