Faculty Profile

Suzanne Prevost, R.N., Ph.D., C.O.I.

Professor; Associate Dean for Practice & Engagement
Faculty Status: Graduate
Education: Ph.D., Texas Woman's University, 1992
Interests: End-of-Life Care, Advanced Practice Nursing, Educational Technology
Phone: (859) 323-6685
E-mail: suzanne.prevost@uky.edu

Suzanne Prevost started her nursing career with an R.N. Diploma from South Side Hospital School of Nursing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She went on to receive her bachelor’s degree from Villa Maria College (now a component of Gannon University) in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her master’s degree is from the Medical University of South Carolina, and her Ph.D. is from Texas Woman’s University. She has received outstanding alumnus awards from all three of these universities. Prevost also completed a John A. Hartford Foundation geriatric postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; and she is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Executive Fellow.

Prevost assumed her associate dean position at UK in August, 2008. In this position she manages the College’s Faculty Practice Plan and Continuing Education Programs and serves as a liaison between the College and collaborating clinical facilities. For the previous ten years, Dr. Prevost served as a nursing professor and the National HealthCare chair in geriatric nursing at Middle Tennessee State University. From 1993-1998, she held a joint appointment at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) where she taught in the College of Nursing and served as a nursing director managing nursing research, staff development, case management, and advanced practice nursing for UTMB Hospitals.

Prevost is a certified online instructor (C.O.I.), as well as a certified trainer with both the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association and the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC). Her current research programs focus on increasing the use of technology in colleges of nursing and improving end-of-life care in nursing homes. She is currently serving as co-investigator on two HRSA grants focused on increasing the use of educational technologies. In 2008, she received the National Research Abstract Award from the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association. Prevost has served two terms as the secretary of Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor Society for Nurses and one term as the chair of the national board of directors for the Critical Care Nursing Certification Corporation. She is the clinical editor for the journal Nursing Clinics of North America.

Recent Presentations:

Evidence-Based Education as a Foundation for Advanced Nursing Practice. Symposium, Sigma Theta Tau International Conference, Vancouver, B.C., July 2009.

Pain Among Healthy Young, Middle-Aged, and Elderly Adults. Oral presentation, Southern Nursing Research Society Conference, Galveston, Texas, February 2007.