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Research Links for Marcia Stanhope Marcia Stanhope received her undergraduate degree
in nursing from the University of Kentucky and Master of Science
in Nursing from Emory University, Atlanta. In 1981, she completed
her study at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, for the
doctoral degree in public health nursing with a minor in health
policy and consultation. Her doctoral study was funded by a
research fellowship grant awarded by the Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare, Division of Nursing. Her dissertation was
titled, "A Concurrent and Retrospective Evaluation of the
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Affecting Nurse Performance in
Home Health Care."
Her areas of research interest include community
health and administration, nurse managed care, home health, and
nurse practitioner productivity. She also received a grant from
the National Institute of Nursing Research to develop an
instrument for measuring nursing intensity in home health. Her
current research projects include a comparison of clinical
preventive services offered in two models of primary care
delivery, and evaluation of school health education on children's
health behaviors.
While at UK, Stanhope has been
principal investigator for the Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
Master's Program Component (1986-89) and the Community Nursing
Services Administration Master's Program Component (1986-92)
funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS),
Division of Nursing. She is currently principal investigator for
the Public Health Clinical Specialist Masters Program Component
(2000-2003), funded by DHHS, Division of Nursing.
Her involvement in public health policy led to an appointment
to the Governor's Task Force for Health Care Reform in 1992. She
has presented papers at the local, national and international
level, including for the American Public Health Association and
the International Congress of Nurses. Stanhope is a fellow of
the American Academy of Nurses.
She was involved in the expansion of services for the homeless
in Lexington. With others, she was awarded a contract by the DHHS
Division of Nursing to develop a nurse-managed clinic in
1987. The clinic continues services for homeless men today. She is
working on the development of clinic services for homeless women.
Stanhope is first author of Handbook of Community and
Public Health Nursing Practice, Mosby, 2000; Community and
Public Health Nursing, Mosby, 2000; Handbook of
Community-Based and Home Health Nursing Practice, Mosby, 1999;
and Foundations of Community Centered Nursing Practice,
Mosby, 2001.
Stanhope has served as president of the Kentucky Board of
Nursing and vice president of the American Nurses Credentialing
Center. She currently serves on the Lexington-Fayette County Board
of Health and on a task force for preventive care needs of Special
Olympiads. She was awarded the 2000 Public
Health Nursing Creative Achievement Award by the American Public
Health Association. In 2002 she was appointed to the newly
established Good Samaritan Professor and Chair in Community Health Nursing.
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