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Faculty Profile
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Karen Stefaniak, R.N., Ph.D. |
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Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of
Kentucky, 1998
Interests: Collaboration, appreciative
inquiry, positive deviancy and complexity science
Phone: (859) 323-2951
E-mail:
kastef00@email.uky.edu
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Karen Stefaniak received a diploma from Lakeview Memorial Hospital
in Danville, Illinois in 1965, followed by a B.S.N. from
Southern Illinois University in 1967, a M.S.N. from the
University of Kentucky in 1982, and a Ph.D. in Education Policy
Studies and Evaluation from the University of Kentucky in 1998.
Stefaniak recently retired from University of Kentucky Hospital
following 23 years of nursing leadership positions and for the
past seven years was Chief Nursing Officer/Associate Hospital
Director. In that role, she was responsible for nursing practice
throughout the inpatient areas and hospital-based outpatient
areas. Under her leadership, University of Kentucky nursing was
designated Magnet by ANCC in 2001 and redesignated in 2005.
She completed the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellowship
in 2006. She is certified as a nurse administrator by ANCC and
certified in Appreciative Inquiry by the Corporation for
Positive Change. Her primary leadership interests lie in
collaboration, appreciative inquiry, positive deviancy and
complexity science. Her clinical focus has been obstetrics
primarily in labor and delivery in the hospital and as a
childbirth educator in the community. |
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Recent Publications:
Stefaniak, K, & Wood,
S. (2008). Nursing excellence the UK way. In D. L. Cooperrider,
D. Whitney, & J. M. Stavros (Eds.), Appreciative inquiry
handbook (pp. 83-98). Ohio: Crown Custom Publishing, Inc.
Stefaniak, K.
(2007). Discovering nursing excellence through appreciative
inquiry. Nurse Leader, 5(2), 42-46.
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