Marilyn L. Stember

University of Colorado | UCD · College of Nursing

Strong professional priorities, evolving Affordable Care Act requirements, and a significantly limited public health nursing workforce prompted the University of Colorado College of Nursing to collaborate with the School of Public Health to implement one of the first Doctor of Nursing Practice/Master of Public Health dual degree programs in the nat...

Background/Issue. IOM’s Future of Nursing recommends nurses have doctoral preparation to be full partners with other comparably educated health professionals. AACN voted to move advanced nursing practice education from master’s to DNP by 2015. Implementation of ACA will require PHN leaders of the future to have the highest level of interprofessiona...

Public health nursing leaders of the future will require the highest level of interprofessional knowledge and skills to succeed in collaborating with other public health professionals to best serve complex population health needs. Description: The University of Colorado offers one of the first Doctor of Nursing Practice/Master of Public Health (D...

Meaningful examination of program outcomes is one of the most challenging tasks facing faculty and administrators involved in the design and delivery of educational programs. This article reports the outcomes for one doctoral program in nursing and elucidates salient conceptual and methodologic issues in educational outcomes research for this disci...

To facilitate an understanding of the influence of parental characteristics on the development of infant obesity. Conducted in collaboration with a NIH-funded study of infant growth, this study employed a longitudinal prospective design. Anthropometric measures were obtained monthly and home visits were conducted five times through 15 months of age...

It is well-documented that infants born to smoking mothers weigh less at birth than infants born to nonsmoking mothers. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of prenatal smoking on the development of later infant obesity. Evidence suggests prenatally smoke-exposed infants catch up in weight by age 6 months, although results of...

Research with focus groups of adolescents was conducted prior to implementing an adolescent health promotion program. Data were drawn from videotaped focus groups of adolescents attending two rival middle schools. Matrices were employed for data analysis in a two-phase process. Results indicated adolescent health promotion needs in the areas of vio...

Although interdisciplinary work in universities has expanded in recent decades, the influence of academic disciplines is pervasive. The article makes explicit the opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinary for the social sciences. The strategies offered for enhancing the interdisciplinary enterprise include selecting appropriate group member...

Severity and vulnerability as important constructs in the Health Belief Model were examined in school-age children. Cognitive development theory and sex-role socialization theory provided the bases for predicting age and gender differences. Nine hundred forty-six children in first, fourth, and sixth grade from seven schools in five states participa...