Diane Wind Wardell, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, AHN-BC, served Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston for 35 years. She was the Director of the Women’s Health Care Tract and offered nurse practitioner services in the community including a school-based pregnancy clinic and homeless shelter for women. She taught at the master’s level, DNP students, and in the PhD program in the areas of practice, research, and theory. She was also an expert in integrative medicine’s energy-based therapies.
Education
德克萨斯女子大学,休斯顿,德克萨斯州
PhD in Nursing
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
MSN
St. John College, Cleveland, Ohio
BSN
Clinical/Research Focus
Dr. Wardell’s research areas of interest are in women’s health and alternative healing modalities, specifically touch therapies/biofield therapies. Her past research includes assessing reasons why abused women stay in relationship, women’s experience of menopause, developing partnerships, and military women's hygiene issues. She has also conducted translation research and collaboratively developed a pacifier for low birth weight infants, the WEE Thumbie which is marketed and sold internationally.
Publications
- Healing Touch: A Strategy for Acute Care Nurses' Stress Reduction
- Nurse-Driven Interventions for Improving ELBW Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
- Experience in Radical Remission: A Self Study and Framework
- Relationship Between Maternal COVID-19 Infection and In-Hospital Exclusive Breastfeeding for Term Newborns
- Changes in Breastfeeding Exclusivity and Satisfaction During the COVID-19 Pandemic