Judy is an Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Nursing. She has her PhD from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, her MSN and BSN from the University of Pittsburgh, and her diploma from Presbyterian University Hospital School of Nursing. Her teaching assignment since she joined the SRU faculty full time is primarily in the RN-BSN completion program with such courses as Nursing Research, Managed Care and Financial Management for the Nursing Case Manager. She is involved on campus as a member of the IRB, the University Assessment Committee, and the CHES Research Committee.

Her research focus is related to the implementation and evaluation of Evidence-Based Decision Making in clinical settings for staff, Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) and managers. She assists hospitals that are seeking Magnet status with implementing and evaluating Evidence-Based Practice. 

Her work in Evidence-Based Decision Making has been recognized recently:

·   In 2007 she was asked to be a member of an Evidence-Based Management Collaboration that is being formed and sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business and the Heinz School of  Public Policy and Management, Pittsburgh, PA. The purpose of this collaborative is to close the gap between management research and the ways practitioners make managerial and organizational decisions and educators teach organizational behavior, theory, strategy and human resources management.

·   In 2006 her co-authored chapter in Hamric, Spross & Hanson was used as a guide for the development of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Essential of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice, specifically Essential #3: Clinical Scholarship and analytical Methods for Evidence-Based Practice.

·   In 2006 she was asked to be a sentinel reader for McMaster Online Rating of Evidence (MORE) for Evidence-Based Nursing (EBN). 

Her publishing and presenting has focused on Evidence-Based Decision Making: 

              · An evidence-based research column in Home Health Care Management and Practice journal.

              · In 2008 a revision of the Research Competencies chapter the APN text entitled:

                A.B. Hamric, J.A. Spross, & C.M. Hanson (eds.), 4th ed., Advanced nursing practice: An   

                integrative approach. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co.

              · Chapters related to Evidence-Based Practice in several oncology texts.

              ·  Keynotes recently at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL and Rocky Mt. University of the

                 Health Professions First Annual EBP conference in Provo, UT.

              ·  Workshops for faculty to convert their teaching to evidence-based

              ·  Workshops for managers to role model evidence-based decision making

She is in the process of developing a partnership with several academic/life coaches and this partnership will focus on assisting junior faculty with achieving promotion and tenure and doctoral students with completing their dissertations. 

Contact Judy at judith.depalma@sru.edu