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Carol P. Germain, RN, EdD, FAAN
     

director, nursing program development
Office: 449 Armitage Hall
Phone: 856.225.6226
Email: carolg17@camden.rutgers.edu


education:
St. Clare Hospital School of Nursing, New York, NY
Seton Hall University, BSN, Nursing
St. John's University, Jamaica, NY, MSN, Medical-Surgical Nursing; education minor
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, EdD, Anthropology of Education
Rutgers University Summer School of Alcohol Studies (certificate)
Kennedy Institute of Bioethics, Georgetown University, Bioethics (certificate)
University of Florida, Gainesville, Phenomenological Research (certificate)

nursing specialty:
Adult Health and Illness

research interests:
Culture, health, illness and nursing; person's lived experiences of health related issues; qualitative paradigm research and methods (e.g., ethnography, grounded theory, phenomenology)

selected awards:
1969/78
elected Sigma Theta Tau International, the Honor Society of Nursing
Alpha Tau Chapter, Rutgers University, 1969;
Xi Chapter, University of Pennsylvania, 1978
1973
American Heart Association, Council on Cardiovascular Nursing
Outstanding Contribution to Cardiovascular Nursing
1979
Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN)
1980
M.A. (honoris causa), University of Pennsylvania
1983
Roll of Honor, New Jersey State Nurses Association
1989
Excellence in Nursing Research, New Jersey State Nurses Association
1999
Doctoral Student Organization (DSO) Faculty Award
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
2000
Hall of Honor (inaugural induction), Seton Hall University
2001
Emeritus Faculty, University of Pennsylvania

selected publications:

Smith, D. & Germain, C. (1975). Care of the Adult Patient (Medical-Surgical Nursing), 4th Ed., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott. (Spanish translation 1977).

Germain, C. (1979). Wakefield, MA: The Cancer Unit: An Ethnography. also, 1982 Aspen Systems Corporation.

Germain, C. (1980). Nursing the dying: Implications of Kubler-Ross staging theory. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 447 (Jan. 1980), The social meaning of death issue, 46-58.

Germain, C. (1985). Ethical considerations for the nurse ethnographer doing field research in clinical settings. In A. Carmi & S. Schneider (Eds.), Medicolegal library: Vol. 4, Nursing law and ethics. (pp.136-143), Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.  

Germain, C. (1986). Using literature to teach nursing. Journal of Nursing Education, 25(2), 84-86.

Germain.C. & Nemchik, R. (1988). Diabetes self-management and hospitalization. Image: Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 20, 74-78.

Bournaki, M.C. & Germain, C. (1993). Esthetic knowledge in family centered nursing care of hospitalized children. Advances in Nursing Science, 16(2), 81-89.

Germain, C. (1995). The shelter transition of battered women. In P. Munhall (Ed.). In Women's Experience, Vol. 1, (pp. 203-231.  New York: National League for Nursing Press.

Germain, C. (2001). Ethnography: The Method. In P. Munhall (Ed.) (3rd Ed.). Nursing research: A qualitative perspective, (pp. 277-306): Jones and Bartlett.

relevant program grant:

2009-2011. Robinson, J.P. & Germain, C. Planning and Development of an RN to MSN Program. Rutgers University Academic Excellence Fund (AEF).

selected presentations:

On Being a Scholar. Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing, Eta Mu Chapter of Rutgers University Camden- College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Nursing. 24th Annual Induction Ceremony. April 13, 2008 Williamstown, NJ.

Last modified August 18, 2011

   
Dr. Carol Germain
 
School of Nursing | 311 N 5th Street | 407 Armitage Hall | Camden, NJ 08102
Phone: 856-225-6226 | Fax: 856-225-6250 | Email: nursecam@camden.rutgers.edu