Faculty and Staff Profile

Nancy Meehan

Educational Background

Ph.D. Nursing Research
The University of Texas, School of Nursing 1985

Postdoc Knowledge Engineering
University of Utah, College of Nursing 1990

M.S.N Medical-Surgical Nursing, Teaching
The University of Texas, School of Nursing 1981

B.S.N. Nursing
Medical University of South Carolina, School of Nursing 1978

Courses Taught

Computer Applications in Healthcare (3,0)
Honors Seminar I (1,0)
Research in Nursing (3,0)
Honors Research in Nursing (3,0)
Senior Honors I (2,0)
Senior Honors II (2,0)
Creative Inquiry
Nursing Informatics, graduate (3,0)
Instructional Technologies for Nursing Educators

Profile

I have over 25 years of expertise in nursing informatics and have worked on several projects with computer science faculty. I have a joint appointment with Human-Centered Computing (HCC) Division in the School of Computing. My role is to bridge the gap between nursing and technology. I teach nursing informatics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. I teach both undergraduate students (NURS 140 – Computer Applications in Healthcare) as well as graduate students (NURS 850 - Information and Control Systems for Nursing Leadership). I have also had four Nursing Informatics Interns. I demonstrated record of nursing informatics related publications and internal funding. I received external funding from AHRQ to assist in developing a pediatric virtual patient system.

Research Interests

Nursing Informatics
Electronic Health Records
Virtual Patients
eHealth
Fitbit
Makerspace
App Develpment

Research Publications

Moore, S., Holaday, B. Meehan, N. & Watt, P. (2015) Exploring mHealth as a New Route to Bridging the Nursing Theory-Practice Gap. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, 29(1), 38-52.

Pence, T.B., Dukes, L.C., Hodges, L.F. Meehan, N.K, & Johnson, A. (2014). An Eye Tracking Evaluation of a Virtual Pediatric Patient Training System for Nurses. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. (August 27-29, 2014, Boston, MA).

Dukes, L. C., Pence, T.B., Hodges, L.F., Meehan, N., & Johnson, A. (2013). SIDNIE: Scaffolded Interviews Developed by Nurses in Education. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. (March 19-22, 2013, Santa Monica, CA), pp. 395-405. (22% acceptance rate).

Pence, T.B., Dukes, L.C., Hodges, L.F., Meehan, N., & Johnson, A. (2013). The Effects of Interaction and Visual Fidelity on the Learning Outcomes of a Virtual Pediatric Patient Interview System. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, pp. 209-218.

Bloodworth, T., Cairco, L., McClendon, J., Hodges, L.F., Babu, S., Meehan, N., Johnson, A., and Ulinski, A. (2012). Initial Evaluation of a Virtual Pediatric Patient System. In proceedings of Carolina Women in Computing 2012 (CWIC 20120. Columbia, SC, February 17-18, 2012.

Johnson, A. E. & Meehan, N.K. (2012). Chapter 3: Faculty Preparation for Teaching Online. In Distance Education in Nursing (3rd edition). In K. H. Frith & D.J. Clark (Eds). New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Bloodworth, T., Cairco, L., McClendon, J., Dukes, P., Hodges, L., Meehan, N., Johnson, A., Babu, S. and Ulinski, A. (2011) Design and Usability of a Virtual Pediatric Patient System. In Proceedings of Carolina Women in Computing. Columbia, SC. February 17-18, 2012.