The UNMC College of Nursing and The Nebraska Medical Center will host Joanne Hickey, Ph.D., as its 15th Visiting Nurse Scholar, Oct. 28-29. Dr. Hickey is division head of acute and critical care and program director of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist programs at the University of Texas- Houston, School of Nursing.
Dr. Hickey’s career has been focused in acute/critical care neuroscience nursing as a practitioner, teacher, author, and researcher. She teaches in the advanced practice and acute care nurse practitioner programs and conducts outcomes research and studies on caregivers of stroke patients.
She developed the neuroscience tract in the acute care nurse practitioner programs at University of Texas-Houston and the neuroscience nurse fellowship program at Methodist Hospital in Houston, where she is the Scurlock Nurse Scholar. She also is a member of the stroke team there.
During her visit in Omaha, Dr. Hickey will make presentations on campus and in the community, as well as consult with UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center faculty, staff and students. Her lecture is titled, “Building a Clinical Research Trajectory as an N of One.” It will be from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. (CST) in the UNMC College of Nursing, Cooper Auditorium and will be broadcast live to: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Teachers College, Room 202; UNMC College of Nursing Kearney Division, Room 144W; and the UNMC College of Nursing West Nebraska Division, Room 205.
Dr. Hickey received her doctor degree from the University of Texas-Austin and her post-master’s certificate as a nurse practitioner from Duke University. She is certified as an acute care nurse practitioner from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and by the American Board of Neuroscience Nursing.
Before joining the University of Texas-Houston as professor of clinical nursing, Dr. Hickey developed and directed the acute care nurse practitioner program at Duke University and was attending nurse of neuroscience nursing. Her classic text, the Clinical Practice of Neurological and Neurosurgical Nursing, is in its fourth edition. She also is senior editor of the text, Advanced Practice Nursing, Changing Roles and Clinical Applications. She lectures nationally and internationally on topics in neuroscience nursing.