Faculty Sketch
Colleen Conway-Welch, PhD, RN, FAAN
Nancy & Hilliard Travis Professor of Nursing
Dean, School of Nursing colleen.conway-welch@vanderbilt.edu
Areas of Research/Scholarly Activity:
- Nursing education & administration
- Healthcare reform
- Workforce/workplace systems re-design
- Disaster management
Current Research/Scholarly Projects:
| 2005- | Member, Governor's Citizen Advisory Group on Ethics in Government |
| 2004- | Steering Committee, The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute |
| 2002- | Member, Working group, Secretary's Advisory Council for Public Health Preparedness/Academic Health Centers |
| 2001- | Member, Tennessee State Bioterrorism Advisory Committee |
| 2001- | Founding Director, International Nursing Coalition for Mass Casualty Education |
Representative Publications:
Conway-Welch, C. (2006). The power of political contributions. In W.B. Saunders (eds.), Policy and Politics in Nursing Care. (5th ed). Montgomery Village: W.B. Saunders/Elsevier.
Conway-Welch, C. (2005). The Bush administration's record on nursing issues. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice. 6 (2), 1-4.
Conway-Welch, C., Rasch, R., Dubree, M., & Jones, S. (2005). Multicultural Medicine and Health Disparities, Chapter 27: Patient Management Disparities in Nursing. (pp. 427-435), Illinois: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Conway-Welch, C. (2004). Diversity by design. Profiles in Diversity Journal, 6 (2), 24-26.
Conway-Welch, C. (2002). Nurses and mass casualty management: Filling an educational gap. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 3(4), 289-293.
Conway-Welch, C., & Stephens, V. (2002). The international nursing coalition on mass casualty education. In Policy & Politics in Nursing & Health Care. (4th ed., pp.135-140.) Montgomery Village: W.B. Saunders/Elsevier.
Conway-Welch, C. (2002). The nursing shortage. HealthLeaders, 5 (3), 22.
Chaffee, M., Conway-Welch, C., & Stephens, V. (2001). Bioterrorism in the United States: Take it seriously. American Journal of Nursing, 11(11).
Chaffee, M., Conway-Welch, C., & Sabatier, K. (2001). Nursing leaders plan to educate nurses about response to mass casualty events. The American Nurse, 33(4).
Conway-Welch, C. (2001). Medicare: Visions for reform. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 2(2), 95-97.
Conway-Welch, C. (2000). Collaborative education to improve public safety. Report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Congress. Joint Meeting - Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) and The National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice (NACNEP), U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, Dept of Health Resources & Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions, Division of Nursing, Division of Medicine & Dentistry (Invited paper).
Conway-Welch, C., & Nixon, B. (2000) Tennessee: The TennCare crisis. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice. 1(3), 210-212.