Faculty Sketch

Betsy B. Kennedy, PhD, RN, CNE

Associate Professor of Nursing
Faculty Development Coordinator
betsy.kennedy@vanderbilt.edu

 

Current Research/Scholarly/Clinical Activity

• Nurse faculty mentoring in orientation and development programs.
• Nursing education research, technology in the classroom and evidence based andragogy
• Qualitative methodologies
• High risk and critical care obstetrics, maternal mortality

 

Grants

Kennedy, B. (2011). Developental Networks for Mentoring of Nurse Faculty: Connections that Count. Naltional League for Nursing.

 

Representative Publications

Kennedy, B. B., Harvey, C. G., & Saade, G. R. (2012). Acute Renal Failure in Pregnancy. In High Risk and Critical Care: Intrapartum Nursing. (3rd ed.). (Troiano, Harvey & Chez, eds.) Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

 

Ruth, D. J. & Kennedy, B. B. (2011). Acute Volume Resuscitation Following Obstetric Hemorrhage. Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing 25(3), 253-260.

 

Inott, T. J. & Kennedy, B. B. (2011). Assessing Learning Styles: Practical Tips for Patient Education. Nursing Clinics of North America, 46(3), 313-320.

 

Kennedy, B. B., Ruth, D. J., & Martin, E. J. (Eds.). (2008). Intrapartum Management Modules: A Perinatal Education Program. (4th ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

 

Kennedy, B. B., Baird, S. M. & Troiano, N. H. (2008). Burn injuries during pregnancy. Journal  of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing, 22(1),20-29.

 

Baird, S. M., & Kennedy, B. B. (2006). Myocardial infarction in pregnancy. Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing, 20(4), 311-321.

 

Professional Organizations

• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
• The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nursing
• Tennessee Nurses Association
• American Nurses Association
• Southern Nursing Research Society
• International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning