Rita Glazebrook , RNC, Ph.D., CNP
Professor of Nursing and Department Chair ; Director, Minnesota Intercollegiate Nursing Consortium

Specialty Area: Maternity nursing, leadership
Interests: Advanced practice, women's health, preterm birth prevention
Research: Adolescent contraceptive choices and compliance, Nurse practitioner management of sexually transmitted diseases
Recent Publication: Maternal Newborn Nursing Reviews and Rationales; The Neuman Systems Model in Cooperative Baccalaureate Nursing Education: The MINC Experience

Carol Austin, RN, MSN
Assistant Professor of Nursing

Specialty Area: Pediatric Nursing
Interests: Safety (employee/patient), perioperative nursing, management role for nursing
Research: Content validation of stress-provoked symptoms and illness checklist for school age children

Mary Beth Kuehn , RN, MSN
Instructor of Nursing

Specialty Area: Medical-surgical nursing, pharmacology, nutrition
Interests: Community based care delivery, Issues and trends
Research : Identification of Diabetic Patient and Learning Needs

Diana Neal , RN, MS
Assistant Professor of Nursing,
PhD Candidate U of M

Specialty Area: Pediatrics, Neonatal Intensive Care, Psychomotor nursing skills
Interests: Maternal-child health and education, tactile and music stimulation for preterm infants, technology in the classroom
Research: Caring behaviors during blood pressure measurement
Recent Publication: The High Risk Newborn (chapter in Pediatric Nursing Secrets and Perinatal Nursing Secrets )

Judith Sateren , RN, MS
Associate Professor of Nursing

Specialty Area: Psychiatric and mental health nursing
Interests: Communication and interpersonal relationships, family systems, family violence
Research: Post traumatic stress disorder related to Vietnam veterans and Bowen's multigenerational family systems approach

Other MINC Faculty

Other nursing faculty are based at:

Gustavus Adolphus College
800 College Avenue
St. Peter, MN 56082
(507) 933-6126
(507) 933-6153 FAX

Jane Coleman , RN, MS
Associate Professor of Nursing

Specialty Area: Public health, psychiatric nursing
Interests: Parish nursing, community based practice, environmental health, complementary therapies
Recent Publication: Lullaby and Not a Good Night

Judith M. Gardner , RN, MS
Associate Professor of Nursing and
Department Chair

Specialty Area: Maternity nursing, professional issues
Interests: Preconceptual education, ethical decision making, transcultural nursing
Research: Perinatal death support
Recent Publication: Perinatal Death: Uncovering the Needs of Midwives and Nurses and Exploring Helpful Interventions in the U.S.A., England and Japan, Journal of Transcultural Nursing, April 1999

Barbara L. Zust , RN, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Nursing

Specialty Area: Public health, domestic violence
Interests: Nursing theory and research
Research: Cognitive therapy, domestic violence
Recent Publication: Effect of Cognitive Therapy on Depression in Rural Battered Women , Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, April 2000

Paula D. Swiggum, RN, MS, CTN
Associate Professor of Nursing

Specialty Area: Pediatrics, transcultural nursing, psychomotor nursing skills
Interests: Cultural competence in nursing
Research: Caring behavior during blood pressure measurement
Recent Publication: Proposed Standards for Transcultural Nursing, Journal of Transcultural Nursing, January 2002; Cultural Care chapter included in Introduction to Community Based Nursing, R. Hunt, Lippincott, 2001; Nursing Interventions for Boundary Ambiguity, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing; Cultural Diversity in Care , the Cultural Assessment, Creative Nursing, 1995