Debra Coleman
California Baptist University, USA
Biography
Debra Coleman 22 years in healthcare, she has practiced in a variety of settings ranging from medical-surgical to critical care. With a passion to learn, she has moved through the continuum of education and obtained her PhD in nursing in December 2016 from Azusa Pacific University. Her focus of research is on the transition process of nurses who sustained a personal loss and returned to bedside care. While most of the literature examines grief from the perspective of tending to the needs of their patients, her research begins to fill the gap of knowledge that exists to support nurses tasked with vigilantly monitoring patients within the framework of compassion while in personal grief. She has spoken at both local and international conferences to highlight the needs of nurses in grief. She currently holds a full-time faculty position at California Baptist University and is currently working on a book that captures her own grief experience.
Abstract
Abstract : The personal loss in nursing and the transition back to bedside practice