Nurse Talks Empowerment Series: Building Cultural Competence in Undergraduate Nursing Students

Dr. JoAnn Long, Ph.D., RN, NEA-BC Related Seminars and Products

Director, Research & Development; Professor of Nursing

Lubbock Christian University

JoAnn's work as a nursing scientist has been focused on youth health promotion.  She has worked with interdisciplinary teams to developed interactive web-based approaches to teaching adolescents healthy eating and programs to interventions to strengthen adolescent moral development and spiritual self-efficacy.

As a nursing professor and educator, her interest in technology and teaching evidence-based practice and knowledge synthesis skills led their interdisciplinary team to develop and test the EBR Tool; an online web-based application designed to teach nursing students how to critically appraise the scientific literature.

JoAnn teaches graduate research, leadership and independent study courses to engage students in preliminary research projects. She enjoys working productively with her colleagues in intra-professional scientific teams; and especially mentoring students in the research process to enhance, extend, and maintain the health and wellbeing of people-her lifelong commitment as a nursing scientist.

She has mentored nursing and interdisciplinary students through projects presented at the National Council on Undergraduate Research and at Sigma Theta Tau International, Research Congress; and believes it is a privilege to walk alongside of students as a mentor and co-learner. For more than a decade she has guided students through the completion of research which has resulted in national and international presentations, co-authored publications and in some cases, advancement to scientific careers in nursing.

She is married to Dr. Jesse Long, a Professor of Old Testament and Archaeology.  They have two grown daughters and sons-in-law and three spirited grandsons.  They love to travel and especially enjoy taking others on international excursions.