Suzanne Marnocha
Title:
Associate Professor/Undergraduate Program Director
Educational Background:
PhD University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
MSN University of Evansville IN
BSN University of Evansville IN
Diploma in nursing St. Elizabeth’s Hospital School of Nursing, Lafayette IN
Scholarly Interests:
Women’s health issue including psychological and physiological issues, safety and communication including student learning and transition to practice.
Stress and coping of women in various settings, programmatic changes improving learning.
Recent Publications/Presentations:
International
Marnocha, S. & Hanson, T. (2009). Military Wives' Adaptation and Coping with Deployment During Wartime. Journal of Military Medicine, in review.
Marnocha, S. & Marnocha M. (2009). Stress and Coping of Older female Spouses of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patients, Geriatric Nursing, in review.
Chappy, S., Jambunathan, J, & Marnocha, S. (2008). Evidence-based curricular strategies to enhance BSN graduates' transition into practice, Nurse Educator, accepted for publication.
Schmidt, B., Wurzbach, M. & Marnocha, S. (2008) Impact of Community Service Learning Projects on International Women’s experience of perimenopause and menopause”
Marnocha, S., Dempsey L. STTI Nursing Congress, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada. 2009
“Jambunathan, J., Chappy, S., & Marnocha, M. Curricular strategies for BSN graduates’ transition into practice: Evidence-based research”: Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India. “Research Report: Influence of stress and coping of older women whose spouse has undergone CABG surgery” and “Organizing an international research conference” and "Humanities Education during Med-Surg Clinical Experiences"
Three accepted presentations, Sigma Theta Tau International Convention,
Toronto, Canada 2003
“Influence of stress, cognitive appraisal, resilience, and social support
on coping of older women whose spouse has undergone CABG surgery”
Healthcare Professionals Dialoguing Globally and Culturally
Eta Pi International Research Conference, Chennai, India 2003
“Cardiovascular Update”, “Acute Care Nurse Practitioners”, and “Managing Acute Pain.” Multiple presentations and sites Chennai and New Delhi, India 2001
“Using Case Studies in Teaching Undergraduate Nursing Students”
Sixth International Middle East Nursing Conference, Irbid, Jordan 2000
National
“Innovations in teaching nursing research”. Poster presentation for the American
Association Colleges of Nursing conference San Antonio, Texas 2008
“Stress and Coping of older female spouses of CABG patients”. Poster 2008 presentation for the 15th annual Getting to the Heart of the Matter, Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota.
“The impact of perceived self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and social engagement in older adults”. Poster discussion. Nursing Research: at the crossroads of global health. 32nd. Midwest Nursing Research Society, Indianapolis, Indiana March 28-31, 2008.
"Poetry, writing and caregiving: Technique and theory", 39th National Meeting of the
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, San Francisco Ca 2006
“Influence of Stress, cognitive appraisal, resilience and social support of older women”
Midwest Nursing Research Society (MNRS) - St. Louis 2004
“Humanities Education: Family Practice and Nursing Experiences.” 24th Forum
for Behavioral Science in Family Medicine, Chicago, 2003
“Family Members Coping with Illness: Older Women and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.” 23rd Annual Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Conference on Families and Health, Kiawah Island 2003
“Using Case Studies in Undergraduate Medical Surgical Classes”.
American Association of the Colleges of Nursing (AACN), Chicago 2001
“Case Studies as a Teaching Method: Educating for the New Millennium”
Villanova and Rutgers Universities, Philadelphia, PA 1999
State & Regional’
“Maintaining patient safety: Improving clinical communication in clinical education settings”
WI League for Nurses convention, Waukesha, WI Podium presentation. 2009
“Simulation 101: Faculty education day. AACN 2009 Hot Issues Conference: Technology: Transforming Nursing Education. Jennifer Thyes, Suzanne Marnocha 2009
“Heart disease and women: Evidence-based prevention and treatment” invited podium presentation at the 23rd Annual WNA Pharmacology and Clinical Update, WI Dells 2009
“Innovations in teaching nursing research”. Poster presentation for the Eta Pi Research Day conference 2008
“Stress and Coping of older female spouses of CABG patients”. Poster Presentation for the Eta Pi Research Day conference. 2008
“Innovations in teaching nursing research”. Poster presentation for the Wisconsin 2008
League for nursing fall conference. "Cardiovascular Update Advanced Trauma Life Support and WI Paramedics" (Invited speaker twice) 2005-2006
" Cardiac Auscultation," Wisconsin Student Nurses Association Convention,
Dells, WI (Invited presentation) 2006
“Poetry, Writing & Personal Development.” (E. Kort, M. Marnocha & S. Marnocha)
Invited Workshop for Seven Rivers Psychological Association & UW-La Crosse. 2006
Wisconsin Student Nurses Association Convention, Green Bay, WI 2005
"Cardiovascular Assessment: From Inspection to Auscultation, Clinical Pearls
and Practical Approaches" (Invited presentation) 2005
Marnocha, M. and Marnocha, S. “Humanities and Health.” Invited address,
Biofeedback Society of Wisconsin annual conference, Elkhart Lake, 2004
“Being Helpful: Humanities and Health-Care.” Waupaca County
Older Adult Human Services Fall Retreat, Waupaca, 2003
“Case Studies as a Teaching Method with Undergraduate Students”
12th Annual Conference for Teachers of Nursing Practice, Madison, WI 2000
“Alzheimer's Disease Overview and Care” Invited speaker
State meeting, Wisconsin Insurance Underwriters Association, Oshkosh Hilton 1997
