As a licensed family nurse practitioner, Dr. Cecile Evans worked at a number of
health care facilities in Tennessee and Colorado before earning her Ph.D. in Nursing from
the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Her doctoral dissertation was titled,
“Function and Pain in Community-Dwelling, Adult Mid-Southerners with Limb Loss". Dr.
Evans joined the faculty of Boise State University in 2010. She has been a professional
adviser for the Out on a Limb limb loss support group since 2005, and a member of several
professional organizations, including the American Diabetes Association and the American
Nursing Association.

Articles

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Phantom Limb Pain Awareness, Nurse Practitioners of Idaho (2011)
 

Book Review of Chronic Pain: An Integrated Biobehavioral Approach" by Herta Flor and Dennis Turk, Pain Management Nursing (2011)
 

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Stability of Temperature Asymmetries in Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Over Time and Changes in Pain (with Richard A. Sherman,; Kent W. Karstetter; and Melissa Damiano), Clinical Journal of Pain (1994)

Objective: To determine the clinical usefulness of skin temperature patterns for tracking reflex sympathetic dystrophy...

 

Popular Press

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Pain Management; A Primary Role in Nursing, MD Magazine: Pain Management (2011)
 

Presentations

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Self-Care Practices Reported to Alleviate Phantom Limb Pain, ASPMN (2011)
 

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Function and Pain in Adult Mid-Southerners with Limb Loss (with Veronica F. Engle), American Society for Pain Management Nursing (2009)

Purpose: To describe function, pain, health status, and demographic factors of Minority and Caucasian adult...

 

Student Mentored Scholarship

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Title Pain Quality Descriptors in Persons with Limb Loss (with Angelica I. Garcia) (2011)

Background: Phantom limb pain is very common, and its pain quality descriptors give insight to...