Dr. Charmaine Kleiber is an Associate Professor in the Parent, Child and Family Area at the College of Nursing. Her BSN is from the University of Kansas and her MS in Maternal Child Nursing is from the University of Colorado. Dr. Kleiber completed her training as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and her PhD at the University of Iowa. Her clinical experiences include work in adult and pediatric intensive care, emergency care, and general care units. She has extensive experience in research utilization and moving evidence into practice. Her special research interest is in pain management. Dr. Kleiber has active research funding for studying postoperative pain in children and adolescents, and acute procedural pain in young children. She teaches courses in research, nursing issues, and clinical courses with an emphasis on critical care. PhD from the University of Iowa MS from the University of Colorado BSN from the University of Kansas
Articles
Evidence-based pediatric pain management in emergency departments of a rural state (with C. Jennissen, Ann Marie McCarthy, and T. Ansley), The Journal of Pain (2011)
Evidence-based pediatric pain management (EBPPM) has been identified as a practice too often overlooked in...
Salivary cortisol responsivity to an intravenous catheter insertion in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (with Ann Marie McCarthy, K. Hanrahan, L. M. Scott, N. Zemblidge, and M. B. Zimmerman), Journal of Pediatric Psychology (2011)
OBJECTIVE: To compare salivary cortisol baseline levels and responsivity as well as behavioral distress to...
Factors explaining children's responses to intravenous needle insertions (with Ann Marie McCarthy, K. Hanrahan, M. B. Zimmerman, N. Westhus, and S. Allen), Nursing Research (2010)
BACKGROUND: Previous research shows that numerous child, parent, and procedural variables affect children's distress responses...
Impact of parent-provided distraction on child responses to an IV insertion (with Ann Marie McCarthy, K. Hanrahan, M. B. Zimmerman, N. Westhus, and S. Allen), Children's Health Care (2010)
This study evaluates the impact of parent-provided distraction on children's responses (behavioral, physiological, parent, and...
Normative salivary cortisol values and responsivity in children (with Ann Marie McCarthy, K. Hanrahan, M. B. Zimmerman, S. Lutgendorf, and E. Tsalikian), Applied Nursing Research (2009)
This was a descriptive study on normative salivary cortisol values and responsivity to a hospital...