Elaine Parker, PhD, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Nursing. Dr. Parker has served as a member of the master’s and PhD faculties at UMASS Graduate School of Nursing since 2001. She is a leader in developing distance or online education at the graduate school of nursing. She served for five years as the coordinator of the Nurse Educator specialty program. Dr. Parker is an active member of the Worcester Nursing Pipeline Consortium working to advance clinical and academic nurse educator roles in the Worcester region. Her research interests include technology in nursing education, distance learning , nursing faculty shortage, faculty and clinical educator development. Dr. Parker has over twenty years of experience as a director of education and nursing staff development in the acute care hospital setting. Dr. Parker is retired from the United States Army Nurse Corps (Reserves). She holds the rank of Colonel (Ret.) and served as a member of the Advisory Council [AC] for the Triservice Military Nursing Research Program.
Articles
Flexible Online Learning Options for Graduate Nursing Students (with Maureen E. Wassef), Nurse Educator (2010)
Students juggle multiple roles and expect faculty to accommodate their hectic schedules. By increasing our...
Strategies to manage the time demands of online teaching (with Lois C. Howland), Nurse educator (2006)
The time demands of online teaching may discourage nurse educators from developing distance learning courses....
Interdisciplinary collaboration: an effective approach for developing web-based courses (with Lyn Riza, Shirley Tierney, and Andrea M. Barrett), Computers, informatics, nursing : CIN (2005)
Nursing faculty often perceive that developing Web-based distance education courses is very time consuming, while...
Integrating patient teaching into bedside patient care: a participant-observation study of hospital nurses, Patient education and counseling (2002)
Today's patients are quickly discharged from hospitals and often continue complex treatments at home. Patient...
Making the transition to a hospital-wide department of education: strategies for success (with Raymond F. Thurber and Marilyn E. Asselin), Journal for nurses in staff development : JNSD : official journal of the National Nursing Staff Development Organization (2001)
In today's healthcare environment, staff development specialists have experienced a shift from a nursing-focused approach...
Presentations and Posters
Increasing Flexibility for Adult Learners: Merging a Hybrid Course with a Fully Online Course (with Maureen E. Wassef), GSN Publications and Presentations (2009)
The objectives of this presentation are to:
1. Examine the processes and outcomes of a...
Redesigning Web-Based Courses for Nurse Educators. Fully Online? Hybrid? (with Maureen E. Wassef and Judith Abbate), GSN Publications and Presentations (2009)
Background:
Schools of nursing are experiencing faculty shortages which limit student admissions. The additional...
Enhancing Active Collaborative Classroom Learning with Tablet PC Technology, GSN Publications and Presentations (2008)
This research study had two aims:
Aim 1: Describe graduate student and faculty perceptions of...