Carolyn L. Cason, RN, PhD

Professor
Associate Dean for Research

The University of Texas at Arlington School of Nursing 411 S Nedderman Drive UTA Box 19407 Arlington, TX 76019-0407 Telephone: (817) 272-2776 FAX: (817) 272-5006

Office: 5th floor, Pickard Hall

As Associate Dean for Research and Director of the Center for Nursing Research, I provide a broad array of services that support faculty scholarship. In my role as Research Consultant, I provide similar services one day a week to nursing staff and administration at Parkland Health & Hospital System. As Associate, Center for Hispanic Students in Nursing and Health, I provide consultation on research sponsored by the Center.

My E-Mail address: clcason@uta.edu

Research Interests

• Outcomes research
• Evaluation of nursing care interventions
• Evaluation of patient education strategies and approaches

Current Research

• Pathways to Success - an abstinence education Program, Arlington Independent School District, funded by the Texas Department of Health.
• Partners in action for teen health - funded by the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs, Office of Population Affairs, US Public Health Service, DHHS.
• Medication adherence among indigent elderly ambulatory care patients.
• Health literacy: Reading and understanding prescription labels.

Special Achievements/Honors

• 2003 Honorary Alumnae, College of Nursing, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
• 2001 Great 100 Nurses, Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council and Texas Nurses' Association, District 4.
• 1996 AORN Journal Writer's Contest, Research Award, Association of Operating Room Nurses, Inc.
• Judith V. Braun Research Award, National Gerontological Nurses Society, 1996
• Nurse Scholar, HealthQuest HBO & Company, 1992
• Mary Opal Wolanin Award for Excellence in Gerontological Clinical Nursing Research, 1990
• American Nurses' Foundation Scholar, 1987
• Hemodynamic Monitoring Research Prize awarded by American Edwards Laboratories and American Association of Critical Care Nurses, 1983
• Honorable mention: American Institute for Research, Creative Talent Awards Program, 1972

Teaching

• Culture of Science
• Issues in Studying the Health of Culturally Diverse and Vulnerable Populations
• Research Seminar
• Dissertation Seminar
• Proposal Development Seminar
• Dissertation

Education

• PhD in Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 1972
• MSN with emphasis in Medical-Surgical Nursing, The University of Texas System, School of Nursing, Austin, December 1972
• BSN, University of Texas at Galveston, June 1968
• Diploma, Breckenridge Hospital, Austin, Texas, September 1965