Barbara Mary Raudonis, PhD, APRN, BC
Associate Professor

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 #540, Pickard Hall

E-Mail address: raudonis@uta.edu

My love and passion for gerontological nursing and caring for the dying grew from the "seeds planted" during my first nursing position when I served in the Commission Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service at Fort Defiance Indian Hospital on the Navajo Indian Reservation. My graduate nursing education included a two year post-doctoral fellowship which is the foundation for the development of my program of research in palliative nursing. I love research and the challenges and opportunities of teaching nursing at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I am currently working with several graduate students on their master's completion projects! The opportunities in nursing are only limited by your imagination. Reading, Writing, collecting Southwestern and Native American art, travel, and nature are activities that I share and enjoy with my husband.

Research Interests

• Gerontological nursing
• Hospice and Palliative Care
• End-of-Life Issues

Current Research

• Health Outcomes of Bereaved Family Caregivers of Hospice Patients: A Pilot Study
• Hospital Based Palliative Care
• Effects of Symptom Combinations on Quality End of Life
• Older Adults' Use of Hospice Services in Texas

Special Achievements

• Distinguished Gerontological Nurse Researcher - SNRS and the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing - 2001
• School of Nursing nominee for Chancellor's Council Award for Excellence in Teaching - 2001
• Selected as one of the Great One Hundred Nurses for 1997

Teaching Responsibilities

• Nursing of Older Adults (N4361)
• Gerontological Nursing (N3222)
• Research in Nursing (N5301)

Education

Post-doctoral Fellowship	Institutional National Research Service Award: Research Training: Nursing Care of Older Persons - Oregon Health Sciences University, 1991-1993
PhD in Nursing	The University of Texas at Austin, 1991
MS in Medical-Surgical/Adult Health Nursing	University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1984
MS in Pathology	University of Maryland at Baltimore, 1978
BSN	The Catholic University of America, 1978
BA in Biology	The College of Notre Dame of Maryland, 1974