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NWU Home   ›   Dr. Linda K. Hardy

Dr. Linda K. Hardy

Faculty/Staff profile

Assistant Professor, Nursing
Phone: 
(402) 465-2416
Email: 
lhardy@nebrwesleyan.edu
Office: 
Burt Hall 313
Office hours: 

Varies. Please call for appointment.

Background: 

R.N. with experience in Labor & Delivery, ED, LTC, Management, Community, & School Nursing
Childbirth Education since 1977; American Red Cross CPR/AED instructor; American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor (WSI)

Education: 

1976-Diploma-Bryan School of Nursing-Valedictorian
2001-BSN-Nebraska Wesleyan University
2003-MSN-Nebraska Wesleyan University
2011-PhD in Nursing Education-University of Northern Colorado

Teaching philosophy: 

Learner-centered utilizing the principles of adult education.

Courses taught: 

NURS 201/501-Professional Communication in Nursing
NURS 204-Global Women's Health
NURS 231-Nursing Theories
NURS 236-Introduction to Nursing Research & Evidence-based Practice
NURS 250-Population Based Nursing Practice
NURS 296-Special Projects
NURS 510-Transcultural Nursing
NURS 515-Concepts & Theories
NURS 599-Major Projects

Research and academic interests: 

Winner Announced! Karen Rendulic Ourada, a NWU nursing program graduate, was the winner of the $200 prize drawing for participation in my dissertation research project. Congratulations to Karen and thank you to all RNs who took the time to be a part of my research!

Results of Dissertation Research: ABSTRACT-Racism has been implicated as one of the causes of health disparities in non-White population groups in the United States. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe cultural competence and racist attitudes of direct patient care registered nurses (DPC RNs) in a Midwestern state. The researcher hypothesized that racist attitudes impacted cultural competence, compromised the nurse-patient interaction, and potentially led to less than optimal patient outcomes.
Critical Social Theory and Leininger’s Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality served as the framework for this quantitative, descriptive correlational dissertation research. Cultural competence was measured with the Cultural Competence Assessment (CCA) instrument and racist attitudes were measured with two subscales of the Quick Discrimination Index (QDI). These instruments, with the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale-C, were administered to participants using Survey Monkey, a secure, web-based survey site.
Results suggest that DPC RNs in this sample possess a less than optimal level of cultural competence and that racist attitudes are present at a level that requires acknowledgement and attention by the discipline of nursing, particularly nursing education. Further, as age of the RN increased, cultural competence increased as did racist attitudes. These older RNs displayed cultural competence but with underlying racist attitudes. Cultural competence education alone has not addressed the issue of racism in nursing. Results demonstrated a weak correlation between cultural competence and racist attitudes: over the complete sample of RNs, as cultural competence increased, racist attitudes decreased. This finding implies that cultural competence education has some impact on racist attitudes but not at the level necessary to eliminate racism in nursing.
Nurse educators in the academic setting are encouraged to facilitate curricular changes based upon the principles of social justice. This includes all types of discrimination but with a focus on racism--individual, cultural, and institutional--in particular. Nurse educators in the practice setting are called upon to consistently and intentionally include racism and antiracism content in the required continuing education offerings related to cultural competence and transcultural nursing.

RESEARCH:
Subtle Cues as Triggers for Nursing Intuition
Development of the Online Learning Experience
Pregnancy and Birth Practices of Vietnamese Women in a Midwestern City
Dissertation Research Project: Cultural Competence and Social Attitudes of Direct Patient Care RNs in a Midwestern State
PUBLICATIONS:
Hardy, L. (2003, September). Informed consent: adolescent minors, surrogate decision-making, and the school nurse. School Nurse News, 20, 28-31.
Hardy, L. (2004, March). Asthma screening: A Research utilization project. School Nurse News, 21, 24-27.
Hardy, L. (2007). Exploration of the concept of Race and implications for health disparities research. Journal of Theory Construction and Testing, 11(2), 46-49.

Service interests: 

NWU: Assessment Committee-University College representative
Technology Committee-ad hoc
CLA-CIC Workgroup

Personal: Teach American Red Cross Swimming Lessons

Professional and community affiliations, certifications and awards: 

Certified Nurse Educator (CNE) by National League for Nursing-April 23, 2009
Certified Transcultural Nurse-Advanced (CTN-A) by The Transcultural Nursing Society-July 23, 2009
Recipient of the District III-Nebraska Nurses Association Graduate Scholarship-2009
Recipient of 2003 Professional Development Award, Bryan Memorial Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae
Recipient of the STT Nu Rho Scholarship-2006
Recipient of the STT Nu Rho Research Grant-2011
Member Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing, 2001-present
First Counselor and Board Member, Nu Rho-at-Large Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, June, 2005 to
June, 2009; President-Elect-June, 2009 to June, 2011; President-July 1, 2011-Present.
Member American and Nebraska Nurses Association (NNA)-Served as Delegate at the State NNA convention: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and elected for 2011.
Member Midwest Nursing Research Society
Member Transcultural Nursing Society
Member Golden Key International Honor Society-November 2008
Past member Nebraska and National School Nurse Association


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