Francine Mancuso Parker, MSN, RN, EdD
Associate Professor
(334) 844-6759
parkefm@auburn.edu
Education
MSN University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1988
Ed.D Auburn University, 2004
Interests
Ethics, Leadership, Professional Image, End-of- Life
Teaching Areas
Professional Concepts, Leadership & Management, Ethics, Legal
Issues, Adult Health
Overview
Francine Parker received a BSN from Troy University Montgomery
in 1979 and master’s degree/CNS from the University of Alabama in
Birmingham in 1988. Her doctorate in the department of Educational Foundations,
Leadership and Technology at Auburn University was awarded in 2004. Dr.
Parker has served in a nursing faculty role for 17 years, twice receiving
the Irma Moore Faculty Excellence award as well as earning the designation
of Distinguished Teaching Fellow in her tenure at Auburn Montgomery. Since
transferring to Auburn University in 2006, Dr. Parker has been selected
the SGA Outstanding Nursing Faculty, 2008 & 2009. Currently, Dr. Parker
teaches leadership and professional concepts to the senior students and
serves as a preceptor advisor.
Dr. Parker’s recent research includes: a collaborative project with
industry and academia exploring nurse station environment and the impact
on stress and job satisfaction; ethical work environment and nurse stress
and job satisfaction; MSN graduate students’ process of change in
knowledge and attitudes using Mezirow’s Transformative Adult Learning
Theory and active living research in collaboration with faculty in the
college of architecture.
Presentations
“Building Teams: Fostering Collaboration and Creating a Healthy
Environment”. Vision to Action: Global Health through Collaboration.
Sigma Theta Tau International Biennial Convention. Baltimore, MD, November
4, 2007. Speaker
“What Nurse Leaders and Managers Can Learn From Geese”, UAB 3rd Annual Comprehensive Nursing Conference, Birmingham, AL, March 29, 2007. Speaker
“Making an Ethical Difference: One Nurse at a Time”, Plenary Speaker, Capture the Spirit of Nursing, Alabama State Nurses Association Annual Convention, September 29, 2006, Auburn, AL.
“Ethics and Nursing Leadership” & “Conflict Resolution, Elizabeth Morris Continuing Education Sessions FACES ’06. April, 2006
“Exploring the Meaning of Hope: A Phenomenological Case Study of
a Heart-Lung
Transplant Recipient, Collaborative Conversations Conference, Bournemouth
University, UK, September, 2003
“Quality Care at End of Life”, CE Workshop, AUM, September, 2002
“Legal and Ethical Issues at the End-of-Life”, Elizabeth
A. Morris Clinical Education
Sessions FACES 02, Montgomery, April 2002
Speaker, Ethics and Nursing Leadership, Elizabeth Morris Continuing Education Sessions- FACES ’06. April, 2006
Speaker, Conflict Resolution, Elizabeth Morris Continuing Education Sessions – FACES ’06, April, 2006.
Paper presentation, Exploring the Meaning of Hope: A Phenomenological
Case
Study of a Heart-Lung Transplant Recipient, Collaborative Conversations
Conference, Bournemouth University, UK, September, 2003
Invited Speaker, Quality Care at End of Life, Continuing Education workshop
AUM, September, 2002
Speaker, Legal and Ethical Issues at the End-of-Life, FACES 02, Elizabeth
A.
Morris Clinical Education Sessions, Montgomery, April 2002
Poster Presentation, From Boxes to Branches to Balance, Nursing Education Conference 2002, Orlando, Florida, January 2002
Speaker, Recognition of Codependency Behavioral Characteristics in Nursing
Students FACES 01, Montgomery, April 2001
Poster Presentation, Collaborative Approach to Meet Health Care Needs
in a
Rural Community, Creative Teaching for Nursing Educators, Memphis, Tennessee,
March 1999
Publications
Parker, F.M., Lazenby, R. & Bell, J. (2011). Mission Possible CD ROM:
Instructional tool for
preceptors. Nurse Education Today doi:10,1016/j.nedt.2011.09.009.
Parker, F.M. & Faulk, D. R. (2011). Leadership and management; public
policy, and legal &
ethical issues. In A. Morris (Ed.).Transformative learning in nursing:
A Guide for Nurse
Educators. In press.
Parker, F.M. & Sanderson, B. (2011). Diverse workforce: Opportunities and Challenges. In L.R. Roussel (Ed.), Management and leadership for nurse administrators. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
Parker, F. M. & McMillan, L. (2010). Less talk; more action: SBAR
as an interactive approach
for ethical decision making. Online Journal of Health Ethics, (6)2.
Faulk, D., Parker, F. & Morris, A. (2010). Reforming perspectives:
MSN graduates’ knowledge,
attitudes and awareness of self-transformation. International Journal
of Nursing Education
Scholarship, 7(1) Article 24, 1 – 15.
Gore, T., Hunt, C. W., Parker, F., & Raines, K. H. (2010). The effects
of simulated clinical
experiences on anxiety: Nursing students' perspectives. Clinical Simulation
in Nursing,
The Power of One”. Invited for Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, Ethics Column, Accepted June, 2007.
Faulk, D., Parker, F., Radney, M. (2005). Technology stagnate to technology literate. The Alabama Nurse, 32(4), 7.
Schutt, M. & Parker, F. (2006). Flu vaccination administration in
a junior holistic
assessment and senior professional concepts course. Manuscript accepted
for publication, January 20, 2006. Journal of Nursing Education.
Parker, F. M. & Faulk, D. R. (2004). Lights, camera, action: Using feature films to stimulate emancipatory learning in the RN to BSN student. Nurse Educator, 29(4), 144-146.
Parker, F., & Morris. (2004). Shared decision-making in nursing education. Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, 17(3)@http://www.nursing leadership.net/NL173LeFort.html
Parker, F., Faulk, D., & LoBello, S. (2003). Assessing codependency and family pathology in nursing students. Journal of Addictions Nursing, 14(2), 85-89.
Faulk, D., Mancuso, F., Lazenby, R .B., & Loden, D. (2000). Climbing the curriculum tree: A student and faculty perspective. The Korean Journal of Thinking & Problem Solving, 10, 33-39.
Mancuso, F., Faulk, D, Lazenby, R.B., & Loden, D. (2000). Assessing a student’s perception of a curriculum. Nurse Educator 25(6), 261.
Mancuso, F. (1998), Codependency in nursing students: Recognition and modification of behavioral characteristics. Nursing Connections 11(3), 55-60.
Faulk, D. & Mancuso, F. (1998). A collaborative effort for sex education in rural school settings. Nursing and Health Care Perspectives (6), 271-273.
Last Updated: Jan. 12, 2011
