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Priscilla Gazarian, Ph.D.,R.N.

Assistant Professor of Nursing
B.S.N. U. of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
M.S.N. U. of Massachusetts, Boston
Ph.D. U. of Massachuetts, Amherst
priscilla.gazarian@simmons.edu

Dr. Gazarian has been on the faculty since 2002. While completing her master's studies at the University of Massachusetts at Boston ,she was the recipient of an Academic Excellence Award for graduate nursing. She also was the recipient of a Goodman and Alexander Fellowship during her Ph.D. studies.

Priscilla teaches Medical-Surgical Nursing, Nursing Process and Skills, Nursing Research Seminar and The Health Care System an Interdisciplinary Perspective. She has presented on the use of clinical narratives in nursing education and continues to collaborate with teaching projects using narrative pedagogy. Priscilla was the recipient of the Early Career Teaching Award in 2005 presented by the Massachusetts Association of Colleges of Nursing. She was recently inducted as Faculty Councilor for the Theta at Large chapter of Sigma Theta Tau.

Priscilla is developing a program of research on nurse decision making. She has an appointment as a Nurse Scientist at the Center for Nursing Excellence at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. She has received funding from the Association of Critical Care Nurses/Medtronic to investigate nurse decision making in preventing in-hospital cardio-pulmonary arrests. She has also received funding from the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education and MONE to design and develop simulation scenarios centered on early recognition of patient deterioration. Priscilla has practiced as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and currently holds a position as Coordinator of Resuscitative Clinical Practice at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, Eastern Nursing Research Society and Sigma Theta Tau Theta Alpha and Theta at Large chapters.

Publications

  • Gazarian, P.K. (2006), Identifying risk factors for postoperative complications. AORN 84(4)

Presentations

  • Nurse Decision Making and the Prevention of Adverse Events, Umass Amherst, April 15, 2008
  • Nurse Decision Making and the Prevention of Adverse Events, Brigham and Women's Hospital, March 19, 2008
  • Clinical Faculty Development: Challenging Student Situations, Simmons College, Boston MA, May 14, 2007
  • Faculty Mentor, Diabetes and Depression, BSN Student Poster Presentation, 19th Annual Scientific Session, ENRS, Providence Rhode Island, April, 2007
  • The Experience of Being a Doctoral Student, Poster Presentation Twelfth Annual Conference for Nurse Educators in Practice Settings and Schools of Nursing, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, May 23, 2004

Awards

  • Goodman and Alexander Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2005
  • Early Career Teaching Award, Massachusetts Association of Colleges of Nursing.2005
  • American Association of Critical Care Nures/Medtonic Small Grant Award, 2006