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FACULTY AND STAFF
Zepure Samawi
| Title: | Professor |
| Office: | Warde Academic Center |
| Phone: | 773-298-3214 |
| Email: | samawi@60654a.com |
| Department: | Nursing |
Education
Ph.D. in Nursing
Widener University
PgDip in Nursing Education
Bethlehem University
M.S. in Nursing
Arizona State University
B.S. in Nursing
Arab College of Medical Profession, Al-Quds University
Clinical Expertise
- Nurse manager, registered nurse labor and delivery
- Nurse manager, registered nurse neonatal intensive care
Research Interests
- Assessing critical thinking skills and dispositions of nursing students.
- Teaching concept mapping as a teaching and learning metacognitive tool.
- Using narrative pedagogy, journaling and storytelling.
- Developing community nursing health promotion activities.
- Flipped classroom and use of simulation PEWS tool.
- Assessing student learning in participation of study abroad courses (Italy and Turkey).
- Guiding faculty and students in the application process for the Fulbright Scholar Award.
- Curriculum development and evaluation.
- Child temperament.
- Nursing students interactive clinical labor experience in implementing non-pharmacological pain management technique, closing the theory to practice gap.
Teaching Areas
- Nursing care of children
- Maternity nursing
- Community nursing
- Mental health nursing
- Nursing research, undergraduate and graduate
- Nursing ethics
- Epidemiology
- Study abroad courses in nursing (Italy and Turkey)
- Professional nurse roles and concepts
Presentations/Publications/Productions
- The effect of concept mapping on critical thinking skills and dispositions of junior and senior baccalaureate nursing students [Doctoral dissertation]
- Child Temperament and Parent Responsivity [Graduate Thesis]