My research asks how nurses recognize people under uncertainty: how institutions teach clinicians what to notice, how diagnoses and documentation can obscure whole persons, and how memory and narrative shape therapeutic communication.
I draw on nursing, psychology, bioethics, and the health humanities, using conceptual analysis, genealogy, integrative review, and cross-disciplinary evidence synthesis.
Research Areas
Recognition, uncertainty, and ethics in care
How symptoms, behavior, diagnoses, risk classifications, and documentation can come to stand in for whole persons, and what ethical responsibilities follow when certainty remains incomplete.
Nursing education and institutional culture
How punitive traditions, hidden curricula, professional hierarchies, and psychologically unsafe learning environments shape clinical judgment, belonging, and professional formation.
Memory, narrative, and therapeutic communication
Autobiographical memory as a mechanism through which people organize experience, construct identity, regulate emotion, and make more coherent accounts of their lives.