Faculty - Sue Moorhead

• Standardized language development and use
• Job satisfaction
• Outcomes of care and effectiveness research 

Sue is an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing where she teaches a variety of courses in the undergraduate, RN-BSN, and graduate programs. Currently her teaching focuses on leadership at the Master's level and administration at the PhD level. Her nursing background began in the US Army Nurse Corps where she served for 29 years in both active duty and reserve positions. Most recently she completed assignments as chief nurse in the two US Army reserve hospitals in Iowa. Her research interests focus on the development and implementation of standardized nursing languages. She is an investigator on the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) team and developed many nursing interventions for this classification. She has served as the facilitator for the testing of this classification at the Genesis Medical Center in Davenport, Iowa for many years. Dr. Moorhead is a Co-PI on the current Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) research focusing on testing the measurement scales used in the classification. She has chaired the focus group on psychological/cognitive outcomes and has developed methods for mapping nonstandardized nursing data into standardized language using NIC and NOC. In addition she assists nurses attempting to add standardized languages in both practice and educational settings. She speaks both nationally and internationally on NIC & NOC. 

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