Karen Willette-Murphy

Karen Willette–Murphy

Professor of Nursing

Educational Background

• Postdoctoral Fellowship Symptoms Management, University of California, San Francisco
• Ph.D. Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center
• MA Nursing, University of Iowa
• BS Nursing, School of Nursing, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Teaching Areas

• Clinical Scholarship (DNP Program)
• Organizational and Systems Leadership
• Nursing Perspectives of Leadership and Management
• Nursing Theory and Research
• Nursing Synthesis Clinical

Health Care Interests

• I have enjoyed working with patients and families in the medical/surgical, critical care, school nursing and community health settings

Research Interests

• Sleep Research
• Women's Health
• Care of the Elderly

Current Projects

• Current Research Project:
  • Exercise as an Intervention to Enhance Sleep and Reduce Fatigue in Women
• Organizations:
  • International Society for Quality of Life Research
  • Upper Midwest Sleep Society
  • Sleep Research Society
  • American Academy of Sleep Medicine
  • Sigma Theta Tau International, Mu Lambda Chapter, MN State University, Mankato

Recent Publications

• Willette–Murphy, K., Todero, C., Yeaworth, R. (2006). Mental Health and Sleep of Older Wife Caregivers for Spouses with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders. Issues in Mental Health Nursing. 27 (8) 837-852.
• Ronstad, A., & Willette–Murphy, K. (2004). Fatigue of Staff Nurses Working in the Hospital Setting Journal of Sleep and Sleep Disorders Research: Sleep, 27, 417.

Grants

• Faculty Research Grant, 2006
• Faculty Research Incentive Grant, 2006