Curriculum Vitae. Maureen Donohue-Smith, Ph.D., RN

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1 Curriculum Vitae Maureen Donohue-Smith, Ph.D., RN EDUCATION: Pennsylvania State University B.A.; English Literature University of Pennsylvania B.S.; Nursing University of Colorado M.S.; Psychiatric Nursing Cornell University Ph.D.; Major Concentration: Developmental Psychology EXPERIENCE: July Present Title: Associate Professor, Elmira College, Elmira, New York Duties: September July 1994: Title: Minor Concentrations: Health and Hospital Administration Developmental Psychopathology Social and Personality Development Teach courses in Human Services, with special emphasis on family assessment, mental health and early childhood services. Other areas of responsibility include coordinating and supervising student field practica in a variety of community settings and serving as faculty advisor to individual students. Research Associate: SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Syracuse, N.Y. Duties: To provide general research support to the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine. Facilitation of research efforts includes participation in the development of new projects, identifying funding sources, consultation on research design, data collection instrumentation and methodology, and statistical analysis. April September 1993: Title: Extension Associate IV: Cornell University, Family Life Development Center, Ithaca, N.Y. Duties: To serve as Community Coordinator of a five-year, federally-funded project for the development of a system of coordinated, comprehensive, and community-based services for the prevention of

2 2 physical child abuse and neglect in Elmira, New York. A major goal of project activities was the facilitation of collaborative efforts among community agencies, institutions, and groups to support families under stress. Areas of particular emphasis were: child abuse and neglect resulting from substance abuse, development of new constituencies in the prevention of child abuse and neglect, and development of training models and programs for human service providers on working with high-risk families. In addition to community-based activities, this role involved drafting reports for the federal funding agency and assisting in formulation of program evaluation strategies. Dissemination of project activities was also accomplished through presentations at national conferences. April April 1990: Title: Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist; Willard Psychiatric Center, Willard, N.Y. Duties: To participate in case management for adult psychiatric inpatients as a member of an interdisciplinary treatment team. Responsibilities included providing clinical consultation to the nursing staff on patient care issues and conducting individual therapy with clients. December April 1988: Title: Clinical Consultant to Nursing Service; Willard Psychiatric Center, Willard, N.Y. Duties: To develop education and evaluation activities in the Department of Education and Training. Activities included developing a conceptual framework for the Department of Education and Training, designing an admissions nursing assessment instrument, and carrying out a pilot study of patients medication knowledge. July April 1988: Title: Instructor, Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: Elmira College, Elmira, N.Y. Duties: To integrate psychiatric and psychosocial concepts throughout the nursing curriculum. Responsibilities included classroom teaching, clinical supervision of students in a variety of outpatient and community settings, and participation in the Nursing Program and college-wide committees. July July 1988: Title: Psychiatric Nurse, Tompkins Community Hospital; Ithaca, N.Y. Duties: To serve as consultant to the Medical Director of the Psychiatric Unit during the start-up phase of the 13-bed psychiatric unit. This involved participating in the hiring of new staff, designing and

3 3 implementing orientation and training, and sharing with the Head Nurse the initial development of patient care policies and protocols for this new unit. After the initial start-up period, remained as an oncall staff nurse over a period of several years while completing doctoral work. September September 1980: Title: Instructor: Peter Bent Brigham Hospital School of Nursing: Boston, MA. Duties: Classroom and clinical instruction in Psychiatric Nursing. April June 1979: Title: Assistant Head Nurse: Bethesda Psychiatric Foundation; Denver, CO. Duties: To carry out administrative and clinical activities on a thirty-bed, adult and adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit. In addition to participation in the formulation of nursing policies as a member of the administrative nursing group, other responsibilities involved treatment planning, staff supervision and scheduling, and individual and group therapy. June April 1978: Title: Psychiatric Nurse: Psychiatric Emergency Service, Denver General Hospital: Denver, CO. Duties: To interview, evaluate and arrange dispositions for clients presenting in the emergency room of the city hospital for psychiatric assessment in consultation with the team psychiatrist. Crisis intervention was also provided by a twenty-four hour hotline for psychiatric emergencies. Referrals were made by the medical emergency-room staff, the ambulatory care clinic, self-referrals by patients, or by the police. Nursing consultations were also provided to medical or surgical units. June June 1977: Title: Psychiatric Nurse: Mt. Airy psychiatric Foundation; Denver, CO. Duties: Part-time employment during graduate school as both staff and charge nurse on a mixed adult/adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit. This position involved provision of general nursing care and treatment planning for patients requiring intensive psychiatric care.

4 4 PUBLICATIONS: Donohue-Smith, Maureen (November, 2006). Improving the questions students ask. Education Digest, 72 (3), p Donohue-Smith, Maureen. (April 7, 2006). There is such a thing as a stupid question. The Chronicle Review, Section B of The Chronicle of Higher Education, LII(31) B5. Donohue-Smith, Maureen. (2004). Sleeping with the Sober Cannibal: Human Services and the Liberal Arts Tradition. The Link, the Quarterly Newsletter of the National Association for Human Service Education. Donohue-Smith, Maureen. (Fall, 1996). Not Mr. Rogers neighborhood: challenges to effective neighboring among families at risk for child maltreatment. Proteus: a Journal of ideas, 13(2), Trief, Paula and Donohue-Smith, Maureen. (May, 1996). Counseling needs of women with breast cancer: what the women tell us. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing, 34 (5), RESEARCH AND EVALUATION ACTIVITIES: External Evaluator (2004 to present). Design and coordinate evaluation component of the newly implemented Chemung County Family Dependency Treatment Court and Misdemeanor Drug Court. Includes ongoing training with the multidisciplinary teams assigned to each court. External Evaluator: ( ). Elmira City Even Start Program. A Family Literacy partnership between the Elmira City School District and Economic Opportunity Program of Chemung and Schuyler Counties. Evaluation consultant to this family literacy program to support local evaluation activities. Four year-project, begun Presently in the third year as local evaluator. Process Evaluator: ( ). New York State Office of Mental Health and Tompkins County Mental Health Association. Co-investigator responsible for process evaluation of a demonstration project funded by the National Institute for Mental Health. This project was developed to test the efficacy of a community-based crisis hostel as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization. New York State Office of Mental Health, Central Region. (1994). Seasonality of Admissions to Children and Youth Psychiatric Facilities. Report of a survey of parents, Educators, and mental health providers on the factors contributing to seasonal variations in patterns of psychiatric hospitalization in children

5 5 Chemung County Youth Bureau. (1991). PINS Petitions in Chemung County: Family Characteristics. Completed for Juvenile Justice Project Committee, Chemung County. Cornell University. Beyond the Presenting Complaint: The role of patient distress in Medical care visits. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. May, Cornell University, Family Life Development Center. Provision of Services to Migrant Farmworker Families. May, SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS: NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. (2008). Can you hear me now? Keeping threats to validity from muffling assessment messages? Presentation at the International Institute on Recruitment and Retention. Scottsdale, Arizona. Society for Research on Child Development. (2007). When Art Fails to Imitate Life: Evaluating Bibliotherapeutic Resources for Child Maltreatment. Poster Session presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, March 28-April 1. Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (2006). Yes, No, Maybe So: Does the Opportunity to Explain Answers to T/F Questions Improve Student Test Scores? Poster presentation at the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida. Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (2005). Co-leader of participant exchange panel on the topic: Who am I? Who are you? What are we doing here? Teachers reflect on teaching. National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida. National Organization of Human Service Education (2003). Sleeping with the Sober Cannibal: Human Services and the Liberal Arts Tradition paper presented at the National Association of Human Service Education. National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology (2003). Huck Finn in Foster Care: Content Analysis as a Teaching Evaluation Strategy. Poster presentation. National Mental Health Consumer's Conference (2001). Presentation summarizing process evaluation findings from a crisis hostel demonstration project sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health.

6 6 National Organization for Human Service Education. (2000). "A Site of Our Own: the Internet as a Tool for Promoting Professional Development among Human Services Students" was presented with Lauren Furey '00 at the National Organization of Human Service Educators Conference in Denver, Colorado, October 17-20, New York District #3 Nurses Association Meeting (1999). Invited speaker. Topic: Violence among Youth: an Ecological Perspective. Center for Mark Twain Studies. (1999). Presentation entitled, Failed Families and the Crisis of Connectedness in Huckleberry Finn. For the Spring lecture series, The Trouble Begins at Eight. New York State English Association Conference. (Spring, 1998). Paper presented Entitled Assessing the Impact of Immigration on Family Processes: Examples from Long Day s Journey into Night and Angela s Ashes. District #3 Nurses Association. Invited Speaker. Topic: Violence Among Youth: An Ecological Perspective. Annual meeting. (1998). New York State English Association Conference. (Fall, 1998). Paper presented entitled The Literary Journey and the Life Course: Using fiction as case study in the Social Sciences. Eleventh International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect. (August 1996). Paper presentation, Assessing Parenting Needs of High Risk Families: Methodological Concerns and Alternative Approaches. ). Dublin, Ireland, Eleventh International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect. (August, 1996). August Interactive Poster Session entitled, Child Abuse in Fact and Fiction: Evaluating Children s Literature for Use in Bibliotherapy. Dublin, Ireland, National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN). (April 14, 1993). Emergency Services Grantees Meeting. Invited address: Interagency Collaboration in Community-Based Prevention Efforts. Washington, D.C. Ninth International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect. (August 31, 1992). Presentation: Mobilizing Untapped Community Resources: Identifying New Constituencies in the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect." Chicago, Illinois. Cornell Cooperative Extension Conference: Parent Education for Families With Limited Resources. (June 24, 1992). Presentation, Surveying High-Risk Families Regarding Parenting Education Needs." Ithaca, N.Y.