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School of Health and Human Services
School of Nursing Darlene Finocchiaro
Office: ST 307
Darlene Finocchiaro has been a lecturer at Cal State LA since 1990. She has been a full time faculty member since 1997, previously on a 1 -year contract and currently on a third multi-year contract. Rehabilitation, Spirituality and Medical Surgical nursing are Darlene's area of expertise. Darlene was a staff nurse at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey CA for 10 years, caring mostly for Spinal Cord Injury patients.Darlene has just completed a chapter on Spirituality for Rehabilitation Nursing, by Shirley Hoeman, to be published in August 2007. Darlene is a co-author of the published textbook (1998) Rehabilitation Nursing Practice. This fulfilled her goal of having a textbook for students on rehabilitation nursing. Professional involvement includes serving as Secretary-Treasurer for the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses and Past President / Board member of the Nursing Alumni Association at CSULA. Darlene received the Educator Role Award from the Association of Rehabilitation Nursing in 2002. Darlene is currently enrolled in the doctoral program for nursing at the University of San Diego and plans to graduate in December 2008. Darlene's dissertation topic is the relationship of spirituality and quality of life for the paraplegic post injury.
Darlene re-developed the nursing elective course "Assessment and Care of the Patient's Spiritual needs", (N480),which is offered during the Winter quarters. Darlene strongly feels that addressing a patient's spiritual needs during an illness can greatly effect a patient's recovery and outcome. She hopes to take this further by conducting research from it, expanding on it while working on a PhD in Nursing, and possibly writing a book on spirituality and illness. Representative Professional Activities: Reviewer for Rehabilitation Nursing Journal for the previous five years. Darlene is also a parish nurse at her local church and a certified rehabilitation nurse.
MS Nursing Education 1990
 Cal State LA
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