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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 in a multi-year contract lecturer position. She will be starting her new position as Assistant Professor of Nursing this summer. 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 written a chapter on Spirituality for Rehabilitation Nursing, by Shirley Hoeman, published in 2008.. Darlene is a co-author of the published textbook (1998) Rehabilitation Nursing Practice. This fulfilled her goal of publishing a textbook for students on rehabilitation nursing. Professional involvement includes serving as past Secretary-Treasurer and Regional Director for the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses, Past President / Board member of the Nursing Alumni Association at CSULA, and past President and Board member of the Nu Mu Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, International Honor Society of Nursing. Darlene received the Educator Role Award from the Association of Rehabilitation Nursing in 2002. Darlene is currently a PhD candidate in Nursing at the University of San Diego. She will be graduating in May 2010.. Darlene's dissertation topic is the relationship of spiritual well-being and quality of life for persons living with paraplegia.
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 affect a patient's recovery and outcome. She hopes to take this further by conducting additional research, looking at the use of spiritual interventions with patients, post her PhD, possibly writing a book on spirituality and illness. Darlene would also like to do research in the areas of incontinence and pressure ulcer incidence and management with the spinal cord injury population. Representative Professional Activities: Reviewer for Rehabilitation Nursing Journal for the previous seven years. Darlene is also a parish nurse at her local church and a certified rehabilitation nurse.
MS Nursing Education 1990
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