Ann Aschenbrenner
Adjunct Faculty
Education
  • Doctor of Philosophy
Programs Taught
  • Master of Business Administration & Master of Science in Nursing: Nursing Leadership in Health Care Systems
  • Master of Science in Nursing with an Emphasis in Health Care Quality & Patient Safety
  • Master of Science in Nursing with an Emphasis in Leadership in Health Care Systems
  • Master of Science in Nursing with an Emphasis in Nursing Education
  • Post-Master of Science in Nursing: Nursing Education Certificate
Classes
  • NUR-630: Performance Improvement and Quality in Health Care
  • NUR-646E: Nursing Education Seminar I
  • NUR-665E: Nursing Education Practicum
  • NUR-674: Leadership in Health Care Systems Practicum
Research Interests
  • Forgiveness and Media
  • The use of Assertion-Evidence presentations to promote student engagement and learning.
  • Relationships among civility, forgiveness, and personality characteristics in employed registered nurses
  • Civility training to promote more civil behaviors for nursing students and faculty, and nurses in practice
Publications
  • Aschenbrenner, A. P., Winters, J. M., & Belknap, R. A.. (2012). Integrative review: Parent perspectives on care of their child at the end of life.
  • Kopka, J., Aschenbrenner, A. P., & Reynolds, M. (2015). Helping students process a simulated death experience: Integration of the NLN ACE.S Evolving Case Study and the ELNEC Curriculum.
  • Kopka, J., Aschenbrenner, A. P., & Reynolds, M. (2016). Helping students process a simulated death experience: Integration of the NLN ACE.S Evolving Case Study and the ELNEC Curriculum.
  • Aschenbrenner, A. P., Hanson, L., Johnson, T. S., & Kelber, S. (2016). Nurses’ Own Birth Experiences Influence Labor Support Attitudes and Behaviors.
  • Olsen, J., Aschenbrenner, A., Merkel, R., Pehler, S. R., Sargent, L., & Sperstad, R.. (2020). A mixed methods systematic review of interventions to address incivility in nursing.
Licenses / Certificates
  • Certified Nurse Educator
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