Lori Ann Palmieri

Biography

Lori Ann Palmieri RN, PhD, CNE is a full-time nursing faculty member who teaches a broad range of undergraduate nursing courses, including Nursing Research, Nursing Management and Leadership, and Nursing Capstone. She also supervises and instructs students during their Community Health clinical rotations. In Nursing Capstone, Dr. Palmieri collaborates closely with senior nursing students to design and implement research or evidence-based practice projects that integrate scholarly inquiry with clinical relevance. Dr. Palmieri’s scholarly interests center on cultural competence in nursing practice. She completed her doctoral dissertation entitled “Exploring the Relationship Between Ethnocentrism, Perspective-Taking, and Cultural Competence in Medical-Surgical Nurses”. Additional research interests include palliative care knowledge in nursing students.

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Lori Ann has 20+ years experience as a medical-surgical nurse, followed by several years experience as a clinical nurse educator and assistant director of nursing before transitioning into nursing education at Bloomfield College in 2007. Since 2011 she has been interested in global health and volunteers with Intercultural Nursing Inc. https://www.interculturalnursing.org/ and Foundation for Peace https://www.foundationforpeace.org/overview/ to collaborate with community partners bringing health care and health education to underserved populations in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Kenya. She serves locally as a board member and grants committee co-chair with the Partners for Health Foundation https://partnersfdn.org/.

Exploring the Relationship Between Ethnocentrism, Perspective-Taking, and Cultural Competence in Medical-Surgical Nurses

This descriptive correlational study examined key influences on culturally competent care delivery among practicing nurses in the United States. Her work is grounded in established transcultural nursing theory and contributes to the growing body of research addressing health disparities and culturally congruent care. This research study explored the relationship between personal characteristics of nurses and their self-rated cultural competence skills.