I am a Professor of Community Health Nursing in the Schools of Nursing and Public Health. I was raised in rural Iowa and schooled in nursing (St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota), public health nursing (University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis), and sociology (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland). Two themes in my research and teaching reflect these “roots.” I am committed to:

*Improving the public’s health, particularly to reaching and serving traditionally underserved populations living in rural areas and inner cities of the US and developing countries.

*Using evidence-based nursing interventions and innovative teaching strategies to better prepare health professionals, especially nurses,  to improve the public’s health. 

I have taught undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students in nursing, public health and community psychology, in classroom and community settings. My research has focused on creating interventions with community residents who have chronic diseases to improve both their health outcomes and the health resources of their communities. 

N94, Community Health Nursing, Spring, 1999

Participatory Reasearch: An Innovative Approach to Service Learning, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Fall 2000 

Community-based intervention

Goeppinger, J., & Lorig, K. (1997). Interventions to reduce the impact of chronic disease: Community-based arthritis patient education. In J. Fitzpatrick and J. Norbeck (Eds), Annual review of nursing research, 15 (pp. 101-122). New York, NY: Springer.

Goeppinger, J. (1993). Health promotion for rural populations: Partnership interventions. Family and Community Health, 16, 1-10.

Brunk, S.E., & Goeppinger, J. (1990). Process evaluation: Assessing reinvention of community-based interventions. Evaluation and the Health Professions, 13, 186-203.

Goeppinger, J., Arthur, M.W., Baglioni, A.J., Jr., Brunk, S.E. & Brunner, C.M. (1989). A re-examination of the effectiveness of self-care education for persons with arthritis. Arthritis and Rheumatism, 32, 706-716.

Cook, H., Goeppinger, J., Brunk, S.E., Price, L., Sauter, S., & Whitehead, T. (1988). A re-examination of community involvement in health: Lessons learned from three community health projects. Family and Community Health, 11, 1-13.

Goeppinger, J. (1988). Challenges in assessing the impact of nursing services: A community perspective. Public Health Nursing, 5, 241-245.

Chronic Disease/Self-Care

Goeppinger, J., & Lorig, K. (1997). Interventions to reduce the impact of chronic disease: Community-based arthritis patient education. In J. Fitzpatrick and J. Norbeck (Eds), Annual review of nursing research, 15, (pp. 101-122). New York, NY: Springer.

Goeppinger, J., & Lorig, K. (1996). What we know about what works: One rationale, two models, three theories. In K. Lorig & Associates (Eds.), Patient education, a practical approach (2nd ed., pp. 195-226). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Goeppinger, J., Macnee, C.L., Anderson, M.K., Boutaugh, M., & Stewart, K. (1995). From research to practice: The effects of a jointly sponsored dissemination of an arthritis self-care nursing intervention. Applied Nursing Research, 8, 106-113.

Goeppinger, J., Macnee, C., Wilson, S., & Boutaugh, M. (1995). Continued examination of the effects of arthritis self-care intervention (Tech. Rep. No.2). Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, School of Nursing. 

Macnee, C.L., & Goeppinger, J. (1994). Prevention: Adults with chronic disease. In L. Joel & R. Knollmueller (Eds.), Prevention across the lifespan: Healthy people for the 21st century (pp. 63-70). Washington, D.C.: American Nurses Association.

Education for Community Practice

Goeppinger, J. (1996). The renaissance of primary care: An opportunity for nursing. In J.V. Hickey, R.M. Ouimette, & L. Venegoni (Eds.), Nurse practitioners: Moving into the 21st century (pp. 63-73). Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company.

Goeppinger, J., Lecturer, The Business of the Nurse Practitioner. Workshop presented at the 19th Community and Public Health Nursing Conference. The Cutting Edge: Innovative Approaches to Community and Public Health Nursing. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 21, 1996. 

Kulbok, P.A., Laffrey, S.C., & Goeppinger, J. (1996). Community health promotion: A multilevel framework for practice. In M. Stanhope & J. Lancaster (Eds.), Community health nursing: Process and practice for promoting health (4th ed., pp. 265-285). St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

Shuster, G., & Goeppinger, J. (1996). Community as client: Using the nursing process to promote health. In M. Stanhope & J. Lancaster (Eds.), Community health nursing: Process and practice for promoting health (4th ed., pp. 289-314). St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

Distance-Learning

Goeppinger, J., & Kolosna, B. (1998). Evaluation Report On "Postmaster’s FNP Education in Western North Carolina Project." Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, School of Nursing.

Kolosna, B., & Goeppinger, J.  (1998).  Evaluation of "Postmasters Family Nurse Practitioner Education at UNC-Chapel Hill."  Chapel Hill, North Carolina:  University of North Carolina, School of Nursing.