Susan Foley Pierce, PhD, RN
School of Nursing
UNC - Chapel Hill

Contact Information:


547 Carrington Hall 
CB # 7460 
School of Nursing
UNC
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460
919-360-7793
EMail: spierce@email.unc.edu



Courses Education Research  Publications Honors and Awards

Courses

Nursing Ethics

Health Policy

Improving nursing practice: Application of concepts, theories and research

Research Interests

Bioethics: Decision-Making; particularly end-of-life decisions


Education

School of Education:
     Ph.D.
    Social Foundations: Philosophy/Ethics
    University of North Carolina
    Chapel Hill, N.C.
    minor: Higher Education Administration
Kennedy Center for Ethics
Certificate Bioethics
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
School of Business
Certificate of Academic Administration
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.
University of North Carolina
MSN
Medical-Surgical Nursing: CV, Pulmonary, Renal
U-Mass/Dartmouth
BS Nursing
Union Hospital
RN Diploma Nursing
Fall River, Massachusetts


Publications

Pierce, S. (2205).  Nursing is. . . Tar Heel Nurse. 67 (2) 3.
 
Pierce, S. (2005) . Reverse the Curse. Tar Heel Nurse. 67 (1) 3.
 
Pierce, S. ( 2004). We band of angels. Tar Heel Nurse. 66 (3) 3.
 
Pierce, S. (2004). It’s time to move on. Tar Heel Nurse. 66 (2) 3.
 
Pierce, S. (2004) Are you ready to roll? Tar Heel Nurse. 66 (1) 3.

Jarr, S. Pierce, S. (2001). “Nurses Speak Out About End-Of-Life Care”. Advance For Nurses.3(7) 21-22.

Pierce, Susan. Dalton, J. Duffey, M. (2001). “The Nurse’s Ethical obligation to relieve pain: Actualizing the moral mandate. Journal of Nursing Law.

Pierce, Susan. Duffey, Margery. (2000). “Living Wills: Conquering the ambiguity they create”. National Academies of Practice Forum. 2 (1), 35-39.

Pierce, Susan. (1999) “Allowing and assisting patients to die: The perspectives of oncology practitioners.” Journal of Advanced Nursing.  30 (3), 616-622.

Pierce, Susan. (1999). “Improving end-of-life care: Gathering suggestions from family members” Nursing Forum. 34 (2) 5-14.

Pierce, Susan. (1998). “Neonatal intensive care: Decision making in the face of prognostic uncertainty.” Nursing Clinics of  North America. 33 (2) 287-297.

Pierce, Susan. (1997). “A model for conceptualizing the moral dynamic in health care.” Nursing Ethics. 4(6), 483-495.

Pierce, Susan R. (1997). Nurse-Sensitive Health Care Outcomes in Acute Care Settings: An Integrative Analysis of the Literature. Journal of Nursing Care Quality 11 (4).

Pierce, Susan F. (1995). "Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing" Chapter 6 in Registered Nurse Self-Paced Nurse Refresher. Chapel Hill: UNC Extension Division Press.

Pierce, Susan & Luikart, Clark. (1996). Managed Care: Will The Health Care Needs of Rural Citizens be Met? The Journal of Nursing Administration.,26:4, 28-32.

Pierce, Susan F., Cynthia M. Freund, Lise Fondren, Clark Luikart. (June, 1991). "Nurses Employed in Non-Nursing Fields: Is Nursing Losing Its Best & Brightest?" JONA. 21,6:29-34.

Freund, C., P. Ulin, S. Pierce. (1990). "The Dialectic of Freedom and Accountability: Balancing the Faculty Workload". Nurse Educator. 15:3, 14-19.

Pierce, Susan F. (l989). "The Critical Care Nurse; An Ethicist By Trade." Critical Care Nursing Quarterly l2:3, 75-78.

Honors and Awards

Sigma Theta Tau - Alpha Alpha Chapter
Outstanding Service to AHEC Nursing Award
Recognition Award for Outstanding Service NC Center For Nursing
Annual Award for Innovation & Creativity in Correspondence Education

Memberships


American Nurses Association (ANA); Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics, 2002-2006
North Carolina (NCNA)President-Elect, 2001-2003; President 2004-2006
Hastings Center for Bioethics
North Carolina Center For Nursing, Advisory Council
Sigma Theta Tau, Alpha Alpha Chapter