Contact:
 

mburman@uwyo.edu
(307) 766-3903

• Awards & Honors

• Degrees Earned

• Faculty Expertise/Interest Areas in Research

• Grants & Funding

• Professional Experience

• Professional Licensure & Certification

• Professional Memberships

• Significant Presentations

• Significant Publications

Degrees Earned:

• Post-Master's Certificate, Family Nurse Practitioner, University of Wyoming, 1996

• PhD, Nursing Science, University of Michigan, 1990

• MS, Community Health Nursing, University of Michigan, 1986

• BSN, University of Minnesota, 1983

• Diploma, Sioux Valley Hospital, 1980

Awards and Honors:

• 2005 / Senior Scholar, inVISIBLEcollege, Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Wyoming

• 2004 / Soroptimist Women of Distinction Award

• 2002 / American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, State Award for Excellence.

• 2001 / Downtown Clinic Volunteer of the Year

• 2000-2001 / Carnegie Scholar, The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 

• 1998-1999 / Academic Management Institute Participant

• 1998,1999 / Excellence in Advising, University of Wyoming

• 1987 / Ella C. McNeil Memorial Award for Excellence in Scholarship in Community Health Nursing, University of Michigan

• 1984 ‑ 1987 / Professional Nurse Traineeships, University of Michigan

• 1983 / Sigma Theta Tau, University of Minnesota

Academic Expertise:

Faculty Expertise

• Academic Expertise

  • Community Health

  • Advanced Nursing Practice

  • Primary Care

• Research Focus

  My research program addresses vulnerability, chronicity, rurality, help-seeking, the organization and delivery of health care services, specifically focused on accessibility and acceptability of care, and outcomes of care. I have viewed care of vulnerable, chronically ill persons as a complex relationship between the person, their family and the health care system that is influenced by the help-seeking strategies that people employ and the geographic area in which they live.

• Current Projects

  • Testing APN Model of Care with Low-income Uninsured Persons with Chronic Illness

  • Impact of Being Lack of Insurance on Individuals, Small Employers and Health Care Providers

  • Barriers to Depression Treatment in Wyoming

  • Depression and Anxiety Treatment Practices in a Free Clinic

• Completed Projects

  • Help-Seeking and Social Support of Rural Residents

  • Home Health Care Services

  • Breastfeeding and Childhood Primary Care Services in Wyoming

  • Help-Seeking and Symptom Management in Rural Families Experiencing Chronic/Terminal Illness

  • Stroke Trajectory

  • Therapeutic Decision Making in Nurse Practitioners

  • RN to FNP Transition

  • Reintegration of girls who have been members of fighting forces into their communities in Sierra Leone

  • Complementary and Alternative therapies: Competences for Family Nurse Practitioners

• Opportunities for Graduate Students

  I have several data sets that could be used for secondary analysis, plus I have ongoing projects that students could be involved in collecting data and then using part of it for their theses. So there are LOTS of opportunities

• Areas of research in which this person has interest and expertise and willingness to direct theses:

  • Chronic illness - impact on individuals and families

  • Symptom management and help-seeking

  • Primary Care services

  • Vulnerable populations, e.g., chronic illness, uninsured, low-income

  • APN practice and models of care

Professional Licensure & Certification

• Licensure: Wyoming RN and Advanced Practice Nurse (FNP) with prescriptive authority

• Certification

  • Clinical Nurse Specialist in Community Health Nursing, American Nurses Credentialing Center, 1994-present

  • Family Nurse Practitioner, American Nurses Credentialing Center, 1996-present

Professional Memberships

• Sigma Theta Tau

• Wyoming Nurses Association

• American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

• National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty

• Wyoming Council for Advanced Practice Nursing

Professional Experience

• 2008-present
  Dean, Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, University of Wyoming

• 2007-2008
  Interim Dean for the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, University of Wyoming

• Fall 2006
  Acting Dean, College of Health Sciences, University of Wyoming

• 2001-2006
  Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Health Sciences, University of Wyoming

• 2001-2002
  Family Nurse Practitioner, University of Wyoming Student Health Services

• 1999-present
  Family Nurse Practitioner, Downtown Clinic, Laramie, WY

• 1997-2000
  Family Nurse Practitioner, Spring Creek Family Medicine, Laramie, WY

• 1996-1998
  Family Nurse Practitioner, Whitney Health and Wellness Center, Eppson Center for Seniors, Laramie, WY

• 1993-1996
  Home Health Care Nurse, Wyoming Home Health Care, Laramie, WY

• 1992-present
  School of Nursing, University of Wyoming

  • 2003-present, Professor

  • 1998-2003, Associate Professor

  • 1998-present, Coordinator Family Nurse Practitioner Program

  • 1992-1998, Assistant Professor

• 1990-1992
  Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, Montana State University, Billings Campus

• 1984-1989
  Research Assistant/Teaching Assistant, School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

• 1984
  Staff Nurse and Nursing Supervisor, Wyoming Home Health Care, Laramie, WY

• 1982-1983
  Staff Nurse, Intensive Care Unit, St. Mary's Hospital, Minneapolis, MN

• 1980-1981
  Staff and Charge Nurse, Coronary Care Unit, Sioux Valley Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD

Last reviewed: 2/25/2008