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Completed Research Support

• ÌìÃÀÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½ College Student Obesity Prevention Pilot Project The purpose was to examine various factors in nutritional status and BMI in freshman with a planned nursing major.

• Grade Registry Project – Educational The purpose was to examine RN licensure predictive capability of standardized testing and cut points for undergraduate nursing courses.

• Frontline Innovations The purpose was to examine process of nursing shared governance initiative at USA Medical Center.

• University of Alabama at Birmingham - Extramural Brookwood Hospital Research Council Pain Scale Comparison in ICUs. The purpose was to compare two types of pain scales in the ICUs.

• Brookwood Hospital Research Council – Behavioral Rapid Response Team. The purpose was to initiate and evaluated a Behavioral Rapid Response Team in an in-patient general hospital setting. Recipient of $10,000 national competitive clinical innovation award for the institutions in recognition of a clinical effort/program.

• Sigma Theta Tau, Nu Chapter Dissertation Research Funding. $750. The purpose was to examine a model of parental and adolescent variables related to sexual risk communication and autonomy support and outcomes of adolescent sexual risk behavior and knowledge with mediation of autonomy motivation.

• Dearmon, V. A., Riley, B. H. Mestas, L. G., & Buckner, E. B. (2015). Bridge to shared governance: Developing leadership of frontline nurses. Nursing Administration Quarterly, 39 (1), 69-77.

• Riley, B. H., White, J., Graham, S., & Alexandrov, A. (2014). Traditional/restrictive vs patient- centered intensive care unit visitation: Perceptions of patients’ family members, physicians, and nurses. American Journal of Critical Care, 23(4), 316-324.

• Dashiff, C., Riley, B. H., Abdullatif, H., & Moreland, E. (2011). ÌìÃÀÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½â€™ experiences supporting self-management of TIDM in middle adolescents. Pediatric Nursing, 37(6), 304-10.

• Riley, B. (2010). GLB adolescents coming out. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, 23(1), 3-10

Selected Podium Presentations

• Riley, B. H., Bihan, S., & Farmer, J. (2018). Partnership of Nursing and Simulation to Transform Students from Passive Observer to Active Learner in a Block Undergraduate Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Course/Clinical. Eighth Annual South Alabama Conference on Teaching and Learning, 7, 2018, ÌìÃÀÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½, May Mobile, AL.

• B. H. & Bihan, S. - Nursing; Brooks, W. & Franks, R. - Medicine; Estis, J. - Quality Enhancement – Team Based Learning; Farmer, J.& Rudd, A. – Simulation, (2017). Behavioral patient safety impact using interprofessional simulation. Southern Regional Human Simulation Network, August 9, 2017, ÌìÃÀÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½, Mobile, AL.

• Lollar, J., McMullan, T., Roberts, S. & Riley, B. H. (2017). Sifting through trends to develop initiatives to enhance nursing education. Podium Presentation at Nuts and Bolts for Nurse Educators. NurseTim, August 3-6, 2017, Minneapolis, MN.

• McMullan, T., Lollar, J., Roberts, S., & Riley, B. H. (2017). Developing trends to influence program design for undergraduate nursing students. Podium Presentation at Concept-Based Curriculum Enhance Clinical Learning. NurseTim, February 4-5, 2017, Orlando, FL.

• Riley, B. H. & VandeWaa, E. (2016). Reality/TV: Balancing direct marketing of psychotropic drugs to patients with safe medical practice. Oral presentation at the meeting of the Sigma Theta Tau Zeta Gamma Chapter & Alabama State Nurses Association District 4, Pharmacology CEU Day. August 2, 2016.

• Riley, B.H., Farmer, J., Bihan, S., & Nadler, M. (2016, September). Simulation in mental health nursing: A growing ecosystem for nursing education. Oral presentation at the meeting of the Sigma Theta Tau International, Region 8, Jackson, Mississippi.

• Dearmon, V., Buckner, E., Mestas, L., & Riley, B. H. (2016) Frontline nurse engagement and empowerment: Characteristics and processes for building leadership capacity. Oral presentation at the ÌìÃÀÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½ Faculty Development Council Symposium, Mobile, AL, March 21-23, 2016.

• Riley, B. H., Farmer, J. Bihan, S., Moore-Nadler, M. (2016). Teaching and Evaluation in a Transitioned Traditional to Accelerated Mental Health Nursing (BSN) Course. Oral presentation at the Alabama Academy of Science, 93rd Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, February 18, 2016.

• Younce, A. Riley, B., Sturdivant, T., Buckner, E., Johnson, P., & Kennell, K. (2016). Moving from DNR to AND: An ethical imperative. Oral presentation at the Alabama Academy of Science, 93rd Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, February 18, 2016.

Graduate Courses Taught

• Critical Analysis of Scientific Underpinning of Advanced Nursing Practice
• Theoretical Foundations
• Organizational Systems Analysis, Leadership and Change
• Advanced Nursing Research

Undergraduate Courses Taught

• Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (Faculty and Coordinator)
• Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Clinical (Faculty and Coordinator)
• Decision Making & Delegation
• Freshman Seminar in Nursing
• Evidence-Based Practice
• Honors Seminar