Diane Wind Wardell, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, AHN-BC, served Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston for 35 years. She was the Director of the Women’s Health Care Tract and offered nurse practitioner services in the community including a school-based pregnancy clinic and homeless shelter for women. She taught at the master’s level, DNP students, and in the PhD program in the areas of practice, research, and theory. She was also an expert in integrative medicine’s energy-based therapies.
Education
Texas Woman's University, Houston, Texas
PhD in Nursing
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
MSN
St. John College, Cleveland, Ohio
BSN
Clinical/Research Focus
Dr. Wardell’s research areas of interest are in women’s health and alternative healing modalities, specifically touch therapies/biofield therapies. Her past research includes assessing reasons why abused women stay in relationship, women’s experience of menopause, developing partnerships, and military women's hygiene issues. She has also conducted translation research and collaboratively developed a pacifier for low birth weight infants, the WEE Thumbie which is marketed and sold internationally.
Publications
- A Systematic Review of Women's Experiences of Interpersonal Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Energy Healers' Distance Healing Experience
- The associations between physical activity, health-related quality of life, regimen adherence, and glycemic control in adolescents with type 1 diabetes: A cross-sectional study
- Psychosexual responses to BRCA gene mutations in women of childbearing age
- Healing Touch: A Strategy for Acute Care Nurses' Stress Reduction
