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Lynda Harrison

Lynda Harrison, M.S.N., Ph.D.

Dr. Harrison's research promotes positive parent-infant relationships, and her area of specialty is generating and analyzing tactile interventions to reduce stress for premature infants. She is now working with the Pan American Health Organizations Center on a culturally targeted intervention involving Latino families with adolescents in rural Alabama. She is on the editorial board of Advances in Neonatal Care, and she was Editor for the Americas of the Journal of Advanced Nursing for several years.

Positions

  • Professor, University of Alabama School of Nursing
  • Deputy Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center on International Nursing

 

Education

  • M.S.N., 1975, The University of Delaware
  • Ph.D., 1982, The University of Tennessee

 

Relevant Publications

  • Newman K., Harrison L., Dashiff C., & Davies S. (2008). Relationships between parenting styles and risk behaviors in adolescent health: An integrative literature review. Revista Latino-Americana De Enfermagem, 16(1), 142-150.
  • Harrison, L., & Scarini, I. (2007). Child health needs of rural Alabama Latino families. Journal of Community Health Nursing, 24(1), 31-47.
  • Garces, I. C., Scarini, I. C., & Harrison, L. (2006). An examination of sociocultural factors associated with health and health care seeking among Latina immigrants. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 8(4), 377-385.
  • Harrison, L. L. Maintaining the ethic of caring in nursing. (2006). Journal of Advanced Nursing, 54(3), 255-257.
  • Hernandez, A. R., Morales Padilla, O. N., & Law Harrison, L. (2006, May 2006). Perspective sobre la invetigacion en enfermeria en Guatemala. Enfermeria Global, (8). Retrieved January 29, 2008, from http://www.um.es/eglobal/8/08c04.html

 

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