Sharon Sweeney Fee, PhD RN
E-mail: sfee@montana.edu
Sharon Sweeney Fee completed her PhD in 2004 and MSN in 2001 in Nursing Systems at the University of Arizona. Sharon has been an RN since receiving her Associate Degree from Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona in 1997. In 1999 she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Northern Arizona University through their RN to BSN Distance Learning Program. Sharon also received a Bachelors of Arts degree in Women’s Studies from Prescott College in 1993. Her focus of research is on health outcomes for rural dwellers that travel for health care.
Nursing in Sharon’s second career and she has embraced the profession since the beginning of her training. As an A.D.N. student she was actively involved in the Student Nurses Association of Arizona (SNAAZ) as both a board member and as the President of the Board of Directors. Through her participation with SNAAZ she attended many state and national student nursing conventions. She was the co-chair of volunteers for the National Student Nurses Association Convention in Phoenix in 1996. While working on her B.S.N. she continued her student activities and was elected as the President of the National Student Nurses Association in 1998.
After completing her student offices, Sharon was actively involved with the Arizona Nurses Association and held the office of Nominations and Appointments Chair on the Board of Directors from 1999-2001. She has also represented Arizona nurses as a member of the American Nurses Association House of Delegates in both 2000 and 2001. She is currently a member of the ANA Ethics and Human Rights Advisory Board.
Publications
Sweeney Fee, S (2004) Risk factors of hospital readmission in rural cardiac patients. [Abstract] Communicating Nursing Research, 37 (12), 346.
Sweeney Fee, S (2004) Issues in health care geography: defining migration for health care. [Abstract] Communicating Nursing Research, 37 (12), 394.
Runquist J, Sweeney Fee S, DeLaO Kerns R, Choi M, Glittenberg J. A co-created learning process in a doctoral seminar. Journal of Nursing Education (in press).
Research and Scholarship
Doctoral Dissertation: 8/04- An Expanding Framework for Rural Patients who Travel for Health Care