Communities of Practice
Gloria F. Donnelly, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCPP
Gloria Donnelly is a longstanding proponent of self-care and resilience building strategies beginning with her book, Coping with Stress: RN’s Survival Sourcebook Medical Economics Press, 1983 and most recently, with Dr. R. Wicks, Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice, Oxford University Press, 2021. As the recently retired Editor in Chief of the refereed […]
Care of the Hopeful Heart: Resilience & Well-Being in the Healthcare Setting,
Robert Wicks, PsyD
Dr. Robert Wicks has spoken on his major areas of expertise—resilience, self-care, and the prevention of secondary stress (the pressures encountered in reaching out to others)—on Capitol Hill to Members of Congress and their Chiefs of Staff, led a course in resilience in Beirut for relief workers brought there from Aleppo, Syria, spoken at Johns […]
Care of the Hopeful Heart: Resilience & Well-Being in the Healthcare Setting,
Ann Gibbons Phalen, PhD, CRNP, NNP
Ann Gibbons Phalen, PhD, CRNP, NNP, Dean of Cranaleith's Community of Practice for Healthcare, has practiced nursing for over forty-five years. Throughout her nursing career, Dr. Phalen has served as a bedside nurse, clinical specialist, nurse practitioner, nurse educator and researcher. Her area of expertise is neonatal nursing. Dr. Phalen has held multiple administrative roles […]
Mary Jo Pierantozzi
Mary Jo Pierantozzi, MS, was an Assistant Professor and the Program Coordinator for Undergraduate Education until she retired from Gwynedd Mercy University in May 2023. She has been in the field of Education for more than fifty-five years, twenty-one of them full-time at GMercyU. In May 2023, Mary Jo was named Professor Emerita and also […]