Kathleen A Sternas
Seton Hall University, USA
Biography
Kathleen A Sternas completed her PhD in nursing science from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA and holds a Master’s degree in community health nursing from Pennsylvania State University, USA. She is associate professor of community health nursing in the College of Nursing. Her program of research focuses on stress appraisal, coping, resources and health of individuals experiencing stressors including breast cancer, spousal bereavement, caregiver stress and relocation stress. Lazarus and Folkman’s stress-appraisal and coping theoretical framework guides her research. She has published numerous papers in scholarly journals and presented her research at international and national research conferences.