Professional Degrees

Bachelor of Science, nursing, CSUS, December 1977
Master of Science, physiological nursing, UC San Francisco (UCSF), September 1985
Doctor of Philosophy, family health care nursing, UCSF, August 1993

Courses

Nursing 138 - Pediatric Nursinge - lecture and clinical
Nursing 139 - Pediatirc Nursing Assessment Skills
Nursing 150 - Nursing Research
Nursing 195 - Undergraduate Field Experience
Nursing 295 - Graduate Field Experience
Nursing 500 - Thesis Supervision

Publications

McCain, D. & Sutherland, S. (1998). Nursing essentials: skin grafts for patients with burns. American Journal of Nursing, 98(7), 34-38.
Sutherland, S. & Moore, L.M. (1998). Drug waste in electronic dispensing systems: do we comply with federal regulations? [Abstract] Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the American Burn Association, 30.
Sutherland, S. (1997). Accounts of nurses who deliver care to burn child abuse victims: what cost to the caregivers' souls? [Abstract] Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the American Burn Association, 29.
Sutherland, S. (1996). Procedural burn pain intensity under conditions of varying physical control by the patient. Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation, 17(5), 457-463.
Sutherland, S. [Letter to the Editor], Journal of Irreproducible Results, re. twinning in gummy bears.
Sutherland, S. (1994). Procedural burn pain intensity under conditions of varying physical control by the patient [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Burn Association, 25.
Kirkpatrick, H., Sutherland, S., & Tenney, F. (1993). Use of the rectal pouch for prevention of wound contamination in incontinent patients with buttocks and thigh burns [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Burn Association, 25,231.
Sutherland, S. (1992). The genetics of mermaids. Journal of Irreproducible Results, 37(1), 4-6.
Sutherland, S. (1990). Selection of methodology decision tree. IMAGE: The Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 22(2), 129.
Sutherland, S. (1988). Burned adolescents' descriptions of their coping strategies. Heart and Lung, 17(2). 150-157.

Research Interests

Coping
Burn patients
Adolescents
Effects of caregiving upon the caregiver
Burn pain
Qualitative studies
Quantiative studies
Active coaching by nurses during hospital patients' painful or negative experiences
Personal magic of the caregiver
Therapeutic effects of telling one's story

Projects

1. Interviews with burn patients - qualitative study - attempt to describe the experience of being a burn patient (in data analysis)
2. Qualitative and quantitative study - the effect of providing an interested listener to a burn patient (in last phase of data collection)
3. The range of opioid medications administered to burn patients - predictors and correlates (in data analysis)
4. The range of anxiolytic medications administered to burn patients - predictors and correlates (in data collection)
5. Evaluation of personal qualities, patterns of interaction, actions and attributes of the caregiver and the ways in which they impact the burn patient's pain experience (initial brainstorming and proposal development in progress)

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