Annette Peery

Research Interest: Determining the nutrition knowledge of registered nurses and the nutrition education provided in nursing education.
Innovation: Relatively little recent research in this area of nursing education.
Research Context / Setting: Surveying registered nurses in NC on their nutrition knowledge related to diabetes and their perceived barriers to patient education in their clinical settings.
Study Design: Quantitative / survey design
Research Population: RNs in NC
Sampling Strategy: Will e-mail all RNs who have registered an e-mail address with the NCBON inviting them to participate in the project via an electronic survey
Data Collection Instruments: A survey that has been created and validated by content experts
Analysis Methods: Descriptive analysis, Correlational analysis and possibly some regression analysis
Collaborators: Nutrition experts

My research is focused in two areas – nursing education and the clinical issue of grief. In the area of nursing education, my research is two-fold: one is to determine the nutrition knowledge of registered nurses and the nutrition education provided in nursing education. In the clinical area, I am interested in chronic grief in parents of children with type 1 diabetes.