Routledge International Handbook of Advanced Quantitative Methods in Nursing Research (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138552852)

Dr. Susan J. Henly is Professor Emerita, University of Minnesota, School of Nursing, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She earned her BS with a major in nursing from the College of St. Teresa, Winona, Minnesota and practiced in rural acute care, perinatal nursing, and neonatal intensive care in Alaska, New Mexico and Minnesota before returning to graduate school. Her MS degree in nursing, focused on perinatal health research, is from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She earned her PhD in psychometric methods from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She served on the College of Nursing faculty at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks prior to her appointment at Minnesota.

Over the past 30 years, Sue's research has focused on psychmetric methods for nursing research with special interests in robustness of estimators in the analysis of covariance structures, model selection, and longitudinal models for health trajectories. She was Methods Director for the National Institute of Nursing Research-funded Center for Health Trajectory Research at the University of Minnesota, School of Nursing. Sue has a special interest in advancing quantitative methods in nursing PhD programs. She was director of the American Indian MS to PhD Nursing Science Bridge Program (funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences) and chaired the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Sciences Idea Festival for Nursing Science Education. She has extensive service as a peer reviewer for nursing science, related fields, and methodology journals and has contributed to the peer review literature. Sue is Editor of Nursing Research. She is a member of the Japan Academy of Nursing Science and the American Academy of Nursing.