Alice J. Haines | School of Nursing | University of Pittsburgh

DNP, RN, CMSRN, CHSE

Assistant Professor

Acute & Tertiary Care

Profile

Dr. Haines has been worked at the University of Pittsburgh for 18 years and has taught multiple courses in the classroom and the skills laboratory. She has also done clinical instruction with traditional sophomores, ABSNs and senior students.

Clinical Emphasis

Medical-Surgical
Critical Care Stepdown

Scholarly Emphasis

Dr. Haines's DNP capstone project developed a video to reduce stress and anxiety in caregivers of lung transplant patients. Her dissertation for her PhD was a qualitative grounded theory analysis that assessed why clinical instructors fail to fail undergraduate students who are clearly unsafe in the clinical setting. She is interested in research and scholarship related to nursing education and clinical topics.

Teaching

Dr. Haines has been the primary instructor in the skills lab courses NUR 0080, 0081 and 1281 for 18 years. She has been a primary instructor for Nursing 0081 Foundations of Nursing Practice II for 17 years, as well as NUR 1282 and 1282c, Transitions NUR 1134, NUR 1135 and NUR 1234c, and Senior Seminar NUR 1990.

Service

Dr. Haines is a member of PSNA, Sigma Theta Tau, Delta Kappa Gamma, the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), the American Thoracic Society (ATS), and currently serves as the post-baccalaureate representative for Pitt Nursing Alumni.