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Kimberly C. Norris DNP, MSN, RN, FNP-C, ENP-C

Kimberly C. Norris DNP, MSN, RN, FNP-C, ENP-C

Assistant Professor
Maternal-Child Health Nursing

Education

  • DNP, ºÚÁÏÌìÌÃ, 2022
  • Post Master’s, ºÚÁÏÌìÌà (Nursing: Family Nurse Practitioner), 2013
  • MSN, ºÚÁÏÌìÌà (Nursing), 2008
  • BSN, ºÚÁÏÌìÌà (Nursing), 1998
  • BS, ºÚÁÏÌìÌà (Education), 1993

Research Interests

  • School-based asthma education for middle school students
  • Narrowing the education gap to practice gap for undergraduate nursing students
  • Legalization of marijuana and its impact on primary healthcare
  • Camp Nursing

Ongoing Research Support

  • School-based interprofessional asthma self-management program for middle school students.

  • Narrowing the education-practice gap in physical assessment skills training for undergraduate nursing students

Completed Research Support

  • School-based interprofessional asthma self-management program for middle school students: A feasibility trial. ºÚÁÏÌìÌà Faculty Development Council (USAFDC) Grant. February 2016-February 2017.

  • Norris, K., McMullan, T., Bertolla, S. & Huey, T. (2012). Assessing parental and player knowledge of the Alabama Concussion Law: Evaluating the effectiveness of an educational intervention. Submitted to USA College of Nursing Dean's Grant, $600.00

  • Meyer, T., Hall, H., Hamilton, K., Whitwoth, S. & Norris, K. (2010). Evaluation of Effectiveness of Wilderness Therapy as a Component of Adjudicated Sentencing for Juvenile Females At-risk to Reoffend. Submitted to USA College of Nursing Dean's Grant. Funded.


Selected Publications

  • Buckner, E, Meyer, T., Hamilton, K. & Norris, K. (2011). Perspectives Worth Sharing, Wilderness and Adventure Therapy for Behavioral Health. CompassPoint, 21 (4), 19-22.

  • Buckner, E. & Norris, K. (2012). Perspectives Worth Sharing, Nursing Education Research in the Camp Setting, CompassPoint, 22(1), 16-19.

  • Norris, K. & Buckner, E. (2012). Perspectives Worth Sharing, Children's Burn Camps, CompassPoint, 22(2).

  • Buckner, E, Morrow, T., & Norris, K. (2012). Perspectives Worth Sharing, Children with Sensory Impairment: Camps for Athletes of Experimental Learning, CompassPoint 22(3).

  • Buckner, E. & Norris, K. (2013). Perspectives Worth Sharing, Children's Greif and Healing through Bereavement Camps, CompassPoint 23(1

  • Norris, K, & Buckner, E. (2015). Perspectives Worth Sharing, Children with Colitis and Crohn's at Camp, CompassPoint 25(4).


Teaching

Graduate

  • Advanced Health Assessment

Undergraduate

  • Health Assessment
  • Childbearing/Childrearing
  • Childbearing/Childrearing Clinical
  • Evidence Based Practice
  • Clinical Nursing Skills