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Dr. Rebecca Kronk joined Duquesne University School of Nursing as an Assistant Professor in August 2010, earned tenure in 2016 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2022. She is a board certified pediatric nurse practitioner. Dr. Kronk earned her MSN from the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing and a PhD in Applied Development Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Education.
Dr. Kronk is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner and her practice focus has always been within pediatric genetics and disability nursing. Dr. Kronk is currently the president of the Alliance for Disability Health Care Education. Dr. Kronk was trained as a fellow in the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) at the University of Pittsburgh. Grant funding has supported her work in creating the Consultant with Disability Simulation Program and Stages II Camp for youth with disabilities.
Dr. Kronk completed the NINR Summer Genetics Institute (2011), the NINR Sleep Methodologies Boot Camp (2013), NINR Big Data Methodologies Boot Camp (2015) and the National Human Genome Research Institute Summer Workshop (2015). Since 2011, Dr. Kronk has been an active member and past-president of the International Society of Nurses in Genetics (ISONG). She has a strong commitment to improve genomic literacy and make genomics approachable to all levels of nursing students and practicing nurses. Dr. Kronk has developed undergraduate genomic courses, and was awarded an R25 grant supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health (Award Number R25HG011228) to educate doctoral level nurses and students entitled “Genomic Competencies for Nurses from Theory to Application: An Online Long Course”. Dr. Kronk has been a member of ISCC-PEG since 2020 and actively involved with the ISCC-PEG Nursing Genomics Project group.
Post-graduate education has occurred at the National Institutes of Health and included:
2015 National Human Genome Research Institute Summer Workshop in Genomics
2014 NINR Big Data Methodologies Boot Camp
2013 NINR Sleep Methodologies Boot Camp
2011 NINR Summer Genetics Institute
While at Duquesne, Dr. Kronk has applied her expertise in pediatrics and genetics
to both graduate and undergraduate course; she has also accompanied nursing students
to Nicaragua for a service learning experience and provided the emphasis on the nursing
care of children. She developed the undergraduate course Genetics in Nursing and Health.
Dr. Kronk was the first recipient, along with her colleague, Dr. Yvonne Weideman, of the Gaultier Fellowship for community-engaged scholarship. She also received the 2012-2013 Teacher of the Year Award, the 2014 Cameos of Caring - Nurse Educator Award and the 2022 Duquesne University School of Nursing Faculty Excellence in Scholarship Award.
TRAINEESHIPS-FELLOWSHIPS-APPOINTMENTS
2018 - Present
Fellow in the American Academy of Nurses (FAAN)
2018 - Present
ANA Scope and Standards of Practice Intellectual and Developmental Nursing Work Group
2016 - 2017
Emerging Educational Administrator Institute Scholar Sigma Theta Tau International
Honor Society of Nursing Inc. (EEAI-STTI)
2016 - 2017
AACN Leadership for Academic Nursing Program Fellow (LANP)
1998 - 1999
Leadership in Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) Fellow
Education
MSN, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, University of Pittsburgh, 1999
BSN, Nursing, Carlow College, 1981
RN, Diploma-RN, St Francis Hospital, 1978
Expertise
- Genetic Literacy
- Advancing Genetic and Genomic Education and Literacy
- Vaccine refusal and the nurse's role
- Health outcomes of nursing students
- Sleep in children with special needs
- Photovoice
- Health care and people with disabilities
- Disability Health Care Advocacy and Training