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Biography
Dr. Rick Zoucha is the Director of Nursing Education, Professor and Chair of Advanced Role and PhD Programs at Duquesne University School of Nursing. He has a special interest in Transcultural and Global Nursing as well as Psychosocial Nursing. Dr. Zoucha has taught Transcultural Nursing in the BSN, Post-Master's, DNP and PhD programs for the last 20 years. Dr. Zoucha teaches qualitative research methods in nursing in the PhD program. In addition, Dr. Zoucha is certified as an Advanced Practice Adult Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse, Clinical Nurse Specialist (Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist -Board Certified) by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Dr. Zoucha is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a Fellow of the Transcultural Nursing Society.
His research interests include understanding various phenomena related to health and well being in the Nicaraguan, Mexican American, African American and African refugee and immigrant communities. Dr. Zoucha is a qualitative and mixed method researcher experienced in ethnography, ethnonursing, phenomenology and participatory action research methods. He has served as PhD dissertation chair for studies seeking to understand cultural care phenomena related to people of the Puerto Rican, Taiwanese, Mexican American, African American, Peruvian, Dominican, Appalachian, and homeless cultures globally. Dr. Zoucha is a Certified Transcultural Nurse-Advanced. He was inducted as a Transcultural Nursing Scholar in 2004. Dr. Zoucha was bestowed the Leininger Award in 1998. Dr. Zoucha has been invited to speak at national and international conferences as well as Visiting Professor/Scholar in Puerto Rico, Spain, New Jersey, Taiwan, Australia and North Dakota regarding issues of cultural care.
Education
PhD, Nursing, Rush University, 1997MS, Nursing, Texas Womans' University, 1987
BSN, Nursing, University of the Incarnate Word, 1984
AAS, Nursing, Southern Illinois University, 1982
LVN, Nursing, St. Joseph Hospital School of Vocational Nursing, 1980
Expertise
- Community based participatory action research
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
- Transcultural/international nursing
- Cultural competence and health needs
- Qualitative research methods