Marian Wilson
Assistant Professor
Nursing
Washington State University Pullman
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Wilson completed her Ph.D. in Nursing at the Washington State University College of Nursing in Spokane under the guidance of Dr. John Roll within the Program of Excellence in Rural Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment. She is board certified in Pain Management Nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center & American Society for Pain Management Nursing. She has experience as a nurse scientist leading clinical research in acute care settings and has a passion for empowering nurses through engagement with evidence-based practice and research projects. She has published research testing Internet-based self-management programs to assist patients with persistent (chronic) pain and depressive symptoms. Her current focus is on how opioid use and addiction can be addressed within persistent pain populations with a focus on adoption of non-pharmacologic strategies and improving sleep.
Research Interest
Pain, sleep, self-management of chronic conditions, online interventions, evidence-based nursing practice.
Publications
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Wilson, M., Gettel, V., Walsh, J. Esquenazi, S. (in press, 2016). Caring compassionately for hospitalized patients: Can nurse-delivered massage address compassion fatigue? International Journal for Human Caring, 20(3).
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Günüşen, N. P., Wilson, M., Aksoy, B. (2017, in press). Secondary traumatic stress and burnout among Muslim nurses caring for chronically ill children in a Turkish hospital. Journal of Transcultural Nursing.
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Wilson, M., Hewes, C., Barbosa-Leiker, C., Mason, M., Wuestney, K. A., Shuen, J. A., Wilson, M. P. (2017, in press). Engaging adults with chronic disease in online depressive symptom self-management. Western Journal of Nursing Research.
