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Lucy Hood |
Lucy Hood is currently employed as a Professor at Saint Luke’s College and has taught at the College since 1989. Her current teaching responsibilities include health assessment, basic concepts & skills of nursing and nursing leadership. Prior to assuming her teaching appointment she worked in the areas of adult medical surgical and neuroscience nursing at St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City. She earned her PhD in nursing from Widener University in Chester, PA; MSN in adult nursing with an emphasis in teaching from UMKC, a BSN from Webster University, Webster Groves, MO; and a diploma in nursing from St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing KC, She received the Region 2 Sigma Theta Tau Dissertation Award in 1998 and has presented at international, national, regional and local professional nursing programs. She is a member of the AANN, ONS, ANA, MONA, NLN, MOLN, and Sigma Theta Tau Interactional. She currently serves as a member of the MONA Governmental Affairs Committee. She has served on planning committees for local nursing workshops.
Her publications include three editions of Leddy & Pepper’s Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing, published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. She has also been published as a coauthor in the following journals: Journal of Transcultural Nursing, American Journal of Nursing, Nurse Educator, Journal of Professional Nursing, and Journal of Neuroscience Nursing. She has been a contributing author to Springhouses” Handbook of Nursing Procedures and Medical Terminology Made Incredibly Easy.
In addition to her teaching activities at the College, Dr. Hood serves as an adjunct faculty in the St. Luke’s Hospital Clinical Pastoral Education Program and has provided consultation and mentoring to staff nurses and graduate students for research projects.
