Valerie Boebel Toly, PhD, RN, CPNP, FAAN, is an Associate Professor and holds the Arline H. and Curtis F. Garvin Professorship in Nursing Excellence at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio USA. She has led pioneering research, strategically building the science through a sequential series of studies illuminating the experiences of families caring for children dependent on lifesaving technology (e.g., mechanical ventilation, feeding tubes) at home. Her studies have been funded by the Society of Pediatric Nurses, Sigma Theta Tau International, and the National Institute of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research.
Dr. Toly’s major research contributions include leading descriptive investigations into the impact of caregiving on parents’ mental health, normalization efforts, and family functioning; conducting randomized controlled trials of resourcefulness and mindfulness interventions on parents’ physical/mental health, stress, self-management (e.g., sleep); and highlighting mothers’ experiences throughout the transition trajectory prior to and following their infant’s discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Her research has been featured in national and international scoping and integrative reviews, theoretical and empirical work, and professional books by nurses, physicians, other healthcare professionals around the globe and integrated into practice and policy guidelines of national and international pediatric medicine and nursing associations to illuminate the clinical implications of her work for family nursing and interdisciplinary practice.
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