Tammy Neiman, PhD, RN-BC, PHN, is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing, College of Allied Health and Nursing, Minnesota State University Mankato (USA). She is involved in family nursing education, research, and practice. She teaches the introductory family nursing course in the undergraduate program and integrates family throughout all three courses and clinical experiences. Her research is focused on nurses’ experiences with palliative care in the acute care setting and school nurses’ experiences working with transgender and gender diverse students and their families (research team: Dr. Laurie Sieve, Dr. Nic Rider, Nicole Molesky, and Louise Sternberg). She also examines nurses’ experiences working in the COVID-19 pandemic and how the pandemic has impacted nurses’ inclusion of families (research team: Dr. Sandra Eggenberger, Dr. Pat Beierwaltes, David Clisbee, and Lynn Kuechle). She also works in the acute care setting as a staff and charge nurse, where she includes families in the care of patients to strengthen their ability to have positive outcomes when they are discharged from the hospital.
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