Mirinda Brown Tyo, PhD, RN, TCRN, is an Assistant Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (USA). She is new in her faculty role but has 20 years of experience including emergency nursing, leadership, and clinical education. Dr. Tyo’s program of research focuses on resilience and family caregivers. At present, she is collaborating with Dr. Melissa Desroches and Dr. Shelley Zhang as Co-PI for an internal seed grant to identify factors that promote resilience among direct support professionals during COVID-19 for intervention development. She also received a pilgrim grant from the university in collaboration with Dr. Mary McCurry for an E-Delphi study to explore the needs of family caregivers of individuals with substance use disorder.
Dr. Tyo teaches graduate-level pharmacology and undergraduate medical-surgical courses. She threads the concept of family nursing throughout her courses. Most recently, she has incorporated family member roles for undergraduate simulation using unfolding case studies.
Dr. Tyo is a member of the IFNA Education Committee (communication and newsletter subcommittee, and the simulation, technology, and informatics committee).
For more information, contact IFNA member Mirinda B.Tyo.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirinda-tyo-phd-rn-tcrn-760a1542/
