Linda Delunas
Professor and Director, School of Nursing
ldelunas@iun.edu
Dunes Medical / Professional Building 3103
219-980-6643
Office Hours:
By Appointment
Delunas, L. (1990). Prevention of elder abuse: Betty Neuman Health Care Systems approach. Clinical Nurse Specialist, 4, 54-58.
Delunas, L. (1996). Beyond Type A: Hostility and heart disease. Implications for research and practice. Rehabilitation Nursing, 21, 196-201.
Delunas, L. and Potempa K. (1999). Adaptation after treatment of heart disease: Preliminary examination within a stress appraisal context. Heart and Lung, 28, 186-194.
Nardi, D. and Delunas, L. (2000). Development, preliminary testing and use of the Parenting Tracking Form in perinatal addiction treatment. Addiction Research, 8, 399-412.
Jordan, M. and Delunas, L (2001). Quality of life and patterns of non-traditional therapy use by patients with cancer. Oncology Nursing Forum, 28, 1107-1113.
Hobson, C., Delunas, L., and Kesic, D. (2001). Compelling evidence of the need for corporate work-life balance initiatives: Results from a national survey of stressful life-events. Journal of Employment Counseling, 38, 38-44
Hobson, C., Kesic, D. and Delunas, L. (2001). A framework for redesigning or fine-tuning your benefit package: Results from a national survey of stressful life-events. Benefits Quarterly, 17(3), 46-50.
Hobson, C. and Delunas, L. (2001). National Norms and life-events frequencies for the Revised Social Readjustment Rating Scale. International Journal of Stress Management, 8, 299-314.
Hobson., C. Kesic, D., Rosetti, D. Delunas, L. & Hobson, N. (2004). Motivating employee commitment with empathy and support during stressful life events. In’l J. of Management, 21. 332-337.
Delunas, L. & Bergland, B. (2007). The introduction of continuous planning in a maturing institution. Metropolitan Universities, 18, 16-25.
Invited Contributing Author (test items), Billings, D. (Ed.) (2008): Lippincott’s Content Review for NCLEX-RN, 1E. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA.
Hobson, C. and Delunas, L. (2009). Efficacy of different techniques for reducing stress: A study among business students in the United States. International Journal of Management, 26, 186-196.
Delunas, L. & Rooda, L. (2009). A model for clinical instruction of undergraduate nursing students. Nursing Education Perspectives, 30, 377-380.
Rouse, S., Delunas, L., Anderson, W., and Anderson, J. (2010). Interprofessional education: Development of an interdisciplinary health care team project at a Midwestern U.S. university. Journal of International Association of Medical Science Educators, 20, 276-280.
Delunas, L. and Rouse, S. (Submitted November 2011). Health care students’ attitudes about interprofessional communication and collaboration before and after an interprofessional education experience. Nursing Education Perspectives
Co-editor/Contributing author (2009). (With Dr. Cynthia O’Dell), IU Northwest Systems Portfolio v2 (submitted November 2009). (Author, Category 8, Planning Continuous Improvement); Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP).
Co-editor/Contributing author (2007). (With Dr. Robin Hass Birky), IU Northwest Living Systems Portfolio, at www.iun.edu/~aqip for Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP). Reaffirmation of accreditation spring 2009.
Contributing author (2007). IU Northwest School of Nursing Accreditation Self-study for National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLN-AC) accreditation (full continuing accreditation awarded spring 2008).
Petr, J. & Delunas, L. (2005). Dimensional Analysis student DVD and workbook (in-house production; supported by AHEC grant, 2005).
Delunas, L. (2004). Instructor Power-Point Slides to accompany Trochim, W. (2005). Research methods: The concise knowledge base. Atomic Dog Publishing, Cincinnati, OH.
Invited Contributing Author (test items), Rayfield, S. and Manning, L. (Eds) (2001 through 2010): NCLEX-RN 101: How to pass! (4th through 7th Editions). ICAN Publishers, Shreveport, LA.
Anderson, W., Delunas, L., Rouse, S., Anderson, J., & Bankston, P. Interprofessional Student Healthcare Teams: Improving healthcare quality from the ground up. Central Group on Educational Affairs of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Poster Presentation, Chicago IL, April 2010
Delunas, L., Rouse, S., Anderson, J., & Anderson, M. Breaking Down Silos: Interprofessional Education. National League for Nursing Education Summit: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; September, 2009.
Petr, J. & Delunas, L. It’s Not Just the Students: A Multifaceted Approach to Improving NCLEX-RN Pass Rates. National League for Nursing Education Summit: New York, New York; September, 2006
Delunas, L. & Bergland, B. Growing Pains: The Introduction of Continuous Planning in a Maturing Institution. Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities Conference: Miami, Florida, October, 2006
Hobson, C., Delunas, L., Rosetti, D. Identifying “at-risk” individuals for stressful life-events as a function of four primary demographic factors. National Business and Economics Society Fifth Annual Conference. March 10, 2004; Honolulu, Hawaii.
Delunas, L. Gender differences in life events stress utilizing an updated Social Readjustment Rating Scale: Results from a large-scale sample of the U.S. population. Midwest Nursing Research Society 25th Annual Research Conference, Cleveland, Ohio (March, 2001).
Delunas, L. Mood and functioning in patients prior to coronary angiography. Northwest Indiana Nursing Research Consortium Research Conference, Merrillville, IN. (November 2000).
Hobson, C., Delunas, L., and Kesic, D. A new Stressful Live Events Questionnaire for use in employee training. Applied Business Research Conference, Denver, CO. (August 1999).
Nardi, D. and Delunas, L. Development and use of the Parenting Tracking Form in perinatal addiction treatment. 38th International Congress on Alcohol, Drugs and other Dependencies, Vienna, Austria (August, 1999).
*Delunas, L. Hostility, threat appraisal and quality of life after treatment for heart disease. Midwest Nursing Research Society 22nd Annual Research Conference; Columbus, Ohio (March, 1998)