Sandra Ward, PhD, RN, FAAN

Title: Helen Denne Schulte Professor
Phone: (608) 263-5277
E-mail: sward@wisc.edu
Support Staff: Jackie O'Brien
Office Address:

K6/348 CSC
600 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53792-2455

Eduation:

Description of Research Focus:

I study how adults cope with cancer with a special emphasis on pain and symptom management. I am presently conducting a series of intervention studies in which I am testing ways to alter patients’ negative ideas about using analgesics, with the ultimate goal of improving pain control for persons with cancer.

Teaching/Course Responsibilities:
(excluding independent study courses)

Honors and Awards/Professional Service:

Representative Publications:

Donovan, H., Ward, S., Song, M., Heidrich, S., Gunnarsdottir, S., & Phillips, C.  An update on the representational approach to patient education. (in press).  Journal of Nursing Scholarship.

Ward, S., Donovan, H., Gunnarsdottir, S., Serlin, R., Shapiro, G., & Hughes, S. (in press).  A representational intervention to decrease pain.   Health Psychology.

Ezenwa, M., Ameringer, S., Ward, S. & Serlin, R.C. (2006).  Racial and ethnic disparities in pain management.  Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 38, 225-233. 

Ameringer, S., Serlin, R.C., Hughes, S., Frierdich, S. & Ward, S. Concerns about pain management among adolescents with cancer: Developing the Adolescent Barriers Questionnaire. (2006). Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 23, 220-232.

Stevenson, K., Brown, R., Dahl, J., Ward, S., & Skemp, M.  (2006). The Discomfort Behavior Scale: A tool to measure discomfort based on the Minimum Data Set.  Research in Nursing & Health, 26 (6), 576-587.

Ameringer, S., Serlin, R.C., Hughes, S., Frierdich, S. & Ward, S. Concerns about pain management among adolescents with cancer: Developing the Adolescent Barriers Questionnaire. (2006). Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 23, 20-232.

Song, M., Kirchhoff, K., Douglas, J., Ward, S., & Hammes, B. (2005).  A randomized controlled trial to improve advance care planning among cardiac surgery patients.  Medical Care.