Pamela reed nurse theorist biography
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Pamela G. Reed was born in Detroit, Michigan.
Pamela reed nurse theorist biography
She married her husband, Gary, in 1973, and they have two daughters. Reed graduated with her baccalaureate from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, in 1974 and earned her M.S.N. in psychiatric-mental health of children and adolescents and in nursing education in 1976.
She began doctoral study at that institution in 1979 and received her Ph.D. in 1982 with a concentration in nursing theory and research, and a minor in adult development and aging. Her dissertation research was directed by Joyce J.
Fitzpatrick and focused on the relationship between well-being and spiritual perspectives on life and death in terminally ill and well individuals.
Reed is on the faculty at The University of Arizona College of Nursing in Tucson, where she has taught, conducted research, and served in administrative roles, including Associate Dean for Academic Affairs since