Educational Background

B.S.N. (Univ of Maryland), 1971; M.S. (Univ of Oklahoma), 1980; Ph.D. (Texas Woman's Univ), 1989.

Teaching Responsibilities

Professional Project

Directed Studies

Research Interests

Promotion of healthy families during childbearing and childrearing

Retention in Nursing Education

Spirituality and Health across the lifespan

Selected Publications

Burns, P. (2005). Reducing infant mortality rates using the perinatal periods of risk
model. Public Health Nursing, 22(1), 2-7.

Baldwin, K. & Burns, P. (2004). Development and implementation of an online
CNS program, Clinical Nurse Specialist, 18(5), 248-254.

Hogstel, M., Curry, L., Walker, C., & Burns, P. (2004). Ethics committees in long-
term care facilities, Geriatric Nursing, 25(6), 364-369.

Forni, P., & Burns, P. (1997). How can nursing decrease the costs of nursing
education: What is the bottom line? In J. McCloskey & H. Grace (Eds.), Current 
issues in nursing. St. Louis: Mosby. (Selected as Mosby Book of the Year).

Recent Presentations

Burns, P. & Poster, E. (2006, February). Developing and measuring competencies in undergraduate nursing students. State Consortium on Competencies. Texas Tech University.

Burns, P. (2005, May) Scholarship and the faculty role. American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) 2005 Hot Issues Conference, Scottsdale, AZ.  (Invited)

Baldwin, K., & Burns, P. (2002). Online CNS program with  an ADN-MSN Accelerated option. AACN Master’s Conference, Florida, (Poster).

Professional Affiliations

American Association of Colleges of Nursing

Texas Deans and Directors of Baccalaureate Programs

Texas Deans and Directors of BSN and ADN programs

Southern Nursing Research Society

Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society in Nursing

American Nurses Association

Professional Service

2006 Reviewer, Health Resources and Services Administration, Nursing Education Grant Proposals

2006 Member, Competency Development Consortium, Texas Tech University & Cerner Corporation

2004 Founding Member, North Texas Academic and Service Consortium on Nursing Competencies

2003 Member, Fort Worth Healthy Start Infant Mortality Evaluation Committee

2003 Dallas FortWorth Hospital Council

2001 Co-chair, Building Capacity in Nursing Programs Committee

Honors & Awards

2005 Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow
2003 Fellow in the Fuld Leadership for Academic Nursing Program, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington, DC                                   
1999 Excellence in Community Service Award-Sigma Theta Tau International, Zeta Delta Chapter, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK.
1999 Excellence in Nursing Education Award-Sigma Theta Tau International, Mu Iota Chapter, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK.
1996 Nancy and Raymond Feldman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Rogers University, Tulsa, OK.
1992 Nurse Educator of the Year Award, Oklahoma Nurses Association.