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Faculty

Degrees: EdD, RN

Office Address:
A115 Life Sciences

Office Phone: 517/432-1720

E-mail Address: maryjo.arndt@hc.msu.edu

Faculty Rank: Associate Professor

Education: Ed.D. - Ball State University, 1981 Muncie, Indiana, Major: Educational Administration, Cognates: Nursing, Counseling Psychology

M.A. - Ball State University, 1983 Muncie, Indiana, Major: Parent-Child Nursing, Role: Administration

M.A. Ed. - Murray State University, 1975 Murray, Kentucky, Area of Specialization: Guidance and Counseling

B.S.N. - Loyola University of Chicago, 1966

Honors and Achievements: Recipient, Excellence in Nursing Research award, 1993, Beta Rho Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau.

Nominated for Woman of Achievement Award in The Professions, East Central Indiana Chapter of Women in Communications, 1986.

Outstanding Alumni, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University of Chicago, for Distinguished Accomplishment in Nursing Education, 1985.

Who’s Who of American Women, 13th edition, 1983.

Commendation for work on comparing model nurse practice acts from Chairman, Indiana State Nurses’ Association Committee on Legislation, 1982.

Nominated for award from Association for Study of Higher Education for doctoral research study, 1981.

Memberships: Sigma Theta Tau, Midwest Nursing Research Society, RN-AIM

Research Interests:

Hermeneutics
Interpretive Phenomenology
Qualitative Research
Theory of Human Becoming

Selected Publications: Daley, L., Spalla, T., Arndt, M.J., & Warnes, A. (2008). Videoconferencing and web-based conferencing to enhance learning communities. Journal of Nursing Education 47(2), 78-81.

Horodynski, M.A., Olson, B., Arndt, M.J. Brophy-Herb, H., Shirer, K., & Shemanski, R. (2007) Low-income mothers’ decisions regarding when and why to introduce solid foods to their infants: Influencing factors, Journal of Community Health Nursing 24(2), 101-118.

“Eating Together—Mealtimes with African American Fathers and Their Toddlers” (co-author with M. Horodynski), Applied Nursing Research, (18), 106-109.

Arndt, M.J., Horodynski, M.A. (2004) Theory of dependent care in research with parents of toddlers. The NEAT Project. Nursing Science Quarterly, 17, 345-350.

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