College of Nursing
When
Where
College of Nursing, Room 470
1305 N. Martin Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721
Contact Debra McMaster at mcmaster@arizona.edu for the meeting link to join by Zoom.
Event Description
The College of Nursing is pleased to have Candace Burton, PhD, RN, AFN-BC, FAAN, present as a visiting scholar.
Presenter details
Candace Burton, PhD, RN, AFN-BC, FAAN
Associate Professor
Interim Dean for Advanced Education
University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Nursing
Burton is an associate professor and the interim associate dean for advanced education in nursing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research focuses on stress and trauma, particularly in the context of health disparities, and she is the faculty liaison for the UNLV Interdisciplinary Research Development Area in Addictions. Burton is a trained qualitative and mixed methodologist, and has published on the social determinants of health, structural violence, the trauma of violence and abuse, and nursing education on vulnerable populations. She holds undergraduate degrees in studies in women and gender and in nursing from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in nursing research from the University of California, San Francisco. Burton is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in Advanced Forensic Nursing, and holds a post-graduate certificate in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from Cornell University. Burton’s innovative work has received both national and international attention from diverse audiences of advocates, researchers and community-based care providers. She practices as a consulting forensic nurse, and her research has been funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation among others. She teaches at all levels of nursing education on topics including care of vulnerable populations, the social determinants of health and qualitative and research mixed methodologies.