Heather Naylor, PhD, MSN, FNP-BC

Position

Assistant Professor

Articles

• Nursing Reports
  Heather Naylor, Cynthia Hadenfeldt, Patricia Timmons Novice nurses’ experiences caring for acutely ill patients during a pandemic.
  11(2), p. 382-394 2021
• Nursing Education Perspectives
  Hadenfeldt, C, Naylor, H., Aufdenkamp, M. Escape the pharmacy: An active learning strategy for the nursing pharmacology classroom 2020
• Health, Interprofessional Practice, and Education
  Hadenfeldt, C.J., Naylor, H.M., Jessen, J.L., Banzhaf, S., Martens-Stricklett, K. Addressing the opioid epidemic: Strategies for interprofessional health education.
  4(1), p. e2131 2020

Presentations

• Multimodal Pain Management of the Complex Patient with Acute Pain. Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society, Pharmacology Day. Virtual Podium Presentation 2023
• American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Fall Conference in Anaheim, CA Podium Presentation Acute Pain Management of the Complex Hospitalized Patient 2022
• Arizona Nurses Association Convention Poster presentation of original research, Novice Nurses' Experiences Caring for Acutely Ill Patients During a Pandemic. 2021
• Poster presentation, Novice Nurses Experiences Caring for Acutely Ill Patients During a Pandemic: Implications for Educators. Innovation Summit for Helath Professions Education, Omaha, NE 2021
• Invited to present poster at University of Missouri PhD On-Campus Days Student Postcard Poster Presentation, A Nurse Practitioner's View of Pain Management of Hospitalized Patients in the context of the opioid epidemic: A qualitative inquiry - won Best Poster presentation. 2021
• Invited to present grant presentation at University of Missouri PhD On-Campus Days regarding my dissertation research, Maximizing placebo effect to improve post-operative outcomes: A pre-operative education intervention. 2021
• Invited to present original research at CUCON Scholarly Forum with my research team. Novice Nurses' Experiences Caring for Acutely Ill Patients During a Pandemic. 2021
• Invited Keynote Speaker for Sigma Theta Tau Iota Tau's 31st Annual Research Days as Creighton College of Nursing in Omaha, NE. "Pain and the Power of Suggestion." 2020
• Poster Presentation at Midwest Nursing Research Society annual conference. "Addressing the Opioid Use Epidemic: Strategies for an Interprofessional Approach." 2020
• Lead presenter at Nurse Educator's Conference in the Rockies. I will be lead presenter with Cindy Hadenfeldt and Marillee Aufdenkamp on a flipped classroom activity I developed for Pharmacology, Escape The Pharmacy, where participants learn analgesic content by solving a series of puzzle-clues focusing on maximum dose and adverse effects of various classes of analgesic medications, recognition of opioid oversedation, and review of opioid receptors. 2019
• Crash Course: Pain Management of the Hospitalized Patient in Pain and Non-Pharmacologic Approaches - presented to Creighton Medical Students (M4) 2019
• When Your Patient Takes Opioids: Prescribing Risks and Tapering Strategies - Dignity Health Pain Symposium 2018
• Opioid Tapering presentation for providers in the Arizona Service Area for Dignity Health designed to meet new Arizona Continuing Medical Education requirement for opioid prescribing in Arizona. 2017
• Palliative Care vs. Pain Management - Dignity Health Pain Symposium 2016
• Multimodal Analgesia in Acute Care - Arizona Society of Peri-Anesthesia Nurses Conference in Tucson, AZ 2016
• Principles of Multimodal Analgesia and Non-Pharmacologic Approaches - Barrow Neurological Institute Nursing Symposium 2015
• Safe Use of Opioids in Hospitals presentation to Dignity Health Quality Committee 2015
• Putting the Purpose into the Practice of Pain Management: Case Studies in Acute Care - Dignity Health Pain Symposium 2014
• Advanced, Clinically Relevant Case Studies in Pain Management - Dignity Health Pain Symposium 2013