Rate My Professor Sonja Meiers

Dr. Meiers specializes in family theory and research, research methods, nursing theory development, evidence-based practice methods, family nursing, family health, caregivers, children and families in the context of substance use disorder, nurse-family interaction, caring in the family health experience, community-based participatory research, measure development, and international collaboration. Her contributions have been recognized with awards including Fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing (2020), American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Leaders in Academic Nursing Fellowship (2020-2021), Midwest Nursing Research Society Abstract Award (2024), University of Wisconsin System Research Development Grant Writing Academy Fellow (2023-2024), Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Faculty Research Forum (2024), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/American Association of Colleges of Nursing Innovations in Graduate Population Health Curriculum Award (2016). Key publications feature "Nursing strategies to mitigate separation between hospitalized acute and critical care patients and families: A scoping review" (Intensive & Critical Care Nursing, 2024), "Enhancement of preoperative mental health assessment through clinical nurse specialist project leadership" (Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2024), "Pediatric end-of-life simulation workshop to clinical care: Lasting implications on clinical practice" (Palliative Medicine Reports, 2024), "Measuring family members’ experiences of integrating chronic illness into family life: Preliminary validity and reliability of the Family Integration Experience Scale: Chronic Illness (FIES:CI)" (Journal of Family Nursing, 2020), and "Supporting children and kinship caregivers in the context of substance use disorder: Perspectives of key professionals" (Journal of Family Issues, 2021). She provided presidential leadership for the International Family Nursing Association (2019-2021).