UB School of Nursing

Degree and Title: DNS, RN, Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies & Doctoral Programs

Address:
School of Nursing
University at Buffalo
914 Kimball Tower
3435 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14214-3079

Phone: 716-829-3254

E-Mail Address: sdickers@buffalo.edu

Personal Homepage: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~sdickers/

Education:
DNS, Nursing, State University of New York at Buffalo
MS, Adult Health CNS Cardio/Resp, State University of New York at Buffalo
BS, Nursing, Niagara University

Area of Research:
Patient/technology interaction, Help seeking in support groups and on the Internet.
Cancer patients Internet use.

Teaching Responsibilities:
NUR 371 Health Care Delivery Perspectives
NUR 440 Nursing Leadership
NUR 704 History and Issues in Nursing
NUR 518 Health Promotion and Risk Reduction
NUR 737 Advanced Information Technology Seminar
NUR 738 Special Topics: Interpretive Phenomenolgy

Publications:

Dickerson, S. S., Boehmke, M., Ogle, C., & Brown, J. K. (2006). Seeking and managing hope: Oncology patients’ experiences using the Internet for cancer care. Oncology Nursing Forum. [Databased, refereed]

Boehmke, M., & Dickerson, S.S. (2005). Symptom, symptom experiences, and symptom distress encountered by women with breast cancer undergoing current treatment modalities. Cancer Nursing 28(5), .

Dickerson, S. S., Boehmke, M., Ogle, C., &. Brown, J. K. (2005). Out of necessity: Oncology nurses experiences integrating the Internet into practice. Oncology Nursing Forum, 32(2), 355-362. [Databased]

Dickerson, S. S. (2005). Patient/Technology Interactions: Internet use for gaining a healthy context for living with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator ICD. Heart & Lung, 34(3), 157-168. [Databased]

Dickerson, S. S., Reinhart, A., Feeley, T. H., Bidani, R., Rich, E., Garg, V., &
Hershey C. O. (2004). Patient Internet use for health information at three urban primary care clinics.The Journal of American Medical Informatics Association.
11(6),499-504. [Databased]

Honors and Awards:
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching 2003
First Annual Deans Award for Excellence in Teaching 1997