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iba Wehbe-Alamah, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, CTN-A is Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, School of Health Professions and Studies, University of Michigan-Flint.
Dr. Wehbe-Alamah earned her PhD in Nursing and her Post Master’s in Transcultural Nursing from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Master of Science in Nursing (Family Nurse Practitioner Track) and Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw, Michigan. She has also earned a certification as a transcultural nurse - advanced.
A member of the Transcultural Nursing Society (TCNS), National American Arab Nurses Association (NAANA), National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF), Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners (MICNP), Michigan Nurses Association (MNA), and a career-long member of Sigma Theta Tau International, Dr. Wehbe-Alamah has presented, guest-lectured, and/or published in the United States, Australia, Europe (Germany), and the Middle East (Lebanon).
Dr. Wehbe-Alamah is actively involved in the planning and implementation of a three-year federally-funded Nurse Education, Practice, and Retention project titled Developing Nurses’ Cultural Competencies: Evidence-Based and Best Practices [July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2011 for $1 million]. She has also assisted with the writing of this grant. As a member of the Transcultural Nursing Certification Commission, she is currently co-developing an international online certification exam for advanced transcultural nurses worldwide. In addition, she is presently developing the first computer-based transcultural nursing simulation game.
As the graduate curriculum committee chair at UM-Flint, she continues to play a key role in developing the DNP curriculum and program. She teaches nursing at both the graduate and undergraduate levels focusing on women’s health and transcultural health care, conducts and chairs several qualitative research projects with graduate nursing students every semester, and advises students enrolled in the Honors Program. Her clinical practice centers on women’s health and the underinsured at the Saginaw County Department of Public Health.
Dr. Wehbe-Alamah’s scholarly and research interests include technology use in the academic setting, academic success and cultural competence for undergraduate and graduate students, nurses, and faculty, as well as African American and Middle Eastern health and well-being, health disparities, cultural healers and generic/folk beliefs and practices.
, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, CTN-A is Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, School of Health Professions and Studies, University of Michigan-Flint.
Dr. Wehbe-Alamah earned her PhD in Nursing and her Post Master’s in Transcultural Nursing from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Master of Science in Nursing (Family Nurse Practitioner Track) and Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw, Michigan. She has also earned a certification as a transcultural nurse - advanced.
A member of the Transcultural Nursing Society (TCNS), National American Arab Nurses Association (NAANA), National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF), Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners (MICNP), Michigan Nurses Association (MNA), and a career-long member of Sigma Theta Tau International, Dr. Wehbe-Alamah has presented, guest-lectured, and/or published in the United States, Australia, Europe (Germany), and the Middle East (Lebanon).
Dr. Wehbe-Alamah is actively involved in the planning and implementation of a three-year federally-funded Nurse Education, Practice, and Retention project titled Developing Nurses’ Cultural Competencies: Evidence-Based and Best Practices [July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2011 for $1 million]. She has also assisted with the writing of this grant. As a member of the Transcultural Nursing Certification Commission, she is currently co-developing an international online certification exam for advanced transcultural nurses worldwide. In addition, she is presently developing the first computer-based transcultural nursing simulation game.
As the graduate curriculum committee chair at UM-Flint, she continues to play a key role in developing the DNP curriculum and program. She teaches nursing at both the graduate and undergraduate levels focusing on women’s health and transcultural health care, conducts and chairs several qualitative research projects with graduate nursing students every semester, and advises students enrolled in the Honors Program. Her clinical practice centers on women’s health and the underinsured at the Saginaw County Department of Public Health.
Dr. Wehbe-Alamah’s scholarly and research interests include technology use in the academic setting, academic success and cultural competence for undergraduate and graduate students, nurses, and faculty, as well as African American and Middle Eastern health and well-being, health disparities, cultural healers and generic/folk beliefs and practices.
