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Vidette Todaro-Franceschi, RN, PhD

Vidette Todaro-Franceschi, RN, PhD

Academic Title: Associate Professor and Adult Health Graduate Specialization Coordinator
Academic Affiliation:9 Hunter College
Preferred Email Address:9 vtodaro@hunter.cuny.edu
Telephone Number:9 212-481-444

Professional Interests:

End of Life Care, Ethics, Philosophies of Life, Living, Health, Healing, Death, and Dying, Spirituality, Nature, and AdultHealth. Of late, increasingly concerned with compassion fatigue.

Primary Teaching Areas:

Ethics, End of Life Care, Adult Health

Selected Publications:

Seminal Work

  • Todaro-Franceschi, V. (2006). Synchronicity Related to Dead Loved Ones: A Natural Healing Modality. Spirituality and Health International, 7, 151-161.
  • Todaro-Franceschi, V. (2001). Energy: A bridging concept for nursing science. Nursing Science Quarterly, 14, 132-140.
  • Todaro-Franceschi, V. (1999). The enigma of energy: Where science and religion converge. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Co.

Other:

  • Todaro-Franceschi, V. (2007). Imagining nursing practice in the year 2050: Looking through a Rogerian looking glass. Nursing Science Quarterly, 20, 229-231.
  • Todaro-Franceschi, V. (2006). Studying Synchronicity Related to Dead Loved Ones AKA After-Death Communication: Martha, What Do You Think? NSQ, 19, 297-299. Invited column.
  • Todaro-Franceschi, V. (2003). Mistakes in research: An appeal for tolerance. Nursing Science Quarterly, 16,110-113. Invited column.
  • Todaro-Franceschi, V. (2003). Letter to the editor. Nursing Science Quarterly, 16, 184-185.
  • Todaro-Franceschi, V. (2001). Further reflections on energy fields.  Nursing Science Quarterly, 14, 182-186.
  • Todaro-Franceschi, V. (2001). Pandimensional awareness, purposeful change and the kaleidoscopic cosmos. Visions: The Journal of Rogerian Nursing Science, 9, 52-57.
  • Todaro-Franceschi, V. (1999). The idea of energy as phenomenon and Rogerian science: Are they congruent? Visions: The Journal of Rogerian Nursing Science, 7 30-41.
  • Todaro-Franceschi, V. (1997). The enigma of energy: A philosophical inquiry.
    (Doctoral dissertation, New York University) (UMI No. 9819881)
  • Todaro-Franceschi, V. (1995). Must Acausality Imply Unpredictability? Visions: The Journal of Rogerian Nursing Science, 3, 46-50.
  • Todaro-Franceschi, V. (1995). Vascular disorders. In C. Paradiso (Ed.) Lippincott's Review Series: Pathophysiology (pp. 53-75). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott.
  • Todaro-Franceschi, V. (1991). Accuracy and feasibilty of measuring oral temperature in critically ill adults. Focus on Critical Care, 18, (3), 221-228.

Book Reviews:

  • Todaro-Franceschi, V. (2005). [Review of the book Evolutionary Healing]. Nursing Science Quarterly. (Invited review)
  • Todaro-Franceschi, V. (2000). [Review of the book For the Love of Children: Genetic
  • Technology and the Future of the Family ]. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, XII, 195-97. (Invited review)

Other:

Works in Progress:

  • Imagery, Spirituality, and the Healing Moment: Quality of Living, Quality of Dying at the End of Life, Co-PI with Violet Malinski, RN;PhD. Funded by the Russo Gift for Alternative Health Care, $20, 050. (Fall 2005, in progress)

Current Projects Under Review:

  • 2007 HRSA proposal for Advanced Practice Education CNL program submitted
    December, under review
  • 2008 Changing the Face of Death: A Pedagogic Intervention,
    under IRB review
  • 2008 Transforming Death Attitudes and Power as Knowing Participation in Change,
    under IRB review

Education:

  • AACN
  • Ph.D.
  • M.S.
  • B.S.N.
  • A.A.S.