Jan L. Meires

I've been a nurse practitioner (NP) for many years and an educator for more than two decades. Early in my career, my mentors taught me that good practitioners were life-long learners who kept abreast of the best clinical practices and were avid consumers of research in their fields. My mentors also helped me appreciate the synergistic relationships among teaching, clinical practice, scholarship and community service. I have used their teachings to guide my professional development.

The fundamental belief permeating my teaching philosophy is a deep sense that nursing education is transformational and that learning not only transforms the lives of students and faculty but also the communities. My goal is to provide an atmosphere of care and support as I respectfully ask students to evaluate concepts, formulate new perspectives and learn to think differently about the world around them. I strive to give students an opportunity to change their perspectives, examine beliefs, reveal attitudes and reformat assumptions to permit an integrative and holistic perspective of nursing practice. I believe my role as a facilitator is grounded in helping students “understand” the experience from a variety of viewpoints and across disciplines. My course/clinical assignments require critical reflection, discourse and action often resulting in a change in beliefs and practice patterns.

As a faculty member, I am encouraged to disseminate innovative, unique or creative scholarly works related to teaching, research and evidence based practice. The following documents my activities related to goal attainment, teaching accomplishments (outcomes) research and service.

Goals: My goals focused on continuously improving my teaching skills, submitting scholarly/creative works for publication and facilitating student publications related to my undergraduate course assignments.

Accomplishments: I have accomplished these goals related to my undergraduate course assignments by presenting papers at national meetings and by co-authoring two online book modules for a pathophysiology textbook.

NUR 3128 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology

Meires, J., Robinson, K. & Bloom, K. (2009, November). Infusing genomics into the baccalaureate curriculum. AACN Essentials for Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice, Paper presentation and abstract publication, Chicago, IL.

Meires, J., & Robinson, K. (2009). Neurology Module in Pathophysiology Made Simple Online. Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Robinson, K. & Meires, J. (2009). Hematology Module in Pathophysiology Made Simple Online.Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

NUR 4636 Community Clinical Partnerships and Homebase

Jones, R., & Meires, J. (2011, February). Music and the Mind. Southern Nurses Research Society Regional Symposium, Poster presentation and abstract publication, Jacksonville, FL.

Meires, J., Hoff, P. & Loriz, L. (2009, November). Focus on feet! AACN Essentials for BSN Education for Professional Nursing Practice, Paper presentation/abstract publication, Chicago, IL.

Meires, J., Hoff, P., & Kruger, B. (2008, December). Portrait of a homebase experience: Continuity in clinical nursing student practice. AACN Essentials for Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice, Paper presentation and abstract publication, San Antonio, TX.

Goals: My goals focused on continuously improving my teaching skills for graduate courses, submitting scholarly/creative works for publication and facilitating and graduate student publications related to my course assignments.

Accomplishments: I have accomplished these goals related to my graduate course assignments.

Graduate students enrolled in Advanced Practice Nursing 1 and II are required to submit a manuscript for publication in a peer reviewed, advanced nursing practice journal. Since 2007, several publications have resulted from engaging students in this transformational endeavor. Manuscripts by students as sole author or coauthor are listed below.

Supervised Manuscripts-graduate students as sole author

Belcon, A. (2011). Pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation: A concise overview. Advance for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants.

Pellum, R. (2010). Evidence based review on decision to breastfeed. Advance for Nurse Practitioners.

Pleaugh, A. (2010). Understanding, diagnosing, and treating medication overuse headaches: A case study. Advance for Nurse Practitioners.
Shapiro, S. (2010). EBP: Rehydration and refeeding in order infants and children with mild to moderate dehydration from acute diarrhea. Advance for Nurse Practitioners.

Steele, T. J. (2010). B12 deficiency: Is your patient on metformin? Clinician Reviews.

Smith, J. (2009). Determining Glycemic control: A new tool shows potential. Advance for Nurse Practitioners.

London, L. (2007). Levaquin induced tendonopathy: A case study. Advance for Nurse Practitioners.

Manuscripts with graduate students as co-authors

Allen, J., & Meires, J. (2011, Feb). How to prescribe Tai Chi therapy. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, vol 22, no 2.

Meires, J., & Humphries, M. Corrigan. (2011, Jan). Girl 6, with facial weakness. Clinician Reviews, vol 21, no 1.

Meires, J., & Louden, B. (2010, Dec). Bite of the brown recluse spider. Clinician Reviews, vol 20, no 12.

Meires, J., & Futch, B. (2010, Oct). Grand Rounds: Man, 72 with peeling penis. Clinician Reviews, vol 20, no 10.

Boudreaux, L., & Meires, J. (2009, Sept). Grand Rounds: Man 29 with throat obstruction. Clinician Reviews, vol 19, no 8.

Christopher, Gina, & Meires, J. (2008). Acute Case of Psoriasis. The Nurse Practitioner, vol 33, no 7.

I was honored to present the model related to graduate student publications as a transformational learning experience and our outcomes as a podium presentation at national meetings last spring.

Meires, J. & FNP Faculty. (2010, Feb). The UNF SON Transformational Learning Model: Fostering NP Student Publications in Peer Reviewed Nurse Practitioner Journals. AACN Essentials for Masters Education for Professional Nursing Practice, New Orleans.

Meires, J., Christie, C., & Ledbetter, C. (2011, April). Interprofessional Education: Using an interdisciplinary team to teach graduate students to manage low income clients with metabolic syndrome. NONPF Highway to the future: Driving NP education, Albuquerque. NONPF

I also work with a number of graduate students as they create evidence based documents for projects and theses. Table 1 depicts graduate students projects/thesis by student name, date, topic and type of work.

Table 1. Graduate Projects/Thesis by student, date, topic and role (2007-2011).

Student, Date, Topic (Abbreviated), Type of Work/Role

Wheeler 2011 Immunizations Thesis (chair)
Thrapp 2011 Smoking Cessation Project (chair)
Hill 2011 Total Knee Replacement Project (chair)
Maple 2011 Osteoporosis Project (chair)
Armstrong 2010 Derm/tools DNP Project (member)
Schreibner 2010 Migraine Headache Project (chair)
Abarran 2010 Prostate Cancer screening Project (chair)
Fuller 2010 Colon Cancer screening Project (chair)
Lewis 2010 CVA rehab Project (chair)
Shellenback 2010 CAM treatment migraine HA Project (chair)
Wainwright 2009 ED/Early CV marker Project (chair)
Owens 2009 Adolescent skin CA Project (chair)
Kahill 2009 Diabetic Foot Project (chair)
Woznick 2009 Evaluating Ca++ intake Thesis (member)
Boudreax 2009 Risk for Colon CA in AA Project (chair)
Grifo 2008 Humor as medicine Project (chair)
Belcon 2008 Smoking Cessation Lit Review Project (chair)
George 2008 Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Project (chair)
Plastic Surgery
Kinder 2008 HTN Management in AA Project (chair)
Pellum 2008 Decision to Breastfeed Project (chair)
Pleaugh 2008 Outcomes Comparison Project (chair)
Family MD/NP
Yates 2008 Interventions for MRSA Project (chair)
Roberts 2007 Childhood Obesity in NE FL Project (chair)
Curtis 2007 Overview Multiple Sclerosis Project (chair)
London 2007 St. John’s Wort, Integrated Project (chair)
Literature Review
Walling 2007 QoL in Heart Failure Thesis (chair)