Education

Teaching

• Health promotion theory and research
• Community Health Nursing
• Concepts of the Professional Nursing Role
• Concepts of Lifespan and Development

Teaching

Programs

Programs

• Nursing BS
• Nursing PhD

Research

Research activities

• "Establishing Best Practices in Telehealth for People with Developmental Disabilities", funded by the WITH Foundation
• Medical Surgical Nursing Care of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities (MSNCAID study), in partnership with Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the Academy of Medical Surgical Nurses
• Impact of COVID-19 on the health and well-being of people with developmental disabilities through the lens of the developmental disability nurse
• International collaboration to articulate the contribution of the developmental disability nurse
• Intervention development to promote the resilience of the direct support professional workforce for people with developmental disabilities

Research

Research awards

• $ 35,000 awarded by WITH Foundation for Establishing Best Practices in Telehealth Care for Adults with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities

Research

Research interests

• Articulating and strengthening the voice of intellectual/developmental disability nursing
• Improving health equity of people with developmental disabilities, with special attention to the impact of healthcare provider bias and quality of care
• Supporting the resilience of people with developmental disabilities and their formal and informal caregivers

Select publications

See curriculum vitae for more publications

• Desroches, M. L., Fisher, K., Ailey, S., & Stych, J. (in press).
  "We were absolutely in the dark": Manifest content analysis of developmental disability nurses' experiences during the early COVID-19 pandemic."
  Global Qualitative Nursing Research
  
• Desroches, M.L., Howie, V.A., Wilson, N. J., Lewis, P. (in press).
  Nurses’ attitudes and emotions toward caring for adults with intellectual disability: an international replication study.
  Journal of Nursing Scholarship
  
• Desroches, M. L., Ailey, S.H., Fisher, K., & Stych, J. (2021).
  Impact of COVID-19: Nursing challenges to meeting the care needs of people with developmental disabilities
  Disability and Health Journal, 14, 10105.
  
• Desroches, M. L. (2020).
  Facebook recruitment of nurses as research participants: Methodological considerations
  Applied Nursing Research, 54, 151282.
  
• Desroches, M. L. (2019).
  Nurses' attitudes, beliefs, and emotions toward caring for adults with intellectual disabilities: An integrative review
  Nursing Forum, 55, 211-222.
  

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