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Mirinda Tyo, PhD '19
Assistant Professor
College of Nursing & Health Sciences / Adult
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Education
| 2019 | University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, MA | PhD |
| 2011 | University of North Alabama - Florence, AL | MSN |
| 2004 | University of North Alabama - Florence, AL | BSN |
| 2001 | Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College – Gulfport, MS | ASN |
Teaching
- NUR 780 Doctoral Seminar
- NUR 450 Complex Health Problems
Programs
Courses
Focuses on nursing care of adult clients experiencing complex health problems, those with unpredictable outcomes, consistent with the ANA (2004) Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice. Therapeutic interventions address the nurse's leadership role of promoting health, guiding the person, and shaping the health environment through advocacy, multidisciplinary collaboration, evaluation of outcomes and effective management of resources. Socio-environmental factors influencing the person, nurse and health care decisions are analyzed.
Six-semester sequence orients and socializes the PhD in nursing student to the role of the nurse scholar educator through 1) seminars and forums on scholarship in chronic illness management and nursing education and on research methods; and 2) a formal mentor relationship with a designated research faculty member. This course sequence also addresses the identification of funding sources and the development of grantsmanship skills. The development of this course is guided by the AACN The Research-Focused Doctoral Program in Nursing: Pathways to Excellence (2022) document. This course includes synchronous distance learning through computer-assisted technology.
Six-semester sequence orients and socializes the PhD in nursing student to the role of the nurse scholar educator through 1) seminars and forums on scholarship in chronic illness management and nursing education and on research methods; and 2) a formal mentor relationship with a designated research faculty member. This course sequence also addresses the identification of funding sources and the development of grantsmanship skills. The development of this course is guided by the AACN The Research-Focused Doctoral Program in Nursing: Pathways to Excellence (2022) document. This course includes synchronous distance learning through computer-assisted technology.
Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area covered in a regular course not currently being offered. Conditions and hours to be arranged.
Online and Continuing Education Courses
Provides advanced knowledge of pharmacologic agents related to advanced nursing practice across the lifespan. Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of a wide range of pharmacologic agents are considered. Patient motivation and adherence to regimes, individual responses to therapeutic regimens, and patient teaching will be explored. Clinical pharmacological concerns related to psychological, aging, psychosocial, economic, cultural, ethical, and legal factors will be addressed.
Research
Research activities
- Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts Grant: Novel Organizational Simulation Training to Improve Graduate’s Mastery & Attitudes (No Stigma): A stepwise simulation intervention to reduce opioid use disorder stigma in undergraduate and graduate nursing students
- Community Engaged Research Partnership Initiative Fellowship: Community Based Participatory Research to Promote Resilience in Families of Individuals with Substance Use Disorder
- Theta Kappa Research Committee Grant: Exploring the Needs of Family Caregivers of Individuals with SUD During COVID-19
- Exploring the needs of family caregivers of individuals with SUD: An E-Delphi study.
- Secondary data analysis of Parkinson’s UK dataset
Research awards
- $ 20,313 awarded by Michael J. Fox Foundation for Understanding meaningful symptoms of Parkinson's Disease from the perspective of patients and caregivers
Research interests
- Caregiver Burden and Resilience
- Substance Use Disorder
- Parkinson's Disease
- Transition to Practice
- Clinical Reasoning
Select publications
See curriculum vitae for more publications
- Mammen, J.R., Tyo, M., & Seshardri, S. (2025).
Perspective mapping: Tutorial for collecting quantifiable qualitative interview data.
Journal Medical Internet Research, 27, e72622. - Tyo, M., and McCurry, M. K. (2025).
Nursing Education Perspectives
Nursing Education Perspectives, 40, 11-17. - Brown Tyo, M., McCurry, M., Horowitz, J., & Elliot, K. (2023).
Predictors of burden and resilience in family caregivers of individuals with opioid use disorder.
Journal of Nursing Addiction, 34, E8 - E20. - McCurry, M., Avery-Desmarais, S., Schuler, M., Tyo, M., Viveiros, J., Kauranen, B. (2022).
Perceived stigma, barriers, and facilitators experienced by members of the opioid use disorder community when seeking healthcare.
Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 55, 701 - 710. - Tyo, M. & McCurry, M. (2020).
An integrative review of measuring caregiver burden in substance use disorder.
Nursing Research, 69, 391 - 398.
My program of research focuses on understanding the experiences of family members impacted by chronic illnesses and the factors that influence their health and well-being, such as caregiver burden, caregiver resilience, stress, and stigma. Family caregivers represent a large, underserved population and my research goal is for healthcare providers and policymakers to better understand how to help family caregivers improve their resilience and quality of life, so they can continue with essential caregiving duties. I served as a primary investigator for several studies on family caregivers of individuals with substance use disorder, a CO-PI for a large foundation study to address opioid-related stigma, and a CO-PI for a foundation study for measuring quality of life in people with Parkinson’s disease (PD). I have extensive expertise in the use of novel mixed methods, including symptom mapping, which will be used in the current study. Symptom mapping is an interviewing technique used to co-create a visual map of the lived experience of a phenomenon of interest (i.e. experiences of PD, Huntington’s disease (HD) within measurable quantitative frameworks. The technique generates quantitative data about symptoms (e.g., prevalence), and qualitative information to characterize the lived experience. I served as lead data analyst on three perspective mapping studies and as a qualitative interviewer for family members of individuals with Huntington’s disease. My quantitative expertise includes multivariate analysis, predictive modeling, and theoretical framework development and testing. Lastly, I bring over 25 years of clinical expertise caring for individuals with chronic illness. My experience includes being a board-certified family nurse practitioner, nurse educator, nursing supervisor, and board-certified trauma nurse, which informs my approaches to patient-centered research.