Education

Teaching

• NUR 553 Pharmacology for Advance Nursing Practice
• NUR 457 Nursing Care of Complex Health Problems
• NUR 455 Experiential Learning Senior Mentorship
• NUR 352 Concepts of Adult Health Nursing
• NUR 270 Concepts of Foundational Nursing

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

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

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

• Tyo, M., and McCurry, M. K. (2018).
  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.
  
• Tyo, M.B., & McCurry, M.K. (2023).
  e-Delphi study: Expert consensus on the needs and resources available to family caregivers of individuals with substance use disorder.
  Substance Use and Misuse, Pub ahead of print
  

Mirinda Tyo, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a board-certified trauma nurse, clinical educator, and nurse leader. She has over 20 years of clinical expertise caring for patients with chronic illness. Her program of research focuses on understanding the experiences of family members impacted by chronic illnesses and the factors that influence their health and wellbeing, such as caregiver burden, caregiver resilience, stress, and stigma. Family caregivers represent a large underserved population and her research goal is for healthcare providers and policy makers to better understand how to help family caregivers improve their resilience and quality of life, so they can continue with essential caregiving duties.

Additional links

• Research Gate
• Google Scholar
• International Family Nursing Association
• UMassD No Stigma Nursing Research

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