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Laura Jean Duckett, PhD MPH RN
Position: Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Organization: University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Office Address
5-160 WDH, Del Code 1331
308 Harvard Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Home Address
343 Wyndham Circle West
New Brighton, MN 55112
Office Phone: 612-624-9160
Home Phone: 651-636-8032
Mobile Phone: 651-329-2447
Email Address: ducke001@umn.edu
Educational Background
BSN, Duke University, 1967, Nursing; MS, University of Maryland, 1975, Maternal Child Nursing; PhD, University of Minnesota, 1983, Educational Psychology, Supportive Field Child Psychology; MPH, University of Minnesota, 2001, Maternal and Child Health
Brief Biography
Laura Duckett, BSN, MS, PhD, MPH, has been a faculty member in the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota since 1977. Her educational preparation is in nursing, educational psychology, child psychology, and public health. She is a senior member of the Graduate School faculty for the graduate programs in Nursing and the graduate minor in Complementary Therapies and Healing Practices. Her clinical background in nursing and public health is maternal-child health. Her research and professional writing have been focused on postpartum adaptations for families of full-term and premature infants, breastfeeding, infant nutrition, maternal employment during the first postpartum year, combining employment outside the home and breastfeeding, maternal-infant attachment, and nurse screening for domestic abuse. A current research interest is testing the efficacy of Reiki in relation to selected developmental outcomes of premature infants.
Teaching Areas
- Ethics (to nursing master's and PhD students)
- Research (to nursing master's and PhD students)
- Critiquing complementary therapies research (to graduate students in the complementary therapies minor through the CSH)
- Scholarly Teaching and Learning in Nursing (to Doctor of Nursing Practice
Students)
Research Interests
Breastfeeding behaviors in full-term and pre-term infants; breastfeeding and maternal employment; breastfeeding and infant health; infant growth; maternal, infant and family health during the first postpartum year; parent-infant attachment; moral reasoning development; theory of planned behavior; testing a Reiki intervention with premature infants
Selected Publications
Robertson, C. & Duckett, L. (In Press). Mothering during war and post-war in Bosnia. Journal of Family Nursing.
Garcia, C., Duckett, L, Saewyc, E., and Bearinger, L. (In Press). Perceptions of Health among Immigrant Latino Adolescents from Mexico.
Journal of Holistic Nursing.
Dodgson, J. E., Henly, S., Duckett, L. & Tarrant, M. (2003). Theory of planned behavior models for breastfeeding duration among Hong Kong mothers.
Nursing Research, 52(3), 148-158.
Dodgson, J. E., Duckett, L.J., Garwick, A. & Graham, B.L. (2002). An ecological perspective of breastfeeding within an indigenous community.
Journal of Nursing Scholarship,34(3), 235-241.
O'Boyle, C.A., Henly, S.J., & Duckett, L.J. (2001). Nurses= motivation to wash their hands: A standardized measurement approach. Applied Nursing Research,14(3), 136-145.
Avery, M., Duckett, L., Dodgson, J., Savik, K., & Henly, S. (1998). Factors associated with very early weaning among primiparas intending to breastfeed. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2 (3), 167-179.
Duckett, L., Henly, S., Avery, M., Potter, S., Hills-Bonczyk, S., Hulden, R. & Savik, K. (1998). A theory of planned behavior-based structural model for breastfeeding. Nursing Research,47(6), 325-336.
Duckett, L., Rowan, M., Ryden, M., Krichbaum, K., Miller, M., Savik, K., & Wainwright, H. (1997). Progress in moral reasoning of baccalaureate nursing students between program entry and graduation. Nursing Research, 46(4), 222-229.
Dodgson, J., & Duckett, L. (1997). Building a program to support breastfeeding women in the workplace. American Association of Occupational Health Nursing Journal, 45(6), 290-297.
Duckett, L., Henly, S., & Garvis, M. (1993). Predicting breast-feeding duration during the postpartum hospitalization. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 15(2), 177-193.
Duckett, L., Ryden, M., Waithe, M.E., Schmitz, K., Caplan, A., & Crisham, P. (1990). Ethics education for professional students. Thought and Action: The NEA Higher Education Journal, 6(1), 77-84.
Ryden, M., Duckett, L., Crisham, P., Caplan, A., & Schmitz, K. (1989). Multi-course sequential learning as a model for content integration: Ethics as a prototype. Journal of Nursing Education, 28(3), 102-106.
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