Amber Vermeesch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amber Vermeesch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amber |
| FAMILY NAME | Vermeesch |
| SIGNATURE | VERMEESCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7560-4787 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Enhancing Nurse Practitioner Graduates' Transition to Practice Through an Innovative Statewide Collaboration of Academic and Professional Organizations
BACKGROUND: Nurse practitioners (NP) are among the fastest-growing occupations in the United States. NPs provide high-quality care and promote health equity by bridging critical gaps in health care delivery. Despite this essential role, new graduates report feeling inadequately prepared as they transition to clinical practice. METHOD: To address this, a steering committee of NP program leaders in North Carolina developed a pilot project to improv…
A Nature-Based Intervention to Support the Well-Being of Baccalaureate Nursing Students
Background: The high stress of nursing education can adversely affect students' well-being. Nature-based therapies aim to lessen stress. There is a gap in knowledge related to nature-based therapies and the nursing student population. The aims of this study were: (1) to describe the well-being of nursing students; and (2) to assess the effects of a nature-based intervention on students' anxiety, stress, relatedness, resilience, and well-being. Me…
Group Nature-Based Mindfulness Interventions
The mental health crisis across college campuses is accelerating, with anxiety listed as the top mental health issue for undergraduate college students. Although evidence suggests the COVID-19 pandemic escalated the mental health crisis on college campuses, pre-COVID-19 anxiety among college students was on the rise. Research supports Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBIs) to reduce anxiety among college students. Additionally, exposure to natura…
Piloting the Perfect Storm
Background: A private university nursing program established the Initiative for Vital Practice in response to increasing levels of compassion fatigue (CF) and burnout among faculty and staff during an undergraduate program revision and accompanying leadership transitions. Method: A pilot mixed-method project evaluated self-management practices meant to mitigate CF among faculty and staff. Results: Faculty and staff ( N = 34) identified four prima…
Nursing Students and the Human Body
This manuscript offers findings from a pilot project which prepares nursing students for embodied professional practice through the lens of ethics. Four undergraduate nursing students were mentored by two nursing faculty in the Dundon-Berchtold Institute Faculty Fellowship Program in the Application of Ethics through an exploration on the ethics of embodiment using an arts pedagogy across one academic year. Inspired by the intersection of nature …
Nature-Based Feasibility Intervention to Influence Mitigation Strategies for Perceived Stress
Burnout, compassion fatigue, and perceived stress among undergraduate nursing students are significant factors leading to a poorer quality of life, decreased job satisfaction, and adversely impact patient outcomes. Burnout among undergraduate nursing students is a critical individual and workforce issue with contributing factors including a relentless schedule, academically challenging and rigorous programs, pressure to perform, and the completio…
Expanding the Mind–Body–Environment Connection to Enhance the Development of Cultural Humility
The unique health care needs of diverse individuals and communities are complex. To meet these needs, healthcare professionals are being called upon to alter traditional ways of thinking, perceiving, and acting in order to create more inclusive environments. Research shows that using mindsight, a process that increases both insight and empathy, can enhance an individual's mind-body-environment connection, increase self-awareness, and promote the …
Integrative Wellness Approaches to Mitigate Perceived Stress, Increase Vitality, and Build Community during Covid-19
Through pilot testing, this project demonstrated feasibility for future wellness pods interventions for faculty and staff at schools of nursing. Future research is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of the wellness pods intervention
Girls on the Move” intervention protocol for increasing physical activity among low-active underserved urban girls
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT01503333
Birthplace, Culture, Self-Esteem, and Intimate Partner Violence Among Community-Dwelling Hispanic Women
The purpose of this study was to explore variations in demographics, culture, self-esteem, and intimate partner violence among Hispanic women according to birthplace, and to identify factors associated with these differences in intimate partner violence (IPV). Baseline data from a randomized control trial testing the efficacy of an HIV prevention program were used. Path analyses identified differences in IPV between Colombian women and women from…
Cultural Phenomena and the Syndemic Factor
Researchers exploring the health of Hispanics in South Florida utilizing a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods have identified that substance abuse, violence, risky sexual behavior, and depression are not only conceptualized as tightly interrelated health and social problems, but also hold together in a measurement model to represent an underlying phenomenon (i.e., the Syndemic Factor). The purpose of this study is to tes…
Cultural Phenomena and the Syndemic Factor
Researchers exploring the health of Hispanics in South Florida utilizing a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods have identified that substance abuse, violence, risky sexual behavior, and depression are not only conceptualized as tightly interrelated health and social problems, but also hold together in a measurement model to represent an underlying phenomenon (i.e., the Syndemic Factor). The purpose of this study is to tes…
Birthplace, Culture, Self-Esteem, and Intimate Partner Violence Among Community-Dwelling Hispanic Women
The purpose of this study was to explore variations in demographics, culture, self-esteem, and intimate partner violence among Hispanic women according to birthplace, and to identify factors associated with these differences in intimate partner violence (IPV). Baseline data from a randomized control trial testing the efficacy of an HIV prevention program were used. Path analyses identified differences in IPV between Colombian women and women from…
Cultural Phenomena and the Syndemic Factor
Researchers exploring the health of Hispanics in South Florida utilizing a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods have identified that substance abuse, violence, risky sexual behavior, and depression are not only conceptualized as tightly interrelated health and social problems, but also hold together in a measurement model to represent an underlying phenomenon (i.e., the Syndemic Factor). The purpose of this study is to tes…
Girls on the Move” intervention protocol for increasing physical activity among low-active underserved urban girls
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT01503333
Birthplace, Culture, Self-Esteem, and Intimate Partner Violence Among Community-Dwelling Hispanic Women
The purpose of this study was to explore variations in demographics, culture, self-esteem, and intimate partner violence among Hispanic women according to birthplace, and to identify factors associated with these differences in intimate partner violence (IPV). Baseline data from a randomized control trial testing the efficacy of an HIV prevention program were used. Path analyses identified differences in IPV between Colombian women and women from…
Piloting the Perfect Storm
Background: A private university nursing program established the Initiative for Vital Practice in response to increasing levels of compassion fatigue (CF) and burnout among faculty and staff during an undergraduate program revision and accompanying leadership transitions. Method: A pilot mixed-method project evaluated self-management practices meant to mitigate CF among faculty and staff. Results: Faculty and staff ( N = 34) identified four prima…
Nursing Students and the Human Body
This manuscript offers findings from a pilot project which prepares nursing students for embodied professional practice through the lens of ethics. Four undergraduate nursing students were mentored by two nursing faculty in the Dundon-Berchtold Institute Faculty Fellowship Program in the Application of Ethics through an exploration on the ethics of embodiment using an arts pedagogy across one academic year. Inspired by the intersection of nature …
Nature-Based Feasibility Intervention to Influence Mitigation Strategies for Perceived Stress
Burnout, compassion fatigue, and perceived stress among undergraduate nursing students are significant factors leading to a poorer quality of life, decreased job satisfaction, and adversely impact patient outcomes. Burnout among undergraduate nursing students is a critical individual and workforce issue with contributing factors including a relentless schedule, academically challenging and rigorous programs, pressure to perform, and the completio…
Expanding the Mind–Body–Environment Connection to Enhance the Development of Cultural Humility
The unique health care needs of diverse individuals and communities are complex. To meet these needs, healthcare professionals are being called upon to alter traditional ways of thinking, perceiving, and acting in order to create more inclusive environments. Research shows that using mindsight, a process that increases both insight and empathy, can enhance an individual's mind-body-environment connection, increase self-awareness, and promote the …
Integrative Wellness Approaches to Mitigate Perceived Stress, Increase Vitality, and Build Community during Covid-19
Through pilot testing, this project demonstrated feasibility for future wellness pods interventions for faculty and staff at schools of nursing. Future research is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of the wellness pods intervention
Group Nature-Based Mindfulness Interventions
The mental health crisis across college campuses is accelerating, with anxiety listed as the top mental health issue for undergraduate college students. Although evidence suggests the COVID-19 pandemic escalated the mental health crisis on college campuses, pre-COVID-19 anxiety among college students was on the rise. Research supports Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBIs) to reduce anxiety among college students. Additionally, exposure to natura…
A Nature-Based Intervention to Support the Well-Being of Baccalaureate Nursing Students
Background: The high stress of nursing education can adversely affect students' well-being. Nature-based therapies aim to lessen stress. There is a gap in knowledge related to nature-based therapies and the nursing student population. The aims of this study were: (1) to describe the well-being of nursing students; and (2) to assess the effects of a nature-based intervention on students' anxiety, stress, relatedness, resilience, and well-being. Me…
Enhancing Nurse Practitioner Graduates' Transition to Practice Through an Innovative Statewide Collaboration of Academic and Professional Organizations
BACKGROUND: Nurse practitioners (NP) are among the fastest-growing occupations in the United States. NPs provide high-quality care and promote health equity by bridging critical gaps in health care delivery. Despite this essential role, new graduates report feeling inadequately prepared as they transition to clinical practice. METHOD: To address this, a steering committee of NP program leaders in North Carolina developed a pilot project to improv…
Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Intervention (counseling (4 works) · Medical education (4 works) · Psychological intervention (4 works) · Applied Psychology (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works)