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Shena Gazaway

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Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Birmingham, AL 35294-0001

United States
Birmingham, AL 35294-0001

United States

Shena Gazaway PhD, RN is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. As a registered nurse working within the community, her practice experience stimulated her research interest in supporting upstream decision-making of seriously ill patients and families, particularly those who live in built environments that limit access to specialty palliative care services. In addition, her work centers on the belief that individuals living with serious illness are the best navigators of their illness experience, and interventions must incorporate local knowledge, beliefs, and practices for long-term success. Specifically, her research is focused on developing and optimizing community-informed decision-support interventions for individuals living with advanced chronic kidney disease and their caregivers. Shena is currently funded on a K23 from the NIDDK and a pilot grant the Forge AHEAD center, a P50 center grant funded by NIMHD. She is a past recipient of the Palliative Care Research Cooperative Pilot Grant Program and multiple internal funding mechanisms.

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1. Cultural Values Influence on Rural Family Caregivers' Decision-Making for Ill Older Adult Loved Ones.. Journal of pain and symptom management. 68:86-95. 2024
2. Exploring the health-related decision-making experiences of people with chronic kidney disease and their caregivers: A qualitative study.. Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy. 27:-. 2023
3. Describing Self-Advocacy in Underrepresented Women With Advanced Cancer.. Oncology nursing forum. 50:725-734. 2023
4. Decision support training for advanced cancer family caregivers: Study protocol for the CASCADE factorial trial.. Contemporary clinical trials. -. 2023
5. Community Informed Recruitment: A Promising Method to Enhance Clinical Trial Participation.. Journal of pain and symptom management. 65:e757-e764. 2023
6. Preserving independence among under-resourced older adults in the Southeastern United States: existing barriers and potential strategies for research.. International journal for equity in health. 21:-. 2022
7. The Project ENABLE Cornerstone randomized controlled trial: study protocol for a lay navigator-led, early palliative care coaching intervention for African American and rural-dwelling advanced cancer family caregivers.. Trials. 23:-. 2022
8. Response to Jones et al., Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Delivering Antiracist Care to Black Americans (DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2021.0502).. Journal of palliative medicine. 25:535-536. 2022
9. Engaging African American family Caregivers in Developing a Culturally-responsive Interview Guide: A Multiphase Process and Approach.. Journal of pain and symptom management. 63:e705-e711. 2022
10. Disparities and Racism Experienced Among Older African Americans Nearing End of Life.. Current geriatrics reports. 10:1-10. 2021
11. Protecting our Elders and Developing Equitable Policies During Public Health Emergencies: Ethical Recommendations.. Current geriatrics reports. 10:1-140. 2021
12. Health Professionals Palliative Care Education for Older Adults: Overcoming Ageism, Racism, and Gender Bias.. Current geriatrics reports. 10:1-156. 2021
13. An Early Palliative Care Telehealth Coaching Intervention to Enhance Advanced Cancer Family Caregivers' Decision Support Skills: The CASCADE Pilot Factorial Trial.. Journal of pain and symptom management. 63:11-22. 2021
14. Engaging Social Justice Methods to Create Palliative Care Programs That Reflect the Cultural Values of African American Patients with Serious Illness and Their Families: A Path Towards Health Equity.. The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 49:222-230. 2021
15. Community Tele-pal: A community-developed, culturally based palliative care tele-consult randomized controlled trial for African American and White Rural southern elders with a life-limiting illness.. Trials. 21:-. 2020
16. Integrating Palliative Care into the Chronic Illness Continuum: a Conceptual Model for Minority Populations.. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities. 6:1078-1086. 2019
17. Impact of mentoring relationships on nursing professional socialization.. Journal of nursing management. 27:1182-1189. 2019
18. Effect of mentoring on professional values in model C clinical nurse leader graduates.. Journal of nursing management. 26:1044-1050. 2018
19. Implementing the New ANA Standard 8: Culturally Congruent Practice.. Online journal of issues in nursing. 22:-. 2016
20. Mentoring to retain newly hired nurses.. Nursing management. 47:9-13. 2016