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Contact

Eisik@twu.edu
713-794-2109
6700 Fannin Street. Houston, Texas 77030

Biography

Elif Isik, Ph.D., RN, is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing on the Houston campus. She is teaching NURS4111 Community Health Competencies Clinical, NURS4091 Concept of Pediatric Nursing Clinical  and teaching NURS3612 Introduction to Research in Nursing. Her specialty area is community/public health and pediatric health nursing and she supervises students in the community and pediatric clinical settings. She worked in the emergency room, labor/delivery unit, postpartum unit, and a public school system as a nurse. Her research areas include children and adolescents with special health care needs, self-management, physical and behavioral health of children and adolescents. She had numerous awards for her dissertation study including Chancellor's Student Research Scholar, Doctoral Research Grant, internal small grants, and Outstanding Doctoral Students recognition STTI, Beta Beta Chapter. Her dissertation publication earned the Southern Nursing Research Society D Jean Wood award and her poster was awarded first place among Top 10 Student Poster Award at Southern Research Nursing Society (SNRS) annual conference. She received an internal research funding STTI Lucile Petry research grant for her current project. Dr. Isik's project, titled "Asthma Self-Management Behaviors and Cognitive Autonomy: Developing an Adolescent Questionnaire," was awarded funding by the NIH/NHLBI under the R15 mechanism. She is a member in many professional organizations and she actively engages in their organizational activities and conferences.

Education

Ph.D., Nursing Science, 草莓传媒官网下载, Houston, Texas
M.S.N., Nursing, Chamberlain University, College of Nursing, Addison, IL
Other, Nursing Science, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
M.A., Curriculum and Instruction, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
B.S., Bachelor's degree, Canakkale 18 Mart University, Canakkale, Turkey
Dipl, Nursing, Adana School of Nursing, Adana, Turkey

Research Interests

School-aged children with Special Health Care Needs and their Parents; Physical and Behavioral Health of Children and Adolescents; Chronic Conditions; Asthma; Technology Based Interventions; Self-care and Self-management; Developing questionnaire, Community/Public Health; Adolescents' cognitive autonomy 

Latest Articles

Anxiety and Depression in Children with Siblings Who Have Special Health Care Needs: A Systematic Review.
Journal of Pediatric Nursing: Nursing Care of Children and Families (2024)
Elif Isik, Kimberly E. Gonzalez

Caring for a Child with special health care needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic through the parents lens
Journal of Pediatric Nursing: Nursing Care of Children and Families (2023)
Elif Isik, Nina Fredland, Rebecca Schultz

Assessing Available Adolescent Self-Reported Measures for Asthma Management: A Systematic Literature Review
Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology (2023)
Elif Isik, Nina M Fredland

Parents Voice Their Experiences of Caring for Children with Special Healthcare Needs amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Journal of Pediatric Nursing: Nursing Care of Children and Families (2023)
Elif Isik, Nina M. Fredland, Rebecca J. Schultz

Journal of School Nursing (2021)
Elif Isik, Nina M. Fredland

Journal of School Nursing (2020)
Elif Isik, Nina M. Fredland, Anne E. Young, Rebecca J. Schultz

Journal of Pediatric Nursing: Nursing Care of Children and Families (2019)
Elif Isik, Nina M. Fredland, Wyona M. Freysteinson

Public Health Nursing (2019)
Elif Isik, Ismet S. Isik

NASN School Nurse (2017)
Elif Isik, Ismet S. Isik

Externally Funded Projects

Asthma Self-Management Behaviors and Cognitive Autonomy: Developing an Adolescent Questionnaire Year 1 of 3
GOV-National Heart Lung & Blood Institute (NHLBI) | $0.00 | 2024
Role: Principal Investigator

Center for Global Nursing
Center for Global Nursing | $2,000.00 | 2022
Role: Principal Investigator

STTI-Lucile Petry Leone Research Grant
PRI-Sigma Theta Tau International - Honor Society of Nursing | $1,000.00 | 2020
Role: Principal Investigator

STTI Beta Beta Houston Research Grant
STTI Beta Beta Houston | $2,000.00 | 2019
Role: Principal Investigator

Internally Funded Projects

2025 Chancellor's Research Faculty Scholars Program
草莓传媒官网下载 | $0.00 | 2024
Research Grant

Travel Assistance Fund
草莓传媒官网下载 ORSP | $800.00 | 2023
Research Grant

Research Enhancement Program
草莓传媒官网下载 ORSP | $10,000.00 | 2023
Research Grant

Research Enhancement Program
草莓传媒官网下载 ORSP | $10,000.00 | 2023
Research Grant

Travel Assistance Fund
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Research Grant

草莓传媒官网下载 Chancellor Research Award
草莓传媒官网下载 | $0.00 | 2019
Research Grant

Doctoral Research Grant
草莓传媒官网下载 | $2,000.00 | 2019
Research Grant

Student Center Research
草莓传媒官网下载 | $500.00 | 2018
Research Grant

Student Center Research
草莓传媒官网下载 | $500.00 | 2018
Research Grant

Professional Affiliations

• American Academy of Nursing
• American Association of Colleges of Nursing
• American Thoracic Society
• Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science
• Epsilon Omega Epsilon
• National Association of School Nurses
• Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI)
• Southern Nursing Research Society
• Texas School Nurse Association