My Work 

Prior to going into academia, I worked in a multiplicity of settings as a staff nurse, charge nurse, clinical nurse manager/supervisor, assistant director of nursing and clinical nurse specialist. I have AAS, BS, MS and PhD degrees, all in Nursing, and a minor degree in Psychology.  I have been an End of Life Nursing Education Consortium Trainer (ELNEC) since 2001, and recently received certification as a Fellow in Thanatology from the Association for Death Education and Counseling. When one looks at a snapshot of my work (below) it is evident that I experienced a paradigm shift in my thinking over time.

Publications              

Books & Chapters

Todaro-Franceschi, V.  (1999).  The enigma of energy:  Where science and religion converge.  New York:  The

          Crossroad Publishing Co.  (pp. 53-75).  Philadelphia, PA:  Lippincott.

 

Articles  

 

Todaro-Franceschi, V.  (2009). Using an online community board for teaching, learning  and student engagement on end-

            of-life care.  Nurse Educator, 34, 150-151.

 

Todaro-Franceschi, V.  (2008). Don’t worry about caring for the dying: It isn’t on the NCLEX.  Proceedings,

           International Centre for Nursing Ethics Conference, Nursing Ethics and Health Care Policy: Bridging Local,

           National and International Perspectives, Yale University, CT  (July).

           The short version of this paper can be accessed at :      

 

http://nursing.yale.edu/Centers/International/EthicsConference/docs/11_Todaro-Franceschi.doc.

 

Todaro-Franceschi, V. (2008).  Clarifying the enigma of energy, philosophically speaking. Nursing Science Quarterly

            21, 285-290.

 

Todaro-Franceschi, V. (2007).  Imagining nursing practice in the year 2050: Looking through a Rogerian looking glass.

           Nursing Science Quarterly, 20, 229-231. 

 

Todaro-Franceschi, V.  (2006). Synchronicity related to dead loved ones: A natural healing modality.  Spirituality and

            Health International, 7, 151-161.

 

Todaro-Franceschi, V.  (2006). Studying synchronicity related to dead loved ones AKA  after-death  communication:

           Martha, what do you think? Nursing Science Quarterly, 19, 297-299.

 

Todaro-Franceschi, V.  (2003).  Mistakes in research:  An appeal for tolerance. Nursing Science Quarterly, 16, 110-113. 

 

Todaro-Franceschi, V.  (2003).  Letter to the editor.  Nursing Science Quarterly, 16, 184-185.

 

Todaro-Franceschi, V. (2001).  Further reflections on energy fields.  Nursing Science Quarterly, 14, 182-186. 

 

Todaro-Franceschi, V.  (2001).  Pandimensional awareness, purposeful change and the kaleidoscopic cosmos.   Visions:

            The Journal of Rogerian Nursing Science, 9, 52-57.

 

Todaro-Franceschi, V.  (2001).  Energy:  A bridging concept for nursing science.  Nursing Science Quarterly, 14,  

           132-140.

 

Todaro-Franceschi, V.  (1999).  The idea of energy as phenomenon and Rogerian science:  Are they congruent? 

           Visions:  The Journal of Rogerian Nursing Science, 7, 30-41.

 

Todaro-Franceschi, V.  (1997).  The enigma of energy:  A philosophical inquiry.  (Doctoral dissertation, New York

            University.  (UMI No. 9819881)

 

Todaro-Franceschi, V. (1995).  Must Acausality Imply Unpredictability?  Visions: The Journal of Rogerian Nursing

           Science, 3, 46-50.

 

Todaro-Franceschi, V.  (1991).  Accuracy and feasibilty of measuring oral temperature in  critically ill adults.  Focus on

            Critical Care, 18, (3), 221-228.

 

 

Book Reviews- a few

 

Select Oral Presentations

 

2010.    

Let’s Talk About Death, Maybe. Society of Rogerian Scholars Conference, Florida Atlantic University, FL (Oct) Click here to view

Choices for Living-Dying: Enhancing Knowing Participation in Change. Society of Rogerian Scholars Conference, Florida Atlantic University, FL (Oct)

Changing Death Experiences in Health Care: An Intervention to Enhance Power and Facilitate Completion of Advance Directives, with Co-I, Adrial Lobelo, Society of Rogerian Scholars Conference, Florida Atlantic University, FL (Oct)    

A Dying Man and A Fentanyl Patch, Association for Death Education and Counseling 32nd Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO (Apr)

End of Life Pedagogy and Being in the World, Association for Death Education and Counseling 32nd Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO (Apr)

2009.   

Teaching, Learning and Student Engagement of Complex Topics:  The Creation of Online Community Boards, CUNY Information Technology Conference (Dec)

 

End of Life Education, Death Attitudes and Power as Knowing Participation in Change, Society of Rogerian Scholars Conference, Visions of Roger's Science of Unitary Human Beings: A Celebration of the Relative Present, Florida Atlantic University, FL (Oct)                                                                         

 

Healthy Aging, Unhealthy Dying: Talk About Convolution of Contemporary Values!  Oxford Roundtable Session on Ethics, Oxford University, Oxford UK (Mar)

 

Eyes Wide Open: Can We Learn From History? American Association of University Professors, Washington, DC (June)

 

2008.   

Changing the Face of Death through Presence: Communicating with the Dying and Their Loved Ones.  3rd European Federation of Critical Care Nursing Congress and 27th Aniarti Conference, Influencing CriticalCare Nursing in Europe, Florence, Italy (Oct) Click here to view the pdf

 

Preventing Compassion Fatigue and Reaffirming Purpose in Nursing. 3rd European  Federation of Critical Care Nursing Congress and 27th Aniarti Conference,

Influencing Critical Care Nursing in Europe, Florence, Italy (Oct)  Click here to view the pdf

 

Fostering Teaching-Learning on End-of-Life Nursing: An Online Community Board.  1st International Global Alliance on Nursing Education and Scholarship (GANES) Educating the Future Nursing and Health Workforce: A Global Challenge, Toronto,  Ontario (Oct)

 

 Creating Change, Creating Leaders. 1st International Global Alliance on Nursing Education and Scholarship (GANES) Educating the Future Nursing and Health Workforce: A Global Challenge, Toronto, Ontario (Oct)

 

Don’t Worry About Caring for the Dying: It Isn’t On the NCLEX. International Centre for Nursing Ethics Conference, Nursing Ethics and Health Care Policy: Bridging Local, National and International Perspectives Yale University, CT (July)

 

2007.   

Creating Change, Creating Leaders: Unguided Teaching-Learning. American Association of Colleges in Nursing Baccalaureate Conference, New Orleans (Nov).

 

Changing the Face of Death with Presence: Communicating with the Dying and Their Loved Ones.  New York Cornell Medical Center, Nursing Grand Rounds, NY. (Feb)  Invited

 

2006.   

Co-Meditation: A Practice for Reducing Anxiety in a Nursing School Setting.  Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing Research Roundtable. Invited

 

2002.   

Synchronicity Related to Dead Loved Ones:  A Natural Healing Modality.  Hunter School of Nursing Annual Spring Forum New York (April). Invited

 

Exploring Synchronicity Related to Dead Loved Ones: A Natural Healing Modality.  State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research, AN Council Washington D.C. (Sept.)

 

2001.

Caregiver’s Issues:  When Nobody Listens.  Stein  Senior Center, Choices in the Later Years, New York.

 

Energy:  A Bridging Concept for Nursing Science. International Association for Human Caring Conference, Stirling, Scotland (June).

 

Exploring Synchronicity Related To The Death of A Loved One As A Natural Healing Modality. International Association for Human Caring Conference, Stirling, Scotland (June).

 

Synchronicity Related to Dead Loved Ones: A Natural Healing Modality. Association for Death Education and Counseling 23rd Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada (March).

 

Energy: A Critical Issue For The Unitary Perspective. Midwest Nursing Research Society, Unitary Being Perspectives Research Symposium, Clevland, Ohio (Mar).                    

 

2000.

Exploring Synchronicity Related To The Death of A Loved One As A Natural Healing Modality. Regional Nursing Research Conference, STTI, Gamma Lambda Chapter and University of Southern Mississippi, Biloxi, MI  (Nov).

 

Synchronicity As A Meaningful, Purposeful Manifestation of  Pattern.  Eighth  Rogerian Conference, New York University, NY (June)

 

Energy:  A Bridging Concept for Nursing Science.  Eastern Nursing Research Society, 12th Annual Scientific Sessions. Newport, RI (April).

 

The Nature of Health & Healing.  Nursing Spring Forum: Spirituality, Health & Healing, Hunter College, (April). 

 

Unnaming Energy. The International Institute for Human Understanding, Fifth Annual International Conference, Miami, FL. (March).

 

1999.

The Enigma of Energy: A Philosophical Inquiry. University of Alberta Int’l Nursing Research Conference, Philosophic Inquiry Workshop. Edmonton, Canada, (June).   

  

1998.

Do We Always Participate Knowingly? New York University, Seventh Rogerian Conference Nursing and the Changing Person-Environment, NY, (June).

 

The Enigma of Energy. Sigma Theta Tau Gamma Lambda Chapter/University Southern Mississippi Nursing Research Conference, Biloxi, (Nov).

 

1996.

Cardiac Assessment  and Respiratory Assessment two seminars in a series for The Arthur Ashe Institute at State University of NY, Health Science Center at Brooklyn.

  

1993-1994.

Several seminars on  Decision-Making at the End-of-Life: The PSDA

                   

Research (Topics Only)

 

Philosophical:  Energy, Synchronicity, Life and Death

 

Use of Integrative Modalities: Synchronicity, Co-meditation, Focused Group Work

 

Pedagogical: Death, Dying and Bereavement, Perceptions of Preparedness to Care (for others and self

 

Caring for Self and Others: Professional Quality of Life

 

Living-Dying Choices and Enhancing Knowing Participation in Change

 

 

 

 

 

 

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