Faculty and Staff

Karen Egenes, EdD, RN

Title: Associate Professor and Chair, Health Promotion

Office #: Granada Center, Room 320, LSC

Phone: 773.508.2885

E-mail: kegenes@luc.edu

Research Interests

Historical Research - History of Nursing Chronic Mental Illness

Professional & Community Affiliations

American Association for the History of Nursing 
Society for Education and Research in Psychiatric Nursing 
American Psychiatric Nursing Association 
Association of Community Health Nurse Educators

Publications

Egenes, Karen J 'An experiment in leadership: The rise of student government at Philadelphia
      General Hospital Training School, 1920-1930' Nursing History Review 5 (1997).
Egenes, Karen J 'Addiction treatment: A historical nursing perspective' Addictions Nursing 7
      (1995):2-7.
Egenes, Karen J 'Social isolation, Substance abuse, and Grief and loss' in Community nursing
      care planning. Buffalo, NY: Delmar Publishers, 1996.
Egenes, Karen J 'Where do we go from here?: Educating students for new roles in community
      mental health nursing', Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of
      Community Health Nurse Educators. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. June, 1997.
Egenes, Karen J 'Seldom told tales about Alice Fisher' Paper presented at the Eighth Annual
      Meeting of the center for the Study of the History of Nursing. School of Nursing, University
      of Pennsylvania. May, 1997.