Esther Park, RN, CMI, PhD.

Dr. Esther Park is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the College of Public Health. She is an experienced Nursing Educator, dedicated Researcher, and Certified Medical Interpreter.

Dr. Park has served several universities located nation-widely and internationally. Throughout those extended varied experience, she learned value of diversity, well-trained by different roles (Chairs of committees, Preparation team member for CCNE accreditation, IRB reviewer, Faculty admission officer, undergraduate divisional director, and campus learning lab coordinator), and equips of deeper level of comprehension about different learners. To that extent, she had launched international nursing practicum programs several times to broaden students’ learning opportunity and sharpen students’ level of critical thinking. The international nursing practicums have launched in Tanzania, several states in the USA, and S. Korea since 2014.

Before she joined in higher education system, she had built her clinical expertise in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for four years and adult Intensive Care Unit/Cardiac Surgery Unit for 7 years. While she was working in the CSU, she became more passionate in caring of patients with cardiac problems and their family caregivers who were considered as underserved population. This motive enlightened her initial research concepts, informal family caregiver and Caregiving Burden, and bridged to elder abuse and mistreatment research.

Not only to those research concepts, Dr. Park also expertise in research topic of Elder Abuse, Threshold of Caregiving Burden leading to Elder Mistreatment, Innovative Teaching Strategies, Outcomes of International Nursing Practicums, and Nursing Undergraduate Clinical Practicums (trend toward simulation).

Research

Research Interests

Dr. Park’s most passion is leaning toward students’ success as she has gotten seniority in teaching. This recently led her research delve into topics related to innovative teaching strategies including international nursing practicum and students’ outcomes on it. Dr. Park has conducted a pilot study on this topic, and wants to repeat similar research with bigger sample size without sampling bias.

Select Publications

• Fernando, K., Park, Y.H., Park, E. O., & Park, J. H. (2024). Global perspectives on Bipolar Disorder Treatment: An in-depth Comparative Analysis of International Guidelines for Medication Selection, BJPsych Open, in press (Accepted in Feb., 2024).

• Park, E. O. Lee, K. E., Park, D. and Sinacori, B. (2023). Predictors for elder mistreatment related to older adults and their primary caregivers. Acta Paulista de Enfermagem, 36 (dAPE035932), 1-9.    

• Park, A. S., Thomas, M. L., Park, E. O., & Choi, J. K. (2023). A Retrospective Study on Toenail Onychomycosis: Efficacy of Combination Therapy and Correlating Factors to Wash-out Time. Accepted by Journal of Nurse Practitioners, 19(8), 104712. 

• Park, E. O., Sim, J., & Park, D. (2021). Translated & back translated the measure: Risk on Elder Abuse and Mistreatment Instrument (Author, Liesbeth De Donder) (From English to Korean), The translated measure found on www.sasto.be    

• Park, E. O. (2019). Analysis of the effectiveness of international nursing practicums over national nursing practicums. Acta Paulista de Enfermagem, 32(2), 153-161.

• Park, E. O. (2019). Most Prevalent type of elder abuse and its correlation with elder depression. Acta Paulista de Enfermagem, 32(1), 95-100.

• Park, E. O., & Park, J. (2018). A quasi-experimental study on the effectiveness of flipped classroom for teaching adult health nursing. Japan Journal of Nursing Science, 15(2), 125-134.

• Yates, B. C., Park, E. O., Hug, A., Kupzyk, K. a., & Skradski, S. K. (2018). Changes over time in caregiving demand and difficulty in spousal caregivers of coronary artery bypass graft surgery patients. Applied Nursing Research, 39, 1-3.

• Translated the book “Critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment: A practical approach” into Korean (2018). Hyunmoon, Seoul, S. Korea: Park, E. O.

Honors and Awards

• Nomination Committee Board member (Nominated position), NJLN, April 2022

• Scholarship Committee Board member (Nominated position), New Jersey League for Nursing (NJLN), Sep. 2021

• Institutional Review Board (IRB) member at UB, 2019-2020.

• High Quality of the Article and Leading the Related Science, Excellence of the Research Article. The Article selected for continuing education and the article information follows: “Spousal caregivers of coronary artery bypass surgery patients: differences between caregivers with low vs. high caregiving demand.” Rehabilitation Nursing, 41(5).

• Faculty Admission Officer at DU, 2015 - 2019

• Outstanding Faculty Award in Teaching, New Jersey City University, Aug., 2013

Professional Affiliations

• Member of New Jersey League for Nursing (NJLN), April 2021~ current
• Member of Honorary Society, April 2011, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI)

Degrees

• PhD - University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), August 2012 
• Dissertation: “The Experience of Caregiving in Spouses of Patients with Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery and Cancer”
• Major: Adult Health and Illness (AHI) Nursing