Faculty Profiles: Ghareeb, Sameh

Position Title: Assistant Professor / Chair, School of Nursing

Office Location: L. Gale Lemerand School of Nursing, office # 121

Office Phone:  386-481-2110

Email:  ghareebs@cookman.edu

Degrees:

• PhD in Nursing University of Massachusetts (UMASS) – 2015
  • Minor: Physiology.
• MSN/PhD Dual program Nursing - Wayne State University (WSU).
  - Transferred to the University of Massachusetts:
  - Concentrations: Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Pediatrics Cardiology, & Preterm Infants.
• BSN: Jordan University of Science & Technology, Irbid, Jordan, 2001

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• Ghareeb, S. (2016). Diabetic Patients and Fasting in Ramadan. Arab America
• Claudia Valdez-Lowe, C., Ghareeb, S., Artinian, N. (2009). Pulse Oximetry in Adults. American journal of Nursing, 109, 6.
• Sameh Ghareeb. The Theory of Conservation of Wholeness While Feeding High Risk Infants: A Substruction of Levine’s Conservation Model”. (Pending: Submitted recently to Nursing Science Quarterly Journal).
• Sameh Ghareeb. “The Role of School Nurses in Decreasing the Turnover of Special Education Teachers”. (in process)
• Sameh Ghareeb. The Theory of ‘Feeding High Risk Infants’ as An Environmental Stressor: A Substructoin of Neuman’s System Model. (in process)
• Sameh Ghareeb & Linda Lewandowski. Literature review: The Effects of Breast Feeding, Bottle-Feeding, and Cup Feeding on Oxygen Saturation and Heart Rate in Infants with Congenital Heart Disease”. (in process)

• Obtained a wide range of leadership and teaching experiences in six different universities: University of Jordan, Wayne State University, University of Massachusetts, Stratford University, Higher Colleges of Technology, and Bethune Cookman University. He attended/presented at more than 40 conferences/ workshops/webinars.

• Gained extensive clinical experience in a number of clinical areas (Operating room, Pre-op., PACU, home care, private duty nursing, psychiatric clinics, medical-surgical units, Telemetry, infection control department, pediatrics, and administration), and in numerous top hospitals in the USA, including Johns Hopkins Hospital, Yale University Hospital, and the University of Michigan Hospital.

• Research interests center on understanding internal and external environmental stressors (whether they were physiological, psychological, sociocultural, developmental, or spiritual) and their positive or negative effects on human beings, especially children’s wholeness.

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• The American Holistic Nurses Association Annual Conference Administering medications: Is it a “Doctor Order” or Part of the Nursing Plan of Care?
  • Orlando, FL, June 11th, 2023
• PLAY Conference (Personal Learning Around You)
  “Caring for Children with Special Healthcare Needs in the School Setting: Role of Nurses”.
  • Daytona Beach, FL, March 25th, 2017
• VNA Fall Conference
  “Cup Feeding in NICU: The Influence of Education”.
  • Richmond, VA, November 20-21, 2015
• ENRS 27th Annual Scientific Sessions
  Nursing Science, Evidence, and Policy: Creating a Culture of Health (Oral presentation)
  “Cup Feeding in NICU: The Influence of Knowledge”
  • Washington, DC April 15 - 17, 2015
• 5th Annual UMass Clinical and Translational Science Research Retreat (Poster presentation)
  “Cup Feeding in NICU: The Influence of Knowledge and Belief”.
  • Worcester, MA, May 20, 2014.
• Sigma Theta Tau International Scholarship Day Poster Presentation
  • Holyoke , MA, April 9, 2014.
• “Cup Feeding in NICU: The Influence of Education, and Experience”.
• Midwest Nursing Research Society (MNRS) conference (Poster
  presentation)
  “Effects of Cup- Feeding Vs. Nasogastric tube feeding on Oxygen Saturation & Heart Rate in Infants with Congenital Heart Defects”
  • Indianapolis, IN, March 27-31, 2008
• Midwest Nursing Research Society (MNRS) conference (Oral presentation)
  “The Effects of Breast Feeding, Bottle-Feeding, and Cup Feeding on Oxygen Saturation and Heart Rate in Infants with Congenital Heart Disease”
  • Omaha, NE, March 23-26, 2007
• College of Nursing Research day (Poster presentation)
  “The Effects of Breast Feeding, Bottle-Feeding, and Cup Feeding on Oxygen Saturation and Heart Rate in Infants with Congenital Heart Disease”
  • Detroit, MI, March 21, 2007
• Hookah health information conference (Oral presentation)
  • Farmington Hills, MI, December 5, 2006
• Promoting Excellence through Evidence-Based Practice (Poster presentation)
  “The Effects of Breast Feeding, Bottle-Feeding, and Cup Feeding on Oxygen Saturation and Heart Rate in Infants with Congenital Heart Disease”
  • Detroit, MI, November 16 & 17, 2006

​​​​​​​2007-2008 Graduate Teaching Assistantship.

2006-2007 Graduate Rumbel Fellowship.