Susan Kools, RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor Emeritus
Family Health Care Nursing
School of Nursing

I have primarily studied adolescents in foster care and its influence on health and well being. I have explored adolescent illness experiences, including pediatric hyperlipidemia, congenital heart disease, hospitalization in Hong Kong and China, and HIV prevention in Malawi, Africa.

• “It was only me against the world.” Female African American Adolescents’ Perspectives on Their Sexual and Reproductive Health Learning and Experiences While in Foster Care: Implications for Positive Youth Development.
  Children and Youth Services Review 2020 Christina Ross, Susan Kools, Kathryn Laughon
• Women's Land Rights and Maternal Healthcare in Southwestern Uganda: Exploring the Implications of Women's Decision-Making Regarding Sale and Use of Land on Access to Maternal Healthcare.
  African journal of reproductive health 2020 Nyakato VN, Rwabukwali C, Kools S
• Living in Fear and Prioritizing Safety: Exploring Women's Lives After Traumatic Brain Injury From Intimate Partner Violence.
  Qualitative health research 2018 Ivany AS, Bullock L, Schminkey D, Wells K, Sharps P, Kools S
• Perceptions of sexual abstinence among Muslim adolescent girls in southern Thailand.
  International journal of adolescent medicine and health 2018 Piriyasart J, Songwathana P, Kools S
• Close Friendships and Mental Health of Korean American Adolescents: The Moderating Effect of Personality.
  Psychology 2018 Minjeong Kim, Jyu-Lin Chen, Susan Kools, Sandra Weiss
• Ecological Factors that Impact Adjustment Processes and Development of Ugandan Adolescent Immigrant Females.
  Journal of Child and Family Studies 2018 Emily Green, Kit Chesla, Yewoubdar Beyene, Susan Kools
• Reconnecting to Spirituality: Christian-Identified Adolescents and Emerging Adult Young Men's Journey from Diagnosis of HIV to Coping.
  Journal of religion and health 2017 Smith ST, Blanchard J, Kools S, Butler D
• Interprofessional education in the clinical setting: A qualitative look at the preceptor's perspective in training advanced practice nursing students.
  Nurse education in practice 2016 Chen AK, Rivera J, Rotter N, Green E, Kools S
• "I Am Normal": Claiming Normalcy in Christian-Identified HIV-Infected Adolescent and Emerging Adult Males.
  The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC 2016 Smith ST, Dawson-Rose C, Blanchard J, Kools S, Butler D
• Mental Health Problems among Korean American Adolescents.
  Psychology 2016 Minjeong Kim, Jyu-Lin Chen, Susan Kools, Sandra Weiss
• The Impact of Personality Traits and Acculturation on the Mental Health of Korean American Adolescents.
  Psychology 2016 Minjeong Kim, Jyu-Lin Chen, Susan Kools, Sandra Weiss
• Parent education discharge instruction program for care of children at home after cardiac surgery in Southern India.
  Cardiology in the young 2015 Staveski SL, Parveen VP, Madathil SB, Kools S, Franck LS
• "It's Back! My Remission Is Over": Online Communication of Disease Progression Among Adolescents With Cancer.
  Journal of pediatric oncology nursing : official journal of the Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses 2015 Keim-Malpass J, Stegenga K, Loudin B, Kennedy C, Kools S
• Nurse and parent perceptions associated with the Parent Education Discharge Instruction Programme in southern India.
  Cardiology in the young 2015 Staveski SL, Parveen VP, Madathil SB, Kools S, Franck LS
• Calculus formation: nurses' decision-making in abortion-related care.
  Research in nursing & health 2015 McLemore MR, Kools S, Levi AJ
• 4. East African Immigrant Females and Transitions in Identity Development: Understanding Developmental Protective and Risk Factors in Adolescence.
  Journal of Adolescent Health 2015 Emily K. Green, Susan Kools, Catherine Chesla
• Hospital nurses working wounded: motivations and obstacles to return to work as experienced by nurses with injuries.
  Work (Reading, Mass.) 2015 Mullen K, Gillen M, Kools S, Blanc P
• Pediatric cardiac surgery Parent Education Discharge Instruction (PEDI) program: a pilot study.
  World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery 2015 Staveski SL, Zhelva B, Paul R, Conway R, Carlson A, Soma G, Kools S, Franck LS
• Differences in caregiver-reported health problems and health care use in maltreated adolescents and a comparison group from the same urban environment.
  Research in nursing & health 2014 Schneiderman JU, Kools S, Negriff S, Smith S, Trickett PK
• Cultural humility and working with marginalized populations in developing countries.
  Global health promotion 2014 Kools S, Chimwaza A, Macha S
• Barriers and facilitators to the involvement of nurses in abortion care provision.
  Contraception 2013 M. McLemore, S. Kools
• Correlates of emotional distress in out-of-home youth.
  Journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing : official publication of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses, Inc 2013 Harpin S, Kenyon DB, Kools S, Bearinger LH, Ireland M
• Separation and reunification: the experiences of adolescents living in transnational families.
  Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care 2013 Schapiro NA, Kools SM, Weiss SJ, Brindis CD
• Adolescent fathers in the justice system: hoping for a boy and making him a man.
  Qualitative health research 2012 Shade K, Kools S, Pinderhughes H, Weiss SJ
• Dancing around death: hospitalist-patient communication about serious illness.
  Qualitative health research 2012 Anderson WG, Kools S, Lyndon A
• Health profiles of adolescents in foster care.
  Journal of pediatric nursing 2012 Kools S, Paul SM, Jones R, Monasterio E, Norbeck J
• Asian American adolescents' willingness to donate organs and engage in family discussion about organ donation and transplantation.
  Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) 2012 Trompeta JA, Cooper BA, Ascher NL, Kools SM, Kennedy CM, Chen JL
• 1. The Nature and Impact of Trauma on 1.5 Generation Immigrant Youth During Parental Separation and Reunification.
  Journal of Adolescent Health 2012 Naomi A. Schapiro, Susan Kools, Sandra J. Weiss, Claire Brindis
• Asian-American adolescents' willingness to donate organs and engage in family discussion about organ donation and transplantation
  Progress in Transplantation 2012 Trompeta, J. A., Cooper, B. A., Ascher, N. L., & Kools, S. M., Chen, J. L., Kennedy, C.
• Choosing fatherhood: how teens in the justice system embrace or reject a father identity.
  Journal of community health nursing 2012 Shade K, Kools S, Pinderhughes H, Weiss SJ
• Misconceptions about missed conceptions: the meanings of emergency contraceptive pills use among young adult couples.
  Journal of family nursing 2011 Beaulieu R, Kools S, Kennedy HP, Humphreys J
• A conceptual model of incarcerated adolescent fatherhood: adolescent identity development and the concept of intersectionality.
  Journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing : official publication of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses, Inc 2011 Shade K, Kools S, Weiss SJ, Pinderhughes H
• Young adult couples' decision making regarding emergency contraceptive pills.
  Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing 2011 Beaulieu R, Kools SM, Kennedy HP, Humphreys J
• 'The wind of openness': Religious organizations, Malawi youth and HIV
  International Journal of Child and Adolescent Health 2011 Rankin, S., Kools, S., Nyagondwe Fiedler, R., Schell, E., Phiri, J., & Mguntha, A.
• Cultural competencies for graduate nursing education
  Journal of Professional Nursing 2011 Clark, L., Calvillo, E., dela Cruz, F. A., Fongwa, M., Kools, S., Lowe, J., & Mastel-Smith, B
• Health risk behavior of youth in foster care.
  Journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing : official publication of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses, Inc 2009 Gramkowski B, Kools S, Paul S, Boyer CB, Monasterio E, Robbins N
• Dimensions of health in young people in foster care.
  International journal of adolescent medicine and health 2009 Kools S, Paul SM, Norbeck JS, Robbins NR
• Phone Cards and Webcams: Latino Immigrant Youth and Transnational Parenting in the 21st Century.
  Journal of Adolescent Health 2009 Naomi A. Schapiro, Howard L. Pinderhughes, Susan M. Kools
• The condom divide: disenfranchisement of Malawi women by church and state.
  Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN 2008 Rankin SH, Lindgren T, Kools SM, Schell E
• Pediatric hyperlipidemia: child and adolescent disease understandings and perceptions about dietary adherence.
  Journal for specialists in pediatric nursing : JSPN 2008 Kools S, Kennedy C, Engler M, Engler M
• From heritage to postmodern grounded theorizing: 40 years of grounded theory
  Studies in Symbolic Interaction 2008 Kools, S.
• Adolescents' pain experiences following acute blunt traumatic injury: struggle for internal control.
  Journal for specialists in pediatric nursing : JSPN 2007 Crandall M, Kools S, Miaskowski C, Savedra M
• Consequences of frequenting the lesbian bar.
  Women & health 2006 Gruskin E, Byrne K, Kools S, Altschuler A
• Parents' refusal of medical treatment for cultural or religious beliefs: an ethnographic study of health care professionals' experiences.
  Journal of pediatric oncology nursing : official journal of the Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses 2005 Linnard-Palmer L, Kools S
• Risk factors for childhood obesity in elementary school-age Taiwanese children.
  Progress in cardiovascular nursing 2005 Chen JL, Kennedy C, Yeh CH, Kools S
• Health care transitions for adolescents with congenital heart disease: patient and family perspectives.
  The Nursing clinics of North America 2004 Tong EM, Kools S
• Parents' refusal of medical treatment based on religious and/or cultural beliefs: the law, ethical principles, and clinical implications.
  Journal of pediatric nursing 2004 Linnard-Palmer L, Kools S
• The symptom experience of hospitalised Chinese children and adolescents and relationship to pre-hospital factors and behaviour problems.
  International journal of nursing studies 2004 Franck LS, Kools S, Kennedy C, Kong SK, Chen JL, Wong TK
• Psychosocial functioning of hospitalized Chinese adolescents and their families.
  Journal of pediatric nursing 2004 Kools S, Kennedy C, Kong SK, Chen JL, Franck L, Wong TK
• Construction managers' perceptions of construction safety practices in small and large firms: a qualitative investigation.
  Work (Reading, Mass.) 2004 Gillen M, Kools S, McCall C, Sum J, Moulden K
• Construction workers' perceptions of management safety practices: a qualitative investigation.
  Work (Reading, Mass.) 2004 Gillen M, Kools S, Sum J, McCall C, Moulden K
• Parents' perceptions of their infant's pain experience in the NICU.
  International journal of nursing studies 2004 Gale G, Franck LS, Kools S, Lynch M
• Culturally appropriate family assessment: analysis of the Family Assessment Device in a pediatric Chinese population.
  Journal of nursing measurement 2003 Chen JL, Kennedy C, Kools S, Slaughter RE, Franck L, Kong SK, Wong TK
• A model of recovery from substance abuse and dependence for Korean adolescents.
  Journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing : official publication of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses, Inc 2003 Hyun MS, Kools S, Kim SA
• Foster child health and development: implications for primary care.
  Pediatric nursing 2003 Kools S, Kennedy C
• Issue brief: Mental health and developmental needs of transitioning adolescents in foster care. California Partnership for Children
  Issue brief: Mental health and developmental needs of transitioning adolescents in foster care. California Partnership for Children 2003 Kools, S.
• Caregiver understanding of adolescent development in residential treatment.
  Journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing : official publication of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses, Inc 2002 Kools S, Spiers J
• The pain experience of adolescents after acute blunt traumatic injury.
  Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses 2002 Crandall M, Miaskowski C, Kools S, Savedra M
• Hospital experiences of young adults with congenital heart disease: divergence in expectations and dissonance in care.
  American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses 2002 Kools S, Tong EM, Hughes R, Jayne R, Scheibly K, Laughlin J, Gilliss CL
• Children's perceptions of TV and health behavior effects.
  Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing 2002 Kennedy CM, Strzempko F, Danford C, Kools S
• Family Transitions in Congenital Heart Disease Management: The Impact of Hospitalization in Early Adulthood.
  Journal of Family Nursing 1999 Susan Kools, Catherine L. Gilliss, Elizabeth M. Tong
• Developmental issues in adolescent health
  Asian Journal of Nursing Studies 1999 Kools, S.
• Family transitions in congenital heart disease management: The impact of hospitalization in early adulthood
  Journal of Family Nursing 1999 Kools, S., Gilliss, C. L., & Tong, E. M.
• Adolescent identity development in foster care
  Family Relations 1997 Kools, S.
• Dimensional Analysis: Broadening the Conception of Grounded Theory.
  Qualitative Health Research 1996 Susan Kools, Marianne McCarthy, Roberta Durham, Linda Robrecht
• Dimensional analysis: Broadening the conception of grounded theory
  Qualitative Health Research 1996 Kools, S., McCarthy, M., Durham, R., & Robrecht, L.