RESEARCH INTERESTS
To examine how nurse-led educational interventions affect heart failure patients' symptom recognition and decisions regarding their self-care management; to examine barriers to self-care maintenance and management using telehealth technology; and to examine if integrating technology into the curriculum positively effects student’s clinical decision-making.

BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Stamp’s research focuses on nurse practitioners’ judgments of coronary heart disease risk. Her current project consists of evaluating how nurse practitioners make treatment or referral decisions based on CHD risk factors. Her future research trajectory will explore decision-making and judgments of various health care providers and patients as they relate to coronary heart disease diagnosis and treatment.

Dr. Stamp received her B.S.N. from Southeast Missouri State University, her M.S. in nursing education, post-masters in adult nurse practitioner and doctorate in nursing from the University of South Florida. She is certified as an adult nurse practitioner and is an active member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society in Nursing and the American Heart Association.

SELECTED APPOINTMENTS & AWARDS

• 2013: Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses: Excellence in Nursing Education Award
  
• 2012-2013: Chair-Elect Membership Committee, American Association of Heart Failure Nurses
• 2011-2012: Research Incentive Grant, Boston College 
• 2011- Massachusetts Association of Colleges and Nursing: Early Career Award
• 2010-Present: Teaching, Advising, Mentoring and Evaluation Grant, Boston College

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Stamp, K., Machado, M., Allen, N. (accepted). Transitional care programs improve outcomes for heart failure patients: An integrative review. To appear in Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.
• Pozzar, R., Allen, N., Stamp, K., Sampson, D. (accepted). Focusing on feedback: How nurse practitioners can use focus group interviews to build patient-centered practice. Journal of American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.
• Pozzar, R., Stamp, K. D., Allen, N. (accepted). Patient Advocacy in a Changing Health care Climate: Using Focus Groups to Inform Innovative Approaches to Care. To appear in American Journal of Nursing.
  
• Stamp, K. (2012). A Second Look: Diastolic heart failure in women and expanding knowledge about their self-care practices. Nursing for Women's Health, 16(6), 495-500.
  
• Stamp K., Allen, N. Zagarins, S. Leher, S. & Walsh, G. (2012). Telehealth Program for Medicaid Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Lowers Hemoglobin A1c. Journal of Managed Care Medicine, 15(4).

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