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educational history
- DNS Louisiana State University
- MN Louisiana State University
- BSN University of Mississippi
recent publications
- Willis, D.G. (2008). Male-on-male rape of an adult man: A case review and implications for interventions. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 14(6), 454-461.
- Willis, D. G., Grace, P., & Roy, C. (2008). A central unifying focus for the discipline: Facilitating humanization, meaning, choice, quality of life, and healing in living and dying. Advances in Nursing Science, 31(1), E28-E40.
- Willis, D. G. (2008). Meanings in adult male victims’ experiences of hate crime and its aftermath. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 29(6), 567-584.
- Grace, P.J., Willis, D.G., & Jurchak, M. (2007). Good patient care: egalitarian interprofessional collaboration as moral imperative. American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Exchange, 10(1), 8-9.
- Willis, D.G. (2006). Men's health: Recognition of depressive symptoms in boys and men. Interaction, 24(1), 5.
- Willis, D. G., & Porche, D. J. (2006). Envisioning and advancing men’s health disparities scholarship: The Marginality-Cultural Competence Integrative Framework (M-CCIF). Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 27(4), 425-442.
- Porche, D. J., & Willis, D. G. (2006). Depression in HIV infected men. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 27(4), 391-401.
- Willis, D. G. (2004). Hate crimes against gay males: An overview. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 25(2), 115-132.
- Willis, D. G., & Porche, D. J. (2004). Male battering of intimate partners: Theoretical underpinnings, intervention approaches, and implications. Nursing Clinics of North America, 39(2), 271-282.
- Lopez, K. A., & Willis, D. G. (2004). Descriptive versus interpretive phenomenology: Their contributions to nursing knowledge. Qualitative Health Research: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal, 14(5), 726-735.
- Porche, D. J., & Willis, D. G. (2004). Nursing and men’s health movement: Considerations for the 21st century. Nursing Clinics of North America, 39(2), 251-258
- Willis, D. G., Manfrin-Ledet, L., & Porche, D. J. (2006). Violence research in nursing. In. J. J. Fitzpatrick & M. Wallace (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Publishing.
- Douglas, D. H., & Willis, D. G. (2006). Empathy research. In. J. J. Fitzpatrick & M. Wallace (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Publishing.
- Douglas, D. H., & Willis, D. G. (2005). Care of professional self. In K. Masters (Ed.), Role Development in Professional Nursing. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
international presentations
- Nursing's moral imperative for knowledge development: Dialect or dialectic. Paper presentation at the 10th annual International Philosophers of Nursing Society Meeting, Dublin, Ireland. First author collaboration with Drs. Pamela Grace, Dorothy Jones, and Callista Roy, September 2006.
- A stunning silence: the absence of nursing discourse on the origins of men's violence. Paper presentation at the 9th International Philosophers of Nursing Society Meeting, Leeds, England. First author collaboration with Dr. Pamela Grace, September 2005.