Mary Curry Narayan, PhD, RN, HHCNS-BC, CTN-A

Expertise Areas:

• Application of transcultural nursing principles to home health care
• Intersection of patient-centered care and culture-sensitive care
• Development of excellence in home-based nursing practice through research and international partnerships
• Qualitative research methods, especially grounded theory

Languages spoken, read/write*:

English

Select Publications:

• Narayan, M. C., Mallinson, R. K. (2022). A grounded theory study of home health nurses’ journey towards culture-sensitive/patient-centered skills. Home Health Care Management and Practice. 34(1), 24-34.
• Narayan, M. C., Mallinson, R. K. (2022). Transcultural nurse views on culture-sensitive/patient-centered assessment and care-planning: A descriptive study. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 33(2), 150-160.
• Narayan, M. C. (2019). Addressing implicit bias in nursing. American Journal of Nursing, 119(7), 36-43.
• Narayan, M.C., & Scafide, K. N. (2017). Systematic review of racial/ethnic disparities in home healthcare. Journal of Transcultural Nursing (28), 6, 598-607.
• Narayan, M. C. (2010). Culture’s effects on pain assessment and management. American Journal of Nursing, 110(4), 38-47.

Present/Future Directions 

Currently, I am co-leading a project to develop the International Scope and Standards for Home-Based Nursing Practice, in partnership with the International Home Care Nursing Organization and the American Nurses Association. This project consists of two phases: 1) a research phase (series of surveys seeking input from nurses who provide care to patients in their homes from around the world) and 2) an expert opinion phase (in which nurse experts from around the world examine the findings of the research and draft the scope and standards). This draft will be reviewed by home-based nurses around the world before publication. The goal of this project is to describe how home-based nurses can work together to promote excellence in their practice, with particular attention to equitable, high quality, patient-centered/culture-sensitive care to patients in their homes in all the countries of the world.

 

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Updated 12/2024