Ramona T. Mercer
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Ramona Thieme Mercer (born October 4, 1929) is the author of a mid-range nursing theory known as maternal role attainment. Mercer has contributed many works to the refinement of this theory and is credited as a nurse-theorist. She was the Nahm Lecturer 1984 at the University of California.[http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/cenfame.pdf Wall of Fame] The University of California. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614101531/http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/cenfame.pdf |date=June 14, 2010 }}
Career
Mercer earned a diploma from St. Margaret’s School of Nursing in Montgomery, Alabama. She earned an undergraduate degree in nursing with distinction from the University of New Mexico in 1962, followed by a master's degree in maternal child nursing from Emory University in 1964. For ten years, she worked as a staff nurse, head nurse and instructor. She was a faculty member at Emory University for five years until she left to pursue doctoral studies in maternity nursing at the University of Pittsburgh.
Honors and awards
1988: Distinguished Research Lectureship Award, Western Society for Research in Nursing (inaugural award)
2003: Living Legend, American Academy of Nursing
2004: Distinguished Alumni Award, University of New Mexico College of Nursing
Works
- {{cite journal |last=Mercer |first=Ramona |year=1980 |title=Teenage motherhood: The first year |journal=Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=16–27 |doi=10.1111/j.1552-6909.1980.tb01301.x |pmid=6898708 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Mercer |first=Ramona |year=1981 |title=A theoretical framework for studying factors that impact on the maternal role |journal=Nursing Research |volume=30 |pages=73–77 |doi=10.1097/00006199-198103000-00003 |pmid=7010317 |issue=2 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Mercer |first=Ramona |year=1985 |title=The process of maternal role attainment over the first year |journal=Nursing Research |volume=34 |pages=198–204 |doi=10.1097/00006199-198507000-00002 |pmid=3847870 |issue=4 }}
- {{cite book |last=Mercer |first=Ramona |title=First-time motherhood: Experiences from teens to forties |year=1986 |publisher=Springer |location=New York }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Mercer |first1=Ramona |year=1986 |title=Theoretical models for studying the effect of antepartum stress on the family |journal=Nursing Research |volume= 35|pages= 339–346|doi=10.1097/00006199-198611000-00008 |pmid=3640350 |last2=May |first2=KA |last3=Ferketich |first3=S |last4=Dejoseph |first4=J |issue=6|s2cid=30891020 }}
- {{cite book |last=Mercer |first=Ramona |title=Becoming a mother: Research on maternal identity from Rubin to the present |year=1995 |publisher=Springer |location=New York }}
- {{cite journal |last=Mercer |first=Ramona |author2=Ferketich, S. |year=1990 |title=Predictors of parental attachment during early parenthood |journal=Journal of Advanced Nursing |volume=15 |pages=268–280 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2648.1990.tb01813.x |pmid=2332549 |issue=3 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Mercer |first=Ramona |author2=Ferketich, S. |year=1994 |title=Predictors of maternal role competence by risk status |journal=Nursing Research |volume=43 |pages=38–43 |doi=10.1097/00006199-199401000-00009 |pmid=8295838 |issue=1 |s2cid=45798028 }}
See also
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