Associate Professor
University of Washington Bothell
18115 Campus Way NE
Box 358532
Bothell, WA 98011
PH: 425.352.5367
FAX: 425.352.3237
Office: UW1-231
Teaching Philosophy:
To encourage students to critically explore and refine how various theoretical frameworks reflect and articulate the realities of their own professional and personal experiences.
Recent Courses Taught:
BCUSP 110 Orgins
BCUSP 117B Arts and Healthcare
BNURS 408 Community Health Nursing Theory
BNURS 409 Community Health Nursing
BNURS 507 Advanced Roles in Nursing Practice
BNURS 508 Ethics and Aesthetics
BHLTH 497 Alcoholism in U.S. Films
BEDUC 423 Health, Fitness, and Issues of Abuse
Academic Interests:
Community-level interventions for alcohol abuse/alcoholism related to 1) metropolitan communities; 2) mothers with alcohol or drug abuse concerns; 3) Eastern Europe
Professional Members:
Snohomish County Mental Health Advisory Board
International Nurses Society on Addictions
Research Society on Alcoholism
International Nursing Honor Society (Sigma Theta Tau)
SEARCHN (Puget Sound Community Health Nursing group)
Society for the Arts in Healthcare
Professional Activities:
Visiting Summer Session Professor in Psychology Dept, of Lithuania Chrisitian College, Klaipeda, Lithuania, May, 2006
Workshop Leader, A.P.P.L.E. (American Professional Parenting with Lithuanian Education), Preventing and Addressing Problematic Alcohol use in school children, Lithuania, July 2004
Honors, Awards and Grants:
UWB Distinguished Teacher Award, 2001
Huckabay Teaching Fellowship Mentor, UW, 2001-2002
International Nurses Society on Addictions research grant, 2001
Worthington Scholarship Award, 2000 - 01, 2005; 2005 - 06
UWB Undergraduate Student Research Grant, 2005 - 06
Education:
PhD, Nursing Science, University of Washington, Seattle, 1997
MA, Theology, Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, California 1990
MSN, Perinatal Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, 1977
BSN, University of San Francisco, 1973
Clinical Background:
Certification in Addictions Nursing, since 1994
Public Health Department of Seattle-King County
Providence Medical Center, Everett - Program for children of mothers with addictions
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Pediatric Nurse Specialist
Neonatal intensive care, school nursing, developmental disabilities nursing
US Army Nurse Corps, 1973-1976
Selected Publications and Presentations:
Kovalesky, A. (2005). Correctional facilities as clinical placement sites for registered nurses in undergraduate programs. Journal of Correctional Health Care, 11(2), 125-135.
Teramoto, T., Hirose, T., Kovalesky, A., Kang, R., & Barnard, K. (2005). Parenting support systems for premature infants in the U.S.: An investigation in the states of Washington and Colorado. Perinatal Medicine , (Japan), 35(75), 997-1000. (article in Japanese.)
Kovalesky, A. (2005). Poster, A Graduate-Level Aesthetics Course for Nurses, Society for the Arts in Healthcare Annual Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, July
Kovalesky A. 2004. Women and substance abuse. Nursing Clinics of North America, 39(1), 205 - 217
Kovalesky A & Williams W. 2003. Feature films with alcohol concerns identified by upper-division college students. Journal of Addictions Nursing, 14(2), 91-6.
Kovalesky A. 2003. Assisting faith communities in addressing alcohol and drug abuse concerns of their members and local community. Health Ministries Association annual national conference, Valley Forge, PA, June.
Kovalesky A. 2001. Factors affecting mother-child visiting identified by women with histories of substance abuse and child custody loss. Child Welfare, LXXX(6), 749-768.
Kovalesky A & Flagler S. 1997. Child placement issues of women with addictions. JOGNN, 26(5), 585-592.
