Dr. Ann Marie Mauro is an experienced educator and has held various leadership positions in academic, professional, and community organizations. She has clinical expertise in cardiovascular nursing and has worked with individuals living with an implantable defibrillator (ICD). Dr. Mauro has studied the relationship between uncertainty and psychosocial adjustment among ICD recipients using Mishel's uncertainty in illness model as a theoretical framework. Her current qualitative research is an exploration of the educational and support needs of female ICD recipients. Dr. Mauro has presented regionally, nationally and internationally on the psychosocial adjustment of ICD recipients and the use of human patient simulation as a teaching strategy. She serves as a manuscript reviewer for Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care, the International Journal of Nursing Studies, and the Journal of Nursing Scholarship. Dr. Mauro has taught courses in Adult and Elder Nursing, Pharmacology, Leadership and Management, Health Assessment, Nursing Research, Community Nursing, and Culture and Health.

Research Interests:

Psychosocial aspects of cardiovascular disease
Uncertainty in illness
Needs of women with cardiovascular disease
Educational strategies
Human patient simulation/technology

Mauro, A.M.P. (2010). Long-term follow-up study of uncertainty and psychosocial adjustment among implantable cardioverter defibrillator recipients. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 47(9), 1080-1088.

Mauro A.M.P. (2009). Jumping on the simulation bandwagon: Getting started. Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 4(2), 30-33.

Mauro, A.M.P. (2008a). Uncertainty as a predictor of adjustment to an implantable cardioverter defibrillator.  Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing, Fall, 151-159.

Mauro, A.M.P. (2008b). Exploring uncertainty and adjustment after cardioverter defibrillator implantation. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 23(6), 527-535.

Tullo, N.G., Sakena, S., Krol, R.B., Mauro, A.M., & Kunecz, D. (1990). Management of complications associated with a first generation endocardial defibrillator lead system for implantable cardioverter defibrillators. American Journal of Cardiology, 66, 411-415.

Saksena, S., Tullo, N., Krol, R., & Mauro, A.M. (1989). Initial experience with endocardial defibrillation using an implantable cardioverter/defibrillator with a triple electrode system.  Archives of Internal Medicine, 149, 2333-2339. 

Mauro, A.M.P. (1988). Effects of bell versus diaphragm on indirect blood pressure measurement.  Heart & Lung: The Journal of Critical Care, 17, 489-494.