School of Nursing
McDowell Hall
25 North College
Newark, DE 19716
Ph: (302) 831-1253
Fax: (302) 831-2382
ud-nursing@udel.edu

Accredited by the National League for Nursing Accreditating Commission, Inc. and the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education

School of Nursing Faculty

Margaret Hamilton Birney, PhD, RN
Associate Professor

Telephone: (302) 831-8500
E-mail: Birney@udel.edu

Mailing Address:
School of Nursing
McDowell Hall
Newark, DE 19716

Education
PhD, Wayne State University, Nursing, Physiology, and Immunology
MS, University of Delaware, Nursing, Cardiopulmonary Clinical Specialist
BSN, West Chester University, Nursing

Research Interests
Care of Cardiopulmonary patients

Recent Scholarship, Research Activities
2005. Birney, M. Cardiac Rehabilitation Outcomes: Gender Effects, Heart Rate Variability, and Stress. $94,906. Beginning Grant-in-Aid. American Heart Association. Pennsylvania-
Delaware Affiliate. Submitted 1/13/05 for 7/1/05 funding. Two year funding request.

2000. Birney, M. Religiousness/Spirituality and Cardiac Risk. Submitted R21 grant to NIH. 300,000. Unfunded.

Publications
Birney, M., Hardie, T. &Crowley, E. (Submitted). Association of parental smoking behaviors and absences in school age children.

Wheeler, E., Klemm, P., Hardie, T., Plowfield, L., Birney, M., & Polek, C., & Lynch, K. (2004) Racial disparities in hospitalized elderly patients with chronic heart failure. Transcultural Nursing, 15(4), 291-297.

Polek, C., Klemm, P., Hardie, T., Wheeler, E., Birney, M., &Lynch, K. (2004) Asian/Pacific Islander Women and Breast Cancer. Oncology Nursing Forum, 31(4), E69-74.

Presentations
2003. Wheeler, E., Klemm, P., Hardie, T., Polek, C. & Birney, M. “Methods Used by Smokers to QuitSmoking”. Poster Presentation. Sigma Theta Tau/Delaware Nurses’ Association Joint Research Conference, Dover, DE.

2000. Plowfield, L., Wheeler, E. Polek, C., Klemm, P., Hardie, T., & Birney, M. Examining the Role ofEthnicity on Hospital Stay and Length of Treatment. Poster Presentation. Sigma Theta Tau/Delaware Nurses’ Association Joint Research Conference, Dover, DE.

School of Nursing Faculty