Christine Hoch

CHRISTINE HOCH, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC


Assistant Professor
 302-831-8601

Office Location:
333 Tower at STAR

Dr. Hoch is a board-certified, adult-health clinical nurse specialist and a tenure-track assistant professor in the School of Nursing. Her research interests are in symptom science in patients with heart failure (HF). Her program of research focuses on physiologic mechanisms of HF-related fatigue with a specific interest in cellular bioenergetics.

Dr. Hoch teaches pathophysiology at the undergraduate and graduate level, a critical care elective, and medical-surgical nursing courses for the SON.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Maryland, Baltimore, 2021
  • M.S.N., University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2008
  • B.S.N., University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 1996

Graduate:

  • Instructor NURS 621 Advanced Pathophysiology

Undergraduate:

  • Instructor NURS 411 Select Concepts in Critical Care
  • Instructor NURS 243 Pathophysiology
  • Instructor NURS 365 Nursing Care of Adults I
  • Heart failure related fatigue
  • Symptom science
  • Hoch, C., Klinedinst, N.J., Larimer, K., Renn, C., Fiskum, G. & Gottlieb, S.S. (2022). Fatigue in heart failure: A scoping review using the theory of unpleasant symptoms. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. doi: 10.1097/JCN.0000000000000940
  • Klinedinst, N. J., Schuh, R., Kittner, S. J., Regenold, W.T., Kehs, G., Hoch, C., Hackney, A. & Fiskum, G. (2019). Post-stroke fatigue as an indicator of underlying bioenergetics alterations. Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembraneshttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10863-018-9782-8
  • Madiraca, J., & Hoch, C.R. (2018). Calcium and Phosphorus. Nursing 2018 Critical Care13(2), 24–31
  • Hoch, C. (2017). Nursing management: Postoperative care. In S.L. Lewis, L.B. Bucher, M.M. Heitkemper, & M.M. Harding (Eds.) Medical-surgical nursing: Assessment and management of clinical problems (pp. 330 – 348). St. Louis, MO: Mosby Elsevier.
  • Hoch, C. (2014). Nursing management: Postoperative care. In S.L. Lewis, S.R. Dirksen, M.M. Heitkemper, L.B. Bucher & I. M. Camera (Eds.) Medical-surgical nursing: Assessment and management of clinical problems (pp. 367 – 382). St. Louis, MO: Mosby Elsevier.
  • Induction into Phi Kappa Phi, 2021
  • Excellence in Teaching- Nomination, University of Delaware, July 2021
  • Excellence in Teaching- Nomination, University of Delaware, July 2020
  • Delaware Top Nurses: Nursing Excellence, Delaware Nurses Association, May 2018
  • Excellence in Teaching- Nomination, University of Delaware, July 2016
  • Excellence in Teaching- Nomination, University of Delaware, July 2014