Catherine Heilferty
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
Catherine Heilferty has been an Associate Professor in the School of
Nursing since 2018. She is a pediatric oncology nurse and teaches healthcare
research and ethics. Her research interests include narratives of illness, the
history of nursing, college student grief. She has published works on cultural
competence in the nursing care of children; spiritual care for dying children;
and the narratives of illness blog creation by parents of children with cancer.
Her inspiration for exploring the concept of crafting healthcare is the
community of rug artisans with whom she figures things out on a regular basis.
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