Teaching: Professor Pieper is a faculty supervisor for BSN students who are doing their preceptorships and MSN practicum students.
Service: Professor Pieper is a charter member of the American Pediatric Nurses Association (APSNA) and served as its President in 2004-2005. She has also served as theChair of the Pediatric Nursing Council of Northeast Florida (PNC) and is a founding member of that organization. Other organizations in which she presently holds membership include the American Nurses Association (ANA), Emergency Nurses Association (ENA), Florida Nurses Association (FNA), NAPNAP, Sigma Theta Tau International, and the Society of Trauma Nurses (STN). She was presented the 2002 APSNA Founders’ Award for excellence in pediatric surgical nursing and was one of the Great 100 Nurses of Northeast Florida in 2003.
Clinical practice area/expertise: Professor Pieper has been associated with the Division of Pediatric Surgery of the University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville Campus since 1984. Her clinical specialty is pediatric surgery, with particular interest in pediatric trauma and neonatal surgery. She has been a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with national certification from the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center (ANCC) since 1992.
Education: Professor Pieper received her BA in Biology from Franklin and Marshall College, BSN in Nursing from Cornell University. She received her MSN in Pediatric Nursing at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, post-masters PNP from the University of Florida, and is currenlty working on her dissertation for her PhD in Nursing from Barry University.
Selected Publications:
Pieper, P. (2007). Pediatric trauma. In N.T. Browne, L.M. Flanigan, C.A. McComiskey, & P. Pieper (Eds.). Nursing care of the pediatric surgical patient (2nd rev. ed., pp. 445-464). Boston: Jones and Bartlett.
Tepas, J.J., Sharma, R., Hudak, M.L., Garrison, R.D., & Pieper, P. (2006). Coming full circle: An evidence-based definition of the timing and type of surgical management of very low-birth-weight (<1000 g) infants with signs of acute intestinal perforation. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 41, 418-422.
Huffman, S., Pieper, P., Jarczyk, K.S., Bayne, A., & O‘Brien, E. (2004). Methods to confirm feeding tube placement: Application of research in practice. Journal of Pediatric Nursing.
Pieper, P., & Tepas, J., III. (2002). Practical aspects of performance improvement in pediatric trauma. Surgical Clinics of North America , 82, 409-418.
Patel, J., Tepas, J., III, Mollitt, D., & Pieper, P. (2001). Pediatric cervical spine injuries: Defining the disease. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 36, 373-376.
Pieper, P. (2000). Pediatric trauma. In C. McKenna, B. Wise & G. Gavin (Eds.), Nursing care of the pediatric general surgery patient. (pp. 459-479). Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen.
