Dr. Murray's research interests are in social and cultural factors that affect health and healthcare decision-making, and how to teach these concepts to future healthcare professionals (e.g. doctors and nurses). In 2015, she completed her doctoral dissertation in The Kingdom of Swaziland, Africa where she interviewed rural Swazi women about their health concerns and needs. The theoretical approach to this study was published in the Journal of Theory Construction and Testing in 2016. Prior to this, she accompanied health students to Swaziland in 2014 and published a study on internal processes that students utilize to make meaning and transform their cultural understanding of experiences that create stress and cultural dissonance for them.
Publications
Murray, B. (2016). Critical ethnography and the PEN-3 model: An analysis of women’s health in Swaziland. Journal of Theory Construction and Testing, 20 (1). 20-30
Judge, D., Murray, B., Hughes-Gay, M., & Robinson, D. (2016). Building bridges: Collaboration between community college and university. Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 11. 58-61. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.teln.2015.12.001
Murray, B.A. (2015). Nursing students' experiences of healthcare in Swaziland: Transformational processes in developing cultural understanding. Journal of Nursing Education, 54(9). September Supplement. S65-S73. doi: 10.3928/01484834-20150814-13
McCormick, U., Murray, B., & McNew, B. (2015). Diagnosis and treatment of patients with bipolar disorder: A review for advanced practice nurses. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 27(9). doi: 10.1002/2327-6924.12275
Murray, B.A. (2014). The use of high-fidelity simulation in psychiatric and mental health nursing clinical education. International Journal of Health Sciences Education, 2(1). Available at: http://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol2/iss1/3
Murray, B.A. & Ballard, K. (2013). Disorders first seen in infancy, childhood and adolescents. In Psychiatric Nursing, (2nd ed.) O’Brien & Ballard, Eds. Boston, MA: Jones & Bartlett, Inc.
Murray, B.A. (2010). Psychiatric nursing update: Current trends in diagnosing and treatment. (2nd Ed.) Boston, MA: Western Schools, Inc.
Murray, B.A. (2007). Disorders first seen in infancy, childhood and adolescents. In Psychiatric Nursing O’Brien & Ballard, Eds. Boston, MA: Jones & Bartlett, Inc.
Murray, B.A. (2004). Psychiatric nursing update: Current trends in diagnosing and treatment, Boston, MA: Western Schools, Inc.