Dr. Schaal Mary G. Schaal, EdD, RN

Contact Dr. Schaal

901 Walnut Street
Suite 807
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 503-8390
fax

Education
EdD, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1989

MSN, The University of Pennsylvania, 1982

BSN, Thomas Jefferson University, 1981

Diploma, Jefferson Medical College Hospital School of Nursing, 1963

University Appointment
Professor, Jefferson School of Nursing, Thomas Jefferson University

Research and Clinical Interests
Curriculum design and development, educational process and outcomes and health promotion and distance learning.

Grants
Scholarship funding: Nurse Scholars Awards, Independence Blue Cross, 8/10, $162,810.

Scholarship funding: PA Higher Education Foundation Nursing Programs, PHEF, 8/10, $200,006.

Scholarship funding: PA Higher Education Foundation Nursing Programs, PHEF, 2/10, $50,000.

Nurse Faculty Line Grant, PA Higher Education Foundation , 1/10, $50,000.

Scholarship funding: PA Higher Education Foundation Nursing Programs, PHEF, 8/09, $309,269.

Scholarship funding: Nurse Scholars Awards, Independence Blue Cross, 8/09, $155,267.

Scholarship funding: New Careers in Nursing, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 8/08, $200,000.

Scholarship funding: PA Higher Education Foundation Nursing Programs, PHEF, 8/08, $428,850.

Scholarship funding: Nurse Scholars Awards, Independence Blue Cross, 8/08, $160,016.

Scholarship funding: PA Higher Education Foundation Nursing Programs, PHEF, 8/07, $498,855.

Scholarship funding: Nurse Scholars Awards, Independence Blue Cross, 8/07, $116,690.

Scholarship funding: PA Higher Education Foundation Nursing Programs, PHEF, 8/06, $472,245.

Scholarship funding: Nurse Scholars Awards, Independence Blue Cross, 8/06, $121,555.

Scholarship funding: PA Higher Education Foundation Nursing Programs, PHEF, 8/05, $368,906.

Scholarship funding: Nurse Scholars Awards, Independence Blue Cross, 8/05, $64,460.

Scholarship funding: PA Higher Education Foundation Nursing Programs, PHEF, 8/04, $89,327.

Traineeship, "Professional Nurses Traineeship Grant", DHHS, 7/02, $57,352.

Traineeship, "Professional Nurses Traineeship Grant", DHHS, 7/01, $44,979.

Traineeship, "Professional Nurses Traineeship Grant", DHHS, 7/00, $35,974.

Traineeship, "Professional Nurses Traineeship Grant", DHHS, 7/99, $49,544.

Project Proposal, "Nightingale Tracker Center of Excellence" 1/98, $15,000.

Office of Population Affairs, "RN to MSN via Distance Learning", 10/96, $101,000.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, "Pennsylvania Partnerships in Training", 10/95, $299,800.

Professional Memberships
American Nurses' Association

American Public Health Association

Jefferson Nurses' Alumni Association

  • Member, Board of Directors, 1997-present

National Nephrology Credentialing Commission, Board member 2007- present

New Jersey State Nurses' Association

  • Member, Cabinet on Education, 1991 -93
  • Member, Board of Directors, 1989-91
  • Member, Search Committee for Executive Director, 1989
  • District #5
    • President, 1989-91
    • Member, Board of Directors, 1983-88; 1991 -93
    • 2nd Vice President, 1984-85
    • Chair, Program Committee, 1987-89

PHENSA, Member, Nominating Committee, 2009- present

Sigma Theta Tau

  • Delta Rho Chapter, 1981 - 86; 1997- present
  • Eta Mu Chapter, 1984 - 1997
  • Faculty Counselor, 1988-92

American Association of University Professors 1982 - 1994

National League for Nursing

National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties

Honors and Awards
Alumni Special Achievement Award, Thomas Jefferson University, 2002

Fellow, AACN Leadership Program, 2002-2003

Fellow, AHERF Leadership Institute, 1996

Robert Wood Johnson Project Grant, 1995

Sigma Theta Tau, Eta Mu Chapter, Research Award Grant, 1992

Who's Who in American Nursing, 1991-95

Sigma Theta Tau, Eta Mu Chapter, Research Award Grant, 1988

Rutgers University Merit Award, 1986

Sigma Theta Tau, Eta Mu Chapter, Research Award Grant, 1984

Magna Cum Laude, University of Pennsylvania, 1982

US Department of Health and Human Services Traineeship Grant, 1982

Summa Cum Laude, Thomas Jefferson University, 1981

Sigma Theta Tau, Thomas Jefferson University, 1981

Additional Publications
Studdiford, James S., et.al., (2009) Images from the Wards, Schaal, M., (Senior Consultant)

Schaal, M.G., Steopan, E.D. (2008), Romania. Mosby's Pocket Guide to Cultural Health Assessment, 4th ed., 593-598

Speakman, E., Schaal, M. (2008), Reducing Obesity in Adolescent Girls and the Power of Positive Education: A Collaboration of the PAL (Police Athletic League) Positive Images Program and Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson School of Nursing. Health Policy Newsletter. Vol.21, No.2.

 

Publications

Most recent Peer-reviewed Publications

  1. The Empathy Enigma: An Empirical Study of Decline in Empathy Among Undergraduate Nursing Students
  2. Reliability and validity of the Jefferson Scale of empathy in undergraduate nursing students
  3. The Jefferson Scale of Attitudes toward Physician-Nurse Collaboration: A study with undergraduate nursing students
  4. Journey to the motherland: Assessing capacity for the prevention of HIV mother-to-child transmission in South Africa
  5. A rural academic-service partnership
  6. Hiring new graduates and the NCLEX-RN prediction factor.
  7. Baccalaureate nursing education: the framework for holistic home health nursing practice.