Nursing Research and Statistics Support
Dr. Riggs assists Masters and Doctoral candidates with research
design and planning, and the implementation of data analysis for research projects,
including Theses and Dissertations. She also provides assistance in understanding
and accurately reporting analysis results.
Dr. Riggs is an expert in medical and nursing literature searches
using both database and cross-referencing techniques. She easily navigates the Internet,
and has access to numerous databases, crosslinks, and webpages related to medical and
nursing topics.
Dr. Riggs has comprehensive experience in medical-nursing literature
searches using both database and cross-reference systems. She has conducted medical-legal
literature searches through medical, nursing and law library database and cross-reference
systems.
She has extensively used SPSSX, SAS and BMDP applications for mainframe
in statistical analysis. She has also used SPSSX and SAS applications for PC. She developed
and effectively applied data analysis strategies and protocols for numerous research projects.
She has developed and revised questionnaires and surveys to target and obtain desired data,
performed data collection over a two-year period for longitudinal study. In her own research,
using statistical techniques not previously used in nursing research to patient risking
instruments she applied retrospective research and analysis techniques to existing data.
Dr. Riggs developed a small expert system application (Smart-Flowc)
within Lotus 1-2-3 for risk status analysis and tracking in nursing care
of pregnancy. Smart-Flowc was presented at the National Perinatal
Society annual meeting in 1991. Dr. Riggs uses Smart-Flowc in
obstetric medical malpractice cases to pinpoint time of high-risk condition
onset and to graphically represent progress in pregnancy.
She is familiar with many business and research programs including word
processing (6 programs), spreadsheets (4 programs), databases (4 programs),
statistics (12 programs), and editing (3 programs) for mainframes, LANs,
and PCS. She has done some programming in Fortran, COBOL, Basic, and C
both for mainframes and PCS.
Dr. Riggs is conversant with most Nursing Theorists and their Theories,
and is especially well-versed in Virginia Henderson's Principles and Practice of Nursing,
Ernestine Wiedenbach's Helping Art of Clinical Nursing and Betty Neuman's Systems Model.
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