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Dr. Denise Hammer DNP, RNC-NIC

Assistant Professor
Mennonite College of Nursing
Office
EDW Edwards Hall
  • About
  • Education
  • Awards & Honors
  • Research

Current Courses

316.091Maternal Infant Nursing Clinicals

316.092Maternal Infant Nursing Clinicals

317.007Nursing Care Of Children Clinicals

329.007Public Health Nursing: Prelicensure Clinicals

Teaching Interests & Areas

Maternal Infant Course Leader, Maternal Infant Theory, Maternal Infant Clinical, America's Promise Clinical (Pediatrics/Public Health), Pediatrics Theory, Health Assessment Lab

Research Interests & Areas

Late Preterm Infant, Neonatal hypoglycemia, Nursing Education, Feeding for Fragile Infants, Human Lactation and Feeding

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Nursing

Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois

MSN Nursing

Benedictine University
Lisle, Illinois

Other

Benediction Univeristy
Lisle Illinois

BSN Nursing

Illinois Wesleyan University
Bloomington Illinois

Full Graduate Faculty Member/Status

Illinois State University
2023

Provost Scholarship

Illinois State University
2022

Carle Foundation Nurses Week Essay Writing Contest Winner

Carle Foundation
2021

RISE Award

Illinois State Univeristy
2020

Nominated for the University Research Initiative Award

Illinois State University
2019

Nurse Educator Fellow

Illinois Board of Higher Education
2019

Associate Graduate Faculty Status

Illinois State Universtiy
2018

2016 Nurses Week Story Contest 2nd Place

Advocate BroMenn Medical Center
2016

Nurses Week 2013 Story Contest Winner

Advocate BroMenn medical Center
2013

Julie Schaffer Research Fellowship

Advocate Healthcare
2012

Journal Article

Hammer, D., Sidebottom, K., Drury, B., Philpott, A., & Tay, L. Keeping Families Close: A Hospital Sponsored Boarder Program that Facilitates Parents Presence at the Infant's Bedside. Neonatal Network, The Journal of Neonatal Nursing 44.3 (2022): 150-158.
Hammer, D., Pohl, C., Jacobs, P., Kaufman, S., & Drury, B. Innovations and Challenges of Implementing a Glucose Gel Toolkit for Neonatal Hypolycemia. Pamela A. Harris_Haman and Ksenia Zukowsky (EDs). Advances in Neonatal Care/Wolters Kluwer 18.5 (2018): 378-385.

Presentations

A Safe Place to Learn: Improving Schools Health Emergencies. Mennonite College of Nursing Virtual Scholarship Symposium: Research, Evidence-Based Practice, and Innovation.. Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois State University and SIGMA. (2023)
“I Am Human Too! A Conversation about Health Care Equity”. “I Am Human Too! A Conversation about Health Care Equity”. Illinois State University Multicultural Center. (2023)
DEU. DEU Development Day for Preceptors. Mennonite College of Nursing and Carle BroMenn Medical Center. (2022)
Going for the Gold: Improving Outcomes Through Infant Safe Sleep. Cribs for Kids Spring Conference. Cribs for Kids. (2022)
Going for the Gold: Improving Outcomes Through Infant Safe Sleep. Mennonite College of Nursing Research Symposium. Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois State University. (2022)
Its’s all About your: Delivering Respectful Care in Maternal Child. McDowell Stafford Lectureship Series in Child and Family Health Educational Lecture. McDowell Stafford Lectureship Series in Child and Family Health Trust and Mennonite College of Nursing. (2022)
Perception of tobacco use risk, maternal fetal attachment, and perceived stress as factors associated with tobacco use during pregnancy. Midwest Nursing Research Society. MNRS. (2022)
Perception of tobacco use risk, maternal fetal attachment, and perceived stress as factors associated with tobacco use during pregnancy. Mennonite College of Nursing Research Symposium. Mennonite College of Nursing and SIGMA XI PI chapter. (2022)
Respectfully Nursing Care: What patient Should Expect!". McDowell Stafford Lecture Series in Child and Family Health Community Lecture. McDowell Stafford Trust and Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois State University. (2022)
The Physiologic and Emotional Effects of Music Therapy in the NICU. Mennonite College of Nursing Research Symposium. Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois Stat. (2022)

Grants & Contracts

Impact of a Dedicated Education Unit Clinical Model versus Traditional Clinical Model for Accelerated Bachelors Nurses. Sigma Theta Tau International Epsilon, Epsilon Chapter Research Grant. Other. (2023)
Impact of a Dedicated Education Unit Clinical Model versus Traditional Clinical Model for Accelerated Bachelors Nurses. Sigma Theta Tau International, XI PI Chapter. Other. (2023)
University Research Grant Research Development Award. Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois Stat. Illinois State University. (2021)
University Reserch Grant Research Development Award. Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois Stat. Illinois State University. (2021)
Mennonite College of Nursing Summer Research Fellowship. Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2020)