Routhier Chair of Practice and Professor of Nursing in the College of Nursing, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI. The Routhier Chair of Practice is charged with nursing workforce issues. Dr.Dunphy is currently the Co-Chair of the Rhode Island Senate Commission on Nursing which has legislation pending for a $3,500 tax-credit incentive for all full time faculty in the state. Additionally, Dr. Dunphy is the PI of a Department of Commerce Economic Development Adminstration University Center award which supports the Rhode Island Center for Nursing Excellence. As the Center Coordinator, Dr. Dunphy participates on a variety of state and regional councils, as well as writing for various state and regional publications, including Op Eds in the Providence Journal. The Center represents a consotrium of all the state nursing programs. She is currently on the Board of the Rhode Island State Nurses Association (RISNA), and a member of Delta Upsilon chapter fo Sigma Theta Tau International. Past-President of Beta Tau chapter (91-95), University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.
Dr. Dunphy is a ANCC certified Family Nurse Practitioner and author of Primary Care: The Art and Science of Advanced Practice Nursing, a large, primary care textbook, going into it's third, and published by FA Davis, Philadelphia, PA. She is co-author on a certification review book for nurse practitioners and was primary author on several management guidelines for nurse practitioners. She previously oversaw the Graduate Program at Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
Dr. Dunphy's research passion is the history of nursing and medicine. She is a longtime member of the American Association of Nursing History (AAHN) as well as the American Association for the History of Medicine. Her research on the polio epidemics, and specifically the development and implementation of the iron lung, the first successful form of mechanical ventialtion, has been widely cited, and presented. She received her basic nursing education at the Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY; her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; her masters degree in psychiatric mental health nursing from Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, NYC, NY, and her PhD from the School of Nursing, the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.