Associate Dean of Research and Scholarship
East Tennessee State Universit
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Vallire Hooper PhD, RN, CPAN, FASPAN, FAAN is an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at East Tennessee State University (ETSU), where she serves as the Associate Dean of Research and Scholarship and the Director of the PhD Program. She has served in these roles since January of 2020. Dr. Hooper is a perioperative/perianesthesia nurse by training, working in the specialty as a staff nurse, CNS, or Nurse Scientist since 1987. Dr. Hooper graduated with her PhD from the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) in 2009, and taught in the undergraduate, Master’s, DNP, and PhD programs while at MCG. Her research portfolio includes clinical outcomes and health services research, to include the use of electronic medical record (EMR) data to analyze practice trends and build predictive models to guide the delivery of safe, quality patient care.
Prior to taking the position at ETSU, Dr. Hooper served as the Nurse Scientist Scholar at Mission Health in Asheville, NC, where she worked with nursing and other disciplines in developing studies, posters, podiums and publications across multiple specialties, as well as facilitated grant and manuscript development. While in that position, Dr. Hooper worked with numerous multi-disciplinary research teams on a total of 29 studies, acquiring $153,500.00 in external research funding, as well as $5 million in HRSA funding aimed at advancing nursing education in the rural setting.
Dr. Hooper served as the first Director of Research for the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses, and has been the Co-Editor for their specialty journal, the Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, for 20 years. She is a Fellow of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses as well as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Hooper’s current research trajectory is focused on the ongoing study of clinical patient outcomes and perioperative/perianesthesia workforce issues as they relate to nurse staffing models and nurse retention, with a specific focus on nursing burnout and fatigue.