Faculty Bio

Oma Riley-Giomariso, Ph.D., CRNP


Associate Professor of Nursing

Coordinator, NUR 450

Education

  • BSN, University of South Florida (1979)
  • MSN, University of Florida (1981)
  • PhD, University of Maryland (1998)

Credentials

  • Clinical Nurse Specialist
  • Nurse Practitioner

Courses

  • Nursing Practicum
  • Seminar I (MS in Nursing)
  • Seminar II (MS in Nursing)
  • Advanced Assessment and Diagnosis (MS in Nursing)

Research Interests

  • Systematic Review: Family Rounds in the Intensive Care Unit
  • Family Rounds in the Intensive Care Unit
  • Hermeneutic Phenomenology
  • Suffering
  • Narrative Pedagogy

Recent Publications

  • Riley-Giomariso, O. (2013). Pedagogy of a wounded healer. Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 32(3).
  • Riley-Giomariso, O. (2013). Redemption. Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 32(5).
  • Eifried, S., Riley-Giomariso, O., and Voight, G. (2001), Learning to care amid suffering: how art and narrative give voice to the student experience. International Journal of Human Caring,5(2), 42-51.

Recent Presentations

  • Riley-Giomariso, O. (2004) Believing, Summer Institute for Heideggerian Hermeneutics, University of Wisconsin.
  • Riley-Giomariso, O. (2003) Stories of Bearing Witness to Suffering, Summer Institute for Heideggerian Hermeneutics, University of Wisconsin.

Service

  • Reviewer (2009) Codman Award Application, Department of Risk Management, Health Corporation of America, Nashville, Tennessee.