Joyce M. Black, PhD, RN
An Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, Dr. Black teaches junior and senior level nursing students in medical-surgical and intensive care nursing and supervises research activities of graduate students. Her current funded research is in the area of deep tissue injury, pressure ulcers in ICU and intertriginous dermatitis. Dr. Black has had years of clinical experience as a medical surgical nurse at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, which is affiliated with the Mayo Clinic. Her clinical practice has been in orthopedics, critical care, burn care, respiratory diseases, wound care and plastic surgery. Dr. Black is certified by the American Society of Plastic Surgical Nurses and the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses. She is also a Fellow with the American Practitioners in Wound Care Academy. She serves as lead editor of Medical Surgical Nursing, a textbook for undergraduate nursing students. She is a Past President of the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, has served as the co-chair of the task force to define deep tissue injury, and served as the chair of the task force to update the definitions of the stages of pressure ulcers and, recently, the consensus conference to define unavoidable pressure ulcers.
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An Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, Dr. Black teaches junior and senior level nursing students in medical-surgical and intensive care nursing and supervises research activities of graduate students. Her current funded research is in the area of deep tissue injury, pressure ulcers in ICU and intertriginous dermatitis. Dr. Black has had years of clinical experience as a medical surgical nurse at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, which is affiliated with the Mayo Clinic. Her clinical practice has been in orthopedics, critical care, burn care, respiratory diseases, wound care and plastic surgery. Dr. Black is certified by the American Society of Plastic Surgical Nurses and the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses. She is also a Fellow with the American Practitioners in Wound Care Academy. She serves as lead editor of Medical Surgical Nursing, a textbook for undergraduate nursing students. She is a Past President of the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, has served as the co-chair of the task force to define deep tissue injury, and served as the chair of the task force to update the definitions of the stages of pressure ulcers and, recently, the consensus conference to define unavoidable pressure ulcers.
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