Education
Ph.D., George Mason University
M.S.N., University of Virginia
B.S.N., Columbia University
B.A., Pennsylvania State University
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., George Mason University
M.S.N., University of Virginia
B.S.N., Columbia University
B.A., Pennsylvania State University
Nurse well-being (burnout, moral distress)
Organizational behavior (institutional betrayal, instituational courage)
Public health
Nursing administration
Norful, A. A., Brewer, K. C., Cahir, K. M., & Dierkes, A. M. (2024). Individual and organizational factors influcing well-being and burnout amongst healthcare assistants: A systematic review. International Journal of Nursing Science Studies Advances. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnsa.2024.100187
Sessions, L. C., Kim, H. J., Brewer, K. C., El-Banna, M. M., & Farina, C. L. (2024). Intrinsic factors and psychological safety among nursing students during simulation-based learning – a correlational design. Simulation in Healthcare. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/sih.0000000000000795
Brewer, K. C., Dierkes, A. M., & Norful, A. A. (2024). Organizational trust breaches among nurses and aides: A qualitative study. Nursing Ethics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/09697330241230520
Weissinger, G. M., Swavely, D., Holtz, H., Brewer, K. C, Alderfer, M., Lynn, L., Yoder, A., Adil, T., Wasser, T., Cifra, D., & Rushton, C. (2024). Critical care nurses’ moral resilience, moral injury, institutional betrayal, and traumatic stress after COVID-19. American Journal of Critical Care, 33(2), 105-114. https://doi.org/10.4037/ajcc2024481
Brewer, K. (2023). Institutional courage: An antidote to institutional betrayal and broken trust. Nurse Leader, 21(4), 449-454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2023.04.005
Brewer, K. C., Horning, M. A., Walker, M. S., & Ness, M. E. (2023). Analyzing the effects of family presence and visitation restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic among nurse leaders and non-nurse leaders. Journal of Nursing Administration, 53(3), 132-137. https://doi.org/10.1097/nna.0000000000001258
Norful A. A., Brewer, K., Adler, M., & Dierkes, A. (2023). Initial psychometric properties of the provider-co-management index-RN to scale registered nurse-physician co-management: Implications for burnout, job satisfaction, and intention to leave current position. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 37(5), 797-806. https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2022.2164563
Brewer, K. C., Ziegler, H., Kurdian, S., & Nguyen, J. (2023). Relationships of individual and workplace characteristics with nurses' moral resilience. Nursing Ethics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/09697330231161692
Ceres, C. A., Brewer, K. C., & Agnew, J. (2023). The Good Jobs Initiative: Defining, measuring, and promoting high-quality U.S. jobs. Workplace Health and Safety, 71(9), 445. https://doi.org/10.1177/21650799231190880
Brewer, K. C. (2021). Institutional betrayal in nursing: A concept analysis. Nursing Ethics, 28(6), 1081-1089. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733021992448