Rose E. Constantino, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN, FACFE
Associate Professor
Department of Health & Community Systems

School of Nursing
415 Victoria Building
3500 Victoria Building
Pittsburgh, Pa. 15261

Email:  rco100@pitt.edu
Phone: 412-624-2063
FAX:      412-383-7293

Faculty Research

RESEARCH:
 Recently, she submitted an R34 through NIMH in an area related to the mental health consequences of violence and trauma in survivors of SARA (sexual assault, rape, and abuse) that will serve as a prerequisite for conducting a larger RO1 study and provide impetus toward policy development and translation into practice in SARA care. A funded Cluster grant was funded by NIH – Division of Nursing NRE/DPN on Elderly Widows' Responses to Bereavement. This was followed by an RO1 NR02108-03 from NIH National Center for Nursing Research on Nursing Postvention for Widows and Widowers, funded in 1991-1994. Several small intramural funding was received from the University of Pittsburgh. For example in 2000-2002, the University of Pittsburgh Central Research Development Fund, funded Stress, Social Support, and Health Outcomes in Abuse. In 2001-2002 the University of Pittsburgh High Performance Network Applications funded a Delivery of Digital Media in Teaching and Research. In 2003-2004 University of Pittsburgh Office of the Provost, funded Testing the Feasibility of Email as a form of Therapeutic Interaction with Abused Women and their Children. In 2004-2005, the University of Pittsburgh Office of the Provost and the Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence funded on Reducing Health Care Disparities by Teaching Culturally Competent Nursing Care Through Web-based Video Tutorials. Currently, she and other researchers at the University of Pittsburgh from the SON, GSPH, GSPH-EDC are collaborating with clinicians from the VA at Highland Drive and Pittsburgh Action Against Rape to submit to NIMH an R24-Interventions and Practice Research Infrastructure Program (IP-RISP) to form a partnership between community-based clinical settings and research institutions to enhance the national capacity to conduct research that will inform mental health service delivery.

TEACHING:
She started to teach public health nursing and psychiatric-mental health nursing as soon as she completed her Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing Degree in 1962 at the Philippine Union College of Nursing, now Adventist University of the Philippines, in Manila, Philippines, then at Spring Grove State Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, to Montefiore Hospital, and to the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing in 1971. Her academic strengths are her knowledge and skills in group theory, group dynamics, and advocacy as applied to teaching, committee work, and consultation. She helps others to grow and fulfill their potential by building their clarity of vision, self-confidence, assertiveness, and risk taking. After she received her law degree and license to practice law, she shifted her research topic and interest from “nursing care of women whose spouse committed suicide” to “women and children who experience SARA (sexual assault, rape, and abuse)” to match her clinical nursing and pro bono law practice.

Her teaching experience relates to small studies on health outcomes of women who are abused by their male intimate partner and women whose spouse committed suicide. With her law practice in family law, she guest lectures on the ethical, legal, and sociocultural issues (ELSI) in nursing practice and in the role of nurses, lawyers and physicians in caring for abused women. Currently, she teaches several courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs: Intro to Legal Nurse Consulting and Forensic Nursing; Advanced Forensic Nursing; Legal Nurse Consulting and Forensic Nursing practicum; Forensic Psychiatric Mental Health, Correctional Nursing; Leadership in Professional Nursing Practice, and Independent Study. These are all Web-Based/Web-Supported courses, conducive to students’ learning and work scheduling needs. She has developed a Certificate Program in Legal Nurse Consulting and Forensic Nursing and an MSN Minor in Legal Nurse Consulting and Forensic Nursing. She is adviser to undergraduate and graduate students.

SERVICE:
Currently, she is a member of the following School Committees:

1. Calling Alumni Project-Calling 4,095 Alumni and assess their service and contribution to nursing and pursuit of higher education to build a database to reduce nursing shortage
2. Volunteer Alumni Advisory Committee, Member
3. Bylaws Committee, Chair
4. Evaluation and Steering Committee, Member

Currently, she is a member of the following University Committees:

1. Volunteer Alumni Network to Enhance Database Group, Member
2. Filipino Student Association of the University of Pittsburgh, Faculty Adviser
3. International Association of University Professors
4. Tenure and Academic Freedom Committee, 1999-2000, 2004-Present
5. University of Pittsburgh Institutional Review Board-2005- Present

Her past service to University committees included Membership to ;Senate and University Athletics Committee, 1980-1986, 1988- 1989; Chairperson, Senate Athletics Committee, 1985-1986, 1988- 1989; Senate Secretary,1990-1991; Senate Vice President, 1993- 1995.

She volunteers her services to the following local, state, national and international organizations. Examples of her volunteer work are:

1. Pittsburgh Action Against Rape (PAAR)-President of the BOD
2. Sexual Assault Response Team of Allegheny County (SARTAC)-Vice President of the BOD
3. The Health Care Law Committee of the Pa Bar Association-Vice Chair
4. Pennsylvania Legal Access for Women (PaLAW), President of the BOD
5. Nursing Foundation of Pa (NFP), President of the BOD
6. American Nurses Foundation (ANF), Member of the BOT
7. The Dr. Rose Eva Bana Constantino Nursing Research Partnership of the Philippines. Below is a brief description and contact information of the REBC NRP as developed by the
   1. Brokenshire College SOCSKSARGEN
      Ced Avenue, Lagao, National Highway
      9500 General Santos City, Philippines
      Telefax: 63 83 301 7910
      E-mail: secretariat@mail.betanudelta.com
      Website: http://www.betanudelta.com

A Summary of the Founding of the REBC NRP below:
[Filipino nurses are important health care professionals and major contributors to the wealth and health of the Filipino nation and globally. Partnerships give the Philippines a unique platform to nurture its global presence in nursing manpower and research in an increasingly competitive global economic and practice environment. Using the “Grant it First or GIFT” approach, successful nurse professionals all over the globe are tapped and mobilized to create opportunities back home in their sphere of specialties. To ensure we capture the opportunities presented by Filipino nurses globally, the Beta Nu Delta Nursing Society developed a partnership with select schools of nursing to build a nursing research infrastructure in the Philippines, thus, the birth of the Dr. Rose Eva Bana Constantino Nursing Research Partnership (REBC NRP). This partnership is a multi-pronged nursing research initiative in the Philippines. It is designed as an infrastructure building measure to develop nursing research in the Philippines. The initial phase of the partnership aims to provide competitive research grants, identify nurse fellows and nurse scholars, and sponsor exemplary research papers for presentation at the annual PNA convention and regional conferences. Gradually, it will include mentoring nurse researchers, implementing research initiatives, recognition of nursing graduate/undergraduate and faculty researchers, and publication of evidence-based research studies.]

Some of her selected recent scholarly work/publications are:

Constantino, R.E., Sekula, L., Rabin, B., & Stone, C. (2000). Negative life experiences, depression and immune functions in abused and non-abused women. Biological Research for Nursing, 1, 190-198.

Constantino, R.E., Sekula, K, Lebish, J., & Buehner, E. (2002). Depression and behavioral manifestations of depression in female survivors of the suicide of their significant other and female survivors of abuse. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 8(1) pp. 27-32.

Constantino, R.E., Sekula, L., & Rubenstein, E.N. (2001). Nursing intervention for survivors whose spouses committed suicide. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behaviors. 31(4) pp. 428-441.

Constantino, R.E., Crane, P., Symonds, H., Sutton, L. (2002). The role of the forensic nurse in the assessment of abuse. The Forensic Examiner 11(5-6), pp. 22-28.

Crane, P. & Constantino, R. E. (2003). Use of the interpersonal support experiencing abuse. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 24:523-541.

Crane, P. & Constantino, R.E. (2003). Is E-mail interaction feasible for Intervention with women and children exposed to domestic violence? ;Medscape from WebMD eNursing.

Crane, P. & Constantino, R.E. (2003). Is E-mail interaction feasible for intervention with women and children exposed to domestic violence? Medscape from WebMD eNursing.

Constantino, R. E., Doswell, W. M., Noll, B., Braxter, E. (2005). Exploring The feasibility of email-based intervention in survivors of abuse. Eastern Nursing Research Society Book of Abstracts, 17th Annual Scientific Sessions.

Constantino, R.E., Kim, Y. & Crane, P.A. (2005). Effects of a social support intervention on health outcomes in residents of a domestic violence shelter: A pilot study. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 26:1- 16.

Datillo, E and Constantino, RE (2006). Root cause analysis and nursing management responsibilities in wrong site surgery.  Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing. 25:1-5.

Constantino, RE (2007). Translation of ethical, sociocultural and accountability issues in the nurse/lawyer’s practice. Journal of Nursing Law.

Constantino, RE, Crane, PA, Noll, B, Doswell, WM, & Braxter, B, (2007). Exploring the Feasibility of Email Mediated Intervention in Survivors of Domestic Violence. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.

Constantino, RE (2007). A Transdisciplinary team acting on evidence through analysis of moot malpractice cases. Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing 26(4)150-155.

Constantino, RE & Crane PA (Accepted for Publication). Abuse protection support. In A Clinical Guide to Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing by Ackley, Ladwig, Swan, and Tucker. Mosby.

Zalon, ML, Constantino, RE & Andrews, KL (Accepted for Publication for DCCN). The right to pain treatment: A reminder for nurses.

Constantino, RE & Zalon, ML (Accepted for Publication for Nursing Management) “Legal Issues in Pain Management” as a Legal Checkpoints Column for 2008.

Constantino, RE & Crane PA (Accepted for Publication). Violence Prevention: Environmental management. In A Clinical Guide to Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing by Ackley, Ladwig, Swan, and Tucker. Mosby.

Selected research presentations to local/state/national and/or international audience are:

1. 1. To the Rutgers 24th Annual International Nursing Computer and technology Conference on “Email as a Form of Social Support in Nurse Caring for Survivors of Domestic Violence”, May 25-28, 2006, Toronto, Canada
2. To the UP SOM Leo H. Criep Symposium on Provider-Patient Communication on “Testing the feasibility of Email in Patient-Provider Communication” a Poster presentation, April 6-7, 2006, UPSOM, Pittsburgh, PA
3. To the 6th Southern States Knowledge Conference: Youth Violence Prevention on “Social Support for Children Exposed to Violence” March 30- April 1, 2006, San Antonio, Texas
4. To the 14th National Conference of the ACFEI on “The nurse as a clear and convincing expert witness” September, 2006, Buena Vista Palace, Orlando Florida
5. To the National State of the Science Congress in Nursing Research on “Testing the Feasibility of Email in Patient-Provider Communication”. October, 2006, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington DC.
6. To the Eighth Annual Evidence-Based Conference on “Acting on Evidence for Survivors of Sexual Assault, Rape and Abuse (SARA)” a paper presentation, February 2007, Pointe South Mountain Resort Phoenix, Arizona.
7. To the Eighth International Congress in Nursing Conference on “Assessing Skills, Knowledge and Cultural Competence of Emergency Room Nurses Caring for SARA” May, 2007, Yokohama, Japan
8. To the Nineteenth STTI Nursing Research Congress Focusing on Evidence- Based Practice Collaboration: A Transdisciplinary Roadmap to Discovery on “A Retrospective Assessment and Analysis of malpractice cases to Enhance Health Policy” July 2007, STTI, Vienna, Austria.