University of Colorado Health Science Center
School of Nursing
4200 East 9th Avenue, C288-18, Room 3981
Denver, CO
USA 80262
Email: nancy.lowe@uchsc.edu
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Nancy K. Lowe is a professor at the University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center School of Nursing in Denver, CO. From 2002 until 2007 she was the Elnora Thomson Distinguished Professor at Oregon Health & Science University Schools of Nursing and Medicine in Portland, OR and from 1987 until 2002 professor at the Ohio State University Colleges of Nursing and Medicine. She received a PhD in nursing science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and was trained as a nurse-midwife at the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. Her research has focused on the experience of pain during childbirth, women's self-efficacy for labor, supportive care in labor, and military women’s self-care of genitourinary infections. Current work is also focused on the use of simulation training to improve team performance and patient safety in obstetric emergencies and dystocia as the primary factor associated with cesarean section in healthy nulliparous women. She has published in the journal Pain, the Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, Research in Nursing and Health, the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing (JOGNN), the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, MCN, The Nurse Practitioner, the Jacob’s Institute’s journal Women’s Health Issues, The American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology , JAMA and Military Medicine. In 1997, Dr. Lowe became the associate editor of JOGNN, The Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing and assumed the editorship in 2001. She is a fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives and the American Academy of Nursing.