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Tymkow, Catherine, ND, APRN, WHNP-BC, CNE


Associate Professor - DNP Coordinator
Nursing
Office: C3352
Phone: 708.534.3144
Fax: 708.235.2197
Email: ctymkow@govst.edu

Education | Publications | Presentations | Research | Service | Professional Memberships

Education

Saint Xavier University BS
Saint Xavier University MS
Rush University ND (2001) 

Publications

Tymkow, C. (2011). Clinical scholarship and evidence-based practice. In M. E. Zaccagnini and K.W. White (Eds). The doctor of nursing practice essentials: A new model for advanced practice nursing, (1st ed.) Sudbury, Mass.: Jones & Bartlett.

MacMullen, N., Shen, J. & Tymkow, C. (2010). Adverse maternal outcomes in asthmatic versus non-asthmatic women. Applied Nursing Research, 23(1), e9-e13.

MacMullen, N., Tymkow, C. & Shen, J.J. (2006). Adverse maternal outcomes in women with asthma: Differences by race. American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing, 31 (4), 263-268.

Shen, J.J., Tymkow,C., MacMullen,N. (2005). Disparities in maternal outcomes among four ethnic populations, Ethnicity and Disease, 15(3), 492-497.

Johnson, T. S., Brennan, R., Tymkow, C. (1999).  Design and Implementation of an In-Home Breastfeeding Education Program.  Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing, 28, 5,480-485.

Presentations

Tymkow, C., Lewis, J., Engle, J., Samson, L. (2007). Building Capacity for Substance Abuse Education in Nursing through Transdisciplinary Collaboration, accepted for presentation at the Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honorary Society’s International meeting in Vienna, Austria July 11-13. 2007.

Shen, J., Tymkow,C., MacMullen, N. “Maternal Outcomes Disparities among Four Ethnic Populations” Academy for Health Research and Health Policy Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tenn. June 27-29, 2003.

Tymkow,C. “Integrating the Genetic Pedigree into the Family History Prior to Genetic Counseling”, Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., June 23-24, 2002.  

Tymkow,C. “Genes, genes and more genes: Implications for nursing practice in the new millennium”  Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses( AWHONN) National Convention, Charlotte, North Carolina, June 2001. 
 
Tymkow,C.“Integrating the Genetic Pedigree in the OB/Gyne Health History”, presentation to the Medical and Nursing staff at Illinois Masonic Hospital Grand Rounds, December, 2000.  

Research

Tymkow,C.,Shen, J. , MacMullen, N.  Emergency Department Usage Among Uninsured Patients With Access to a Primary Care Provider. Research in Minority Institutions Grant (HDR). Funded, 2006.

Tymkow,C., Lewis, J., Engle, J., Samson, L.(2005-2008). Enhancing Nursing Practice through Substance Abuse Education. Grant award DHHS/HRSA D11HP05198-0, $553,000.

Service

Community 

Member,  Advisory Board, Access to Care Program of the Chicago Suburban Primary Health Care Council, 2002-present
Executive Committee member, Access to Care Advisory Board, 2004-present
Program Evaluator, National League for Nursing, 2004 to present

University
Member, Faculty Senate, 2003-present
Member, Educational Policies Committee, 2003-present
Chair, Educational Policies Committee 2005-present
McNair Mentor, 2003 present
Library Advisory Committee, 2001-present    

Nursing Program 

Nursing Program Coordinator, January, 2003 to July 2005.
Nursing Program Advisory Committee 2003 to present
Vice President, Lambda Lambda chapter of Sigma Theta Tau , 2002  to 2005
Nursing faculty representative to architectural, space and equipment planning team for nursing program space renovation in F-wing, 2004-2005.  
Nursing Evaluation Committee member, 1998-present
Nursing SOAP coordinator, 1999-2005
Nursing Representative, Illinois Articulation Initiative of the IBHE, 2001 to 2005.
Nursing Program search committee member, 1998-2005 

Professional Memberships

American Public Health Association (APHA)
Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
Illinois Society of Advanced Practice Nurses (ISAPN)
Midwest Nursing Research Society ( MNRS)
National League of Nursing (NLN)
Sigma Theta Tau, Nursing Honorary Society