Rita Callahan, PhD, RN

Associate Professor 
PLNU School of Nursing 

Contact Information:

Telephone:    619.849.2937                
Email:          ritacallahan@pointloma.edu

• BSN Sophomore Adult Health & Pharmacology
• MSN Teaching Faithfully, Advanced Medical Surgical Clinicals

• San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, BSN
• University of Phoenix, San Diego, CA, MS Organizational Management
• University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, PhD

Extensive nursing career in diverse positions. Established solid clinical relationships throughout numerous clinical sites. Worked in acute care, especially medical/surgical and oncology, home health, and in educational settings.

• Dissertation: "Intergenerational Communication: It's Effect on Early Screening Activites in African-American Adult Daughters of Mothers with Breast Cancer," 2008
• Article: Holistic Home Hospice: Caring for a Dying Father: A Family Hermeneutic Exemplar, 2005; Home Health Care Management and Practice; Sage Publications
• Contributor for Fundamentals in Nursing Book, 2004
• Issue Editor/Writer for Home Health Care Management and Practice Journal, 1999
• Poems and Prayers from the Hearts of the Heartland, 1995
• Contributor for Touched by A Nurse Book, 1992 (2 vignettes published)
• Mercy Cancer Center Home Help Book, 1992

My personal philosophy is that we, as human beings, learn a great deal about ourselves as we care, share, help, and love one another. I enjoy helping others in any way I can. My place is wherever He puts me, and I shall have no excuse for not making a difference where You place me. (Prayers from the Heart, 2005)

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