Associate Professor School of Nursing Alumni Hall, Room 2337 Phone:650-5986 E-mail: mbaier@siue.edu

A picture of me, my mother, and my sister.

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Ph.D. in Nursing, Saint Louis University, 1995
M.S. in Psychiatric/Community Mental Health Nursing, SIUE, 1977
B.S.N., University of Illinois College of Nursing, 1972

Certified Specialist in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, ANCC, 2001-2005

I have taught psychiatric nursing both at SIUE and at Jewish Hospital College. Prior to teaching, I worked as a therapist/ case manager at mental health centers in Granite City, Waterloo, and Carthage, Illinois. I also worked for one year as a home health nurse with the VNA of St. Clair County.

Courses

Summer 2003
Nursing 505 -001, 502  Health Policy and Advanced  Nursing Practice

Fall 2003
Nursing 317-002, Undergraduate Nursing Research
Nursing 500-002, Theoretical Foundations of Nursing
Nursing 505-001, Health Policy and Advanced  Nursing Practice

Selected Publications:

Baier, M. (in press). Stress and coping. In P. Potter & A. Perry (Eds.), Fundamentals of nursing (6th ed.). St. Louis: Mosby.

Baier, M. (2003). Stress and coping. In P. Potter & A. Perry (Eds.), Basic nursing: Essentials for practice (5th ed., pp. 491-504). St. Louis: Mosby.

Murray, R., & Baier, M. (2002). Care of the homeless mentally ill. In M.A. Boyd (Ed.), Psychiatric nursing: Contemporary practice (2nd ed., pp. 858-873). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Baier, M., DeShay, E., Owens, K., Robinson, M., Lasar, K., Peterson, K., & Bland, R.S. (2000).The relationship between insight and clinical factors for persons with schizophrenia. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 14, 259-265.

Baier, M., & Murray, R.L.E. (1999). A descriptive study of insight into illness reported by persons with schizophrenia. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing, 37(1), 14-21.

Updated May 11, 2003