Dr. Skarbek is the RN-BSN program director and teaches in the program. In addition to Dr. Skarbek’s teaching and RN-BSN administrative experience, she served as a charge nurse, nurse manager and interim nurse director for a large university hospital for their cardiac units. Dr. Skarbek was also employed as a school nurse in K-12 school settings.
Dr. Skarbek’s MSN degree is in Nursing Education and her PhD degree is in Education. Her research centers on issues involving the nursing workforce environment specifically, nurse burnout, incivility and bullying, nurse attrition, and their association with patient outcomes and recruitment into the profession.
Skarbek, A., Mastro, K. A., Kowalski, M. O., Caruso, J., Cole, D. A., de Cordova, P. B., Johansen, M. L., Vitale, T. R., & Weaver, S. H. (2002). Nursing Work Environment Staffing Councils: An Alternative to Mandatory Regulated Staffing Ratios. Journal of Nursing Administration, 52(7-8), 419-426. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNA.0000000000001175
Cole, D.A., Bersick, E., Skarbek, A, Cummins, K., Dugan, K. & Grantoza, R. (2019). The courage to speak out: A study describing nurses’ attitudes to report unsafe practices in patient care. Journal of Nursing Management, 27(6), 1176-1181. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12789
Kile, D., Skarbek, A. & Thurby-Hay, L. (2018). Bullying and lateral incivility: Have you and your patients been affected? Virginia Nurses Today, 16(4), 9.
Sims, D.C. & Skarbek, A.J. (2018). Parental self-efficacy: A concept analysis related to teen parenting and implications for school nurses. The Journal of School Nursing, 1-7. doi: 10.11771059840518755871.
Miller, L., Russell, C., Cheng, A.L., & Skarbek, A. (2015). Evaluating undergraduate nursing students’ self-efficacy and competence in writing: Effects of a writing intensive intervention. Nurse Education in Practice,15(3), 174-180. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr2014.12.002.
Skarbek, A.J., Johnson, S. & Dawson, C. (2015). A phenomenological study of nurse manager interventions related to workplace bullying. Journal of Nursing Administration, 45, 10, 492-497. doi: 10.1087/NNA.000000000000024.
Project Title: Examining Attrition in the Nursing Profession: Person and System-Level
Factors that Contribute to Intentions to Leave
Agency: University of Missouri-Kansas City – Art of Grantsmanship
Principal Investigator: Chesnut, S., Co-PI, Skarbek, A., Co-PI, Gorton, K., Co-PI
Date Submitted: October, 2022
Proposed Dates of Project Period: 2023-2024
Projected Total Costs: $4,000
Project Title: Nutrition and Wellness in Rural Missouri Schools: The MENU-KC Study
Agency: University of Missouri-Kansas City – Funding for Excellence
Principal Investigator: Chrisman, M., Co-PI, Skarbek, A., Co-PI
Date Submitted: December, 2021
Proposed Dates of Project Period: 2022-2023
Projected Total Costs: $8,954.00Virginia Nurses Association Workforce Issues Commission Lateral Incivility Workgroup – 2018 to present
Virginia Nurses Association Healthy Workplace Culture Workgroup – 2018 to present
American Nurses Association, Workplace Violence and Incivility Professional Issues Panel, 2014-2015
B.S.N., University of Missouri-Kansas City
M.S.N., University of Missouri-Kansas City
Ph.D., Walden University