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Janet M. Witucki Brown PhD, RN		Janet Brown Assistant Professor The University of Tennessee, College of Nursing, 1200 Blvd., Room 141, Knoxville, TN - 37996 - 4180. Phone: (865) 974-8754 Email: jwitucki@utk.edu
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:	Lecture, Clinical Supervision, Student Advising, course coordination N461
COURSES TAUGHT:	N400 –Aging and Society (Co-Coordinator) N461 – Health Restoration: Adult (Course Coordinator)
RESEARCH AND CURRENT PROJECTS :	Alzheimer’s, Dementia Caregivers, help-seeking by elders, Nursing Education, Qualitative Research, and Grounded Theory and ethnography. Grounded theory of husband caregivers of wife's with dementia. Grounded theory of decision-making by elders to enter assisted living facilities. Mixed-method study of culture and health of elder's volunteering for habitat for community. Help-seeking by older husbands caring for wives with dementia Rural Older Appalachian Women’s Formal Patterns of Care
PROFESSIONAL:	ANA, Sigma Theta Tau, NLN, Southern Gerontological Society, Southern Nursing Research Society, and Phi Kappa Phi Member, convenor of Grounded Theory/Ethnography Research team at UT CON.
COMMUNITY:	Volunteer Parish Nurse – Holy Family Catholic Church, Seymour Sevier Co., Board member Senior Citizens Home Assistance Services.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:	Diploma St. Joseph's School of Nursing, Marshfield, Wisconsin, 1967 BSN, Ball State University, Muncie, Ind., 1991. MSN, Ball State University, Muncie, Ind., 1994. PhD, Nursing, UTK, 2000.