Virginia Hill Rice,  PhD, RN, CNS, FAAN
Professor  

Wayne State University
College of Nursing
366 Cohn
5557 Cass Avenue
Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 577-4064
(313) 577-5777(FAX)
E-mail: vrice@wayne.edu

EDUCATION:

  • BSN - Boston University, Boston, MA
  • MSN - Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
  • MA - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Ph.D. - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

RESEARCH INTEREST:

    Faculty Appointment , Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit

    Collaboration Director– Detroit Area Health Care institutions

  • Patient Education
  • Stress & Coping
  • Behavior Change (e.g. Smoking Cessation)

CURRENT RESEARCH:

  • Rice, VH (PI) Development and Evaluation of an Arab American Cancer Awareness Program (AA-CAP): A two phase study. Funded by Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation of Michigan. 2004-2007.

  • Rice, VH (PI) Arab American Youth: Tobacco Use and Intervention. Funded by NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. May 1, 2000 through April 30, 2006.

CLINICAL AREA OF EXPERTISE:

  • Clinical Nurse Specialist – Medical/Surgical Nursing

COURSES TAUGHT:

  • NUR 7010 Master's Nursing Research
  • NUR 7110 Human Responses and Experiences in Health & Illness
  • NUR 7120 Advanced Nursing Assessment of Adults (Adult Acute Care Nursing Program)
  • NUR 7998 Master's Research Project
  • NUR 8050 Advanced Quantitative Research Methods
  • NUR 8100 Issues in Scientific Integrity
  • NUR 8200 Topical Doctoral Seminar in Nursing: Stress & Coping: Theory and Research

CURRENT PUBLICATIONS:

    Sarna L, Bialous S, Rice VH, Stead L, Wewers ME (In press) Promoting tobacco control in nursing education. Drug and Alcohol Review.

    Jamil, H, Templin,T, Fakhouri, M, Rice, VH, Khouri, R, Fakhouri, H (In Press) Comparison of Personal Characteristics, Tobacco Use, and Health States in Chaldean, Arab American, and non-Middle Eastern White Adults. Journal of Immigration and Minority Health.

    Rice VH, Stead LF. Nursing interventions for smoking cessation Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews,2008; Issue 1,Art. No:1:CD001188 Oxford, UK.

    Baker, Omar & Rice, VH Predictors of Narghile (Water-pipe) smoking in Yemeni American adolescents. Journal of Transcultural Nursing,2008;19:24-32.

    Rice, VH, Templin T, Hammad A, Weglicki L, Jamil H, Abou-Mediene, S. Collaboration study of tobacco use and its predictors in Arab and non Arab American 9th graders. Ethnicity & Disease Journal,2007;17(2): Suppl 3, 19-21.

    Weglicki, L., Templin, T., Jamil, H., Abou-Mediene, S., Dakroub, M., Hammad, A, Rice, VH (PI) Tobacco use prevalence rates among 14 to 18 year old high school students: Do Arab American Youth differ? Ethnicity & Disease Journal,2007;17(2:Suppl 3, 22-24.

    Jamil H, Rice VH, Hammad A, Jamil L., Pass H. Tobacco use of Arab American adults in Southeast Detroit. Iraqi Medical Journal,2006;52(1):56-61

    Rice VH Nursing interventions for smoking cessation: Meta-analysis Update. Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care,2006;35(3),147-163.

    Wewers ME, Sarna L, Rice VH.Nursing research and treatment of tobacco dependence: State of the Science. Nursing Research,2006;55(4) Sup1,S11-S15.

    Rice VH, Weglicki L, Templin T, Hamad A, Jamil H, & Kulwicki A. Tobacco use and its predictors for Arab American adolescents. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2006;52(2):327-342.

    Rice, VH. (Ed.) Handbook of stress, coping, and health: Implications for nursing theory, research, and practice. Bern, Germany: Huber Publishing, 2005

    Rice, VH. Co-editor Proceedings of the 3nd biennual Arab American Health Conference, Detroit, Michigan, Ethnicity & Disease: International Journal on Population Differences in Disease Patterns,2005;15(1): Supplement 1, Winter 1.

    Rice VH, Templin T., Weglicki LS, Jamil H, Hammad A, Baker O, Kulwicki A, Al-Omran H, Al-Faouri A, Thompson F, Dakroub M, & Abou-Medienne S. Predictors of tobacco use among Lebanese, Yemeni, and Iraqi adolescents. Ethnicity & Disease: International Journal on Population Differences in Disease Patterns,2005;15 (1), Supplement 1, Winter 1. S57-S59.

    Weglicki L, Rice VH, Hammad A. Science and the community: A collaborative model for integration of research within the community. Ethnicity & Disease: International Journal on Population Differences in Disease Patterns,2005;15(1): Supplement 1, Winter 1, S35-S38.

    Rice VH, Stead, L.Nursing interventions for smoking cessation. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Review,2004;Issue 1, Art. No:1:CD001188

OFFICE HOURS:

    By appointment