Erica Lewis
Office Phone: (540) 432-4195
Email:
Office Location: CC 328
Office Hours: By appointment
Assistant Professor
“It is my goal that each nursing student graduate with purpose to not only care well for individual patients but also to build a better health system for our future.”
Erica is a graduate of the EMU nursing program. Her specialty areas include cardiology, acute care, biomedical ethics, and patient safety and quality. Erica and her husband Neal Lewis, owner of Sustainable Solutions of Virginia, have two children in elementary school. For hobbies Erica enjoys going to the gym and cooking with her kids.
PhD
University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
August 2012
MSN
University of Virginia School of Nursing
May 2008
BSN
Eastern Mennonite University Department of Nursing
May 2001
Lewis, E.J., Baernholdt, M.B., & Hamric, A.B. (In Press, Fall 2012). The nurse experience of medical error, an integrative literature review, Journal of Nursing Care Quality.
Campbell, C., Baernholdt, M.B., Yan, G., Hinton, I., & Lewis, E. (In Press, Fall 2012). Racial/ethnic perspectives on the quality of hospice care, American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. DOI 10.1177/1049909112457455
Brothers, D., Condon, E., Cross, B.A., Ganske, K.M., & Lewis, E. (2010). Taming the beast of lateral violence among nurses, Virginia Nurses Today, 18(4).
Moral distress
Invited Speaker: Martha Jefferson Hospital Nursing Forum
Charlottesville, Va
August 2012
Healthcare providers perceptions of safety culture in an academic medical center. SNRS
New Orleans, LA.
Winter 2012
Using evidence to develop a conceptual model for nurse experience of medical error
SNRS
Jacksonville, FL
Winter 2011
Public response to the suggestion that providers suffer after committing a medical mistake
SNRS
Austin, TX
Winter 2010
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church member
Harrisonburg, VA
Virginia Nurses Association
Committee on Ethics and Human Rights member
VA
2009-2011
Founders Award for Evidenced-Based Practice Scholarship
Sigma Theta Tau Pi-Mu Chapter
Harrisonburg, VA
April 12, 2011
Nominated – top student poster presentation
SNRS
Jacksonville, FL
Winter, 2010
American Nurses Association (ANA)
Sigma Theta Tau
Southern Nurses Research Association (SNRS)
Virginia Nurses Association (VNA)
Sigma Theta Tau Pi Mu
Professional Development Day
Harrisonburg, VA
Spring, 2011
Southern Nurses Research Society
Winter, 2009, 2010,2011,2012
EMU IRB
Fall 2012 – Present
Nursing Department; 5 year Strategic Planning Committee
Fall 2010 – Present
Nursing Department; Academic Affairs Committee
Fall 2011 – Present