Professor, McAuley School of Nursing, College of Health Professions
2018
Bio:
Joining University of Detroit Mercy as an Assistant Professor in 1996, Dr. Carla Groh earned academic rank of Associate Professor (1999) and Professor (2008) in the McAuley School of Nursing, College of Health Professions. For the mission-related McAuley Health Center, Professor Groh served as Project Director from 2010 and Psychotherapist from 2007 until retirement. Since 2000 Professor Groh engaged in intercollege collaboration by teaching in the Women and Gender Studies program.
Preceding appointment with the university, Professor Groh served as Psychotherapist with Mercy Primary Care Center, Detroit Michigan (2002-2018); Nurse Practitioner with Detroit Central City Community Mental Health, Inc., Detroit (2000-2003); Co-therapist for groups at Women’s Groups of Mental Health, Farmington Farms, Michigan (1996-2010); Director of Psychiatric Service, Holy Cross Hospital, Detroit (1994-1996); Clinical Nurse Specialist, Holy Cross Hospital, Detroit (1991-1994); Clinical Nurse Specialist, Geripsychiatric Unit, Lafayette Clinic (1984-1991), Detroit; Field Nurse, team leader, liaison service, Visiting Nurses Association, Detroit (1974-1984); and staff nurse, neurosurgery and neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit (1972-1974).
Since 2008, Professor Groh has taught graduate-level Research Methods in Health Care, doctoral-level Evidence Based Nursing Practice: Theory, Design and Methods, and doctoral-level Psychosocial Issues & Health Integration Across the Lifespan. During this time span Professor Groh has also taught Nursing Research, Nursing Leadership & Management, Advanced Statistics, and Women and Gender Studies, Introduction to Gender Studies.
In the emerita nomination support letter, Neal Rosenburg, Dean, College of Health Professions wrote “Over the last ten years, Dr. Groh has continued to build and disseminate her outstanding record of teaching, scholarship, service and mission. Most notably, Dr. Groh has successfully built a record of success by weaving together her work in all four categories into a holistic model in which each category intersects with advancement of nursing science, pedagogy, and humanism….Dr. Groh has consistently taught in both undergraduate and graduate curricula. Her evaluations are stellar. She successfully leads in the classroom and clinical milieu as evidenced by her record of mentoring junior faculty in teaching, scholarship, and service.”
In Dr. Mary White, Professor, McAuley School of Nursing, College of Health Professions emerita nomination support letter, Dr. White noted “Dr. Groh exemplifies the mission by firsthand knowledge of being ‘student centered’. As an RN-BSN student Dr. Groh taught the course ‘families in crisis’ and it is one of the courses that to this day directed me to return back to the University of Detroit Mercy to advance my education as a family nurse practitioner. Dr. Groh in that course discussed aspects of the family with such grace and respect, sensitive topics of domestic violence, depression and many ethical dilemmas and all in the context of inclusion and expansion of the meaning of family; both on a local, national and international context. Dr. Groh’s advising and mentorship continues and I was one of two students to accomplish masters thesis’s not required for the degree, though she explained to advance for a PhD it would be beneficial.”
Professor Groh has been a consistent contributor to academic scholarship through publication in peer-review journals, book and book chapters, and oral presentations. Since 2009, twenty-one articles were accepted for publication in peer-review journals, four book chapters and one book written and published, twenty-six presentations given, and eight posters of student/faculty research presented as part of Detroit Mercy’s Celebration of Scholarship Achievement.
Peer-reviewed articles covered topics such as Aftermath of Suicide: A Qualitative Study with Guyanese Families in Archives of Psychiatric Nursing; Confronting Compassion Fatigue: Assessment and Intervention in the Inpatient Oncology Setting in Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing; The Effective Use of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses in Integrated Care: Policy Implication for Increasing Quality and Access to Care in The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research; Suicide in Guyana: Nurses’ Perspective in Journal of Forensic Nursing; Depression and Diabetes in a Primarily African American Female Population in Issues in Mental Health Nursing; Vitamin D, Depression and Coping Self-efficacy in Young Women: Longitudinal Study in Archives of Psychiatric Nursing; Prevalence and Patterns of Substance Abuse Among Nurse Anesthesia Students in AANA Journal; Depression Screening and Treatment in Uninsured Urban Patients in Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine; Depression in Rural Women: Implications for Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care Settings in Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners; Dialysis and Sexuality in Nephrology Nursing Journal; Service Learning in Nursing Education: Its Impact on Leadership and Social Justice in Nursing Education Perspectives; Poverty, Mental Health and Women: Implications for Psychiatric Nurses in Primary Care Settings in Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association; and The Art of Communicating ART Results: An Analysis of Couples’ Experience in Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology.
Women’s Mental Health: A Clinical Guide for Primary Care Practitioners is Professor Groh’s book while book chapters include Chronic Low Self-Esteem and Situational Low Self-Esteem, Foundations of Women’s Mental Health, Sexuality and Intimacy, Older Women, Self-esteem Disturbances, and Geriatric Depression. In addition, Professor Groh contributed Families and Health Care in Michigan Family Review; Independent Prescriptive Authority for Psychiatric Nurses Practitioners in Michigan in SERPN News Series; Management Techniques with Difficult Behaviors in Respite Volunteer Training Manual for the Alzheimer’s Association and Related Disorders of Southern Michigan.
Juried Presentations are numerous covering subject as Interprofessional Approach to Improving Primary Care and Behavioral Health Outcomes in an Urban-Based Nurse-led Clinic; Outcomes in Bereaved Caregivers; Suicide; Interprofessional Collaboration Social Media and Group Support; Innovative Behavioral Health Programs in Nurse-Led Care; Doulas, Mothers, and Cell Phones; Step Into Health; Depression Recognition Assessment and Intervention; The Evaluation of a LifeStyle Change Program for Obese African American Women; Depression and Quality of Life in Women After a Myocardial Infarction; Psychosis in Women,;Women and Mood Disorders; Developing Nurse Practitioners; Group Therapy and the Entrepreneurial APN; Adolescent Female Offenders and Relational Theory; and Mother-Daughter Attachment in Adulthood.
Professor Groh‘s academic research and implementation of community programs were supported through over three million dollars in grants from the federal government, foundations, and university. The mission-centered grants allowed for expanding access to primary care for medically underserved adults and children in Detroit, implementation of a pediatric asthma management program in metro Detroit, an innovative patient-centered, nurse driven model to increase access to specialty care and improve health outcomes, prevention of Type 2 diabetes mellitus in low-income African American children, healing power of the traditional fiber arts in a primary care setting, and establishing an interdisciplinary domestic violence committee at Detroit Mercy.
Beyond teaching, research, and scholarship, an additional criteria for promotion in academic rank is service, service to the university, a faculty member’s college, and general community. To fulfill this responsibility, some highlights of Professor Groh’s university commitment are service on search committees for the positions of Director of Sponsored Programs and Research Activities, University President, Athletic Director, Women’s Head Basketball Coach, and Men’s Head Basketball Coach. Professor Groh served on University Promotion and Tenure Committee, Women and Gender Studies Steering Committee, Advisory Committee for Office of Sponsored Programs and Research Activities, Faculty Athletic Representative, and Strategic Planning Task Force. For the College of Health Professions, Professor Groh served on Promotion & Tenure, International, Interdisciplinary, Academic Progression, DNP Planning and Implementation, and Graduate Nursing committees.
Professor Groh has demonstrated a strong commitment to the mission of Detroit Mercy. In the nomination packet Professor Groh wrote about her experience with the McAuley Health Center, a nurse-led primary health clinic on the lower east side of Detroit. “The mission of the clinic is to provide high quality care to some of our most vulnerable and marginalized citizens in Detroit. I have been involved with the clinic since it opened in 2002 (providing behavioral health services on-site) but became even more involved in 2010 when I was appointed project director for the clinic, implementing a HRSA Grant. I have served in this positon since 2010, securing several foundation and federal grants for specific programs that benefit the patients who seek health care at the clinic.”
Two medical mission-related trips to Guyana to provide needed medical care to the Guyanese citizens allowed Professor Groh opportunities to lecture on suicide and suicide prevention to nurses and social workers, to provide behavioral health services to a psychiatrist working Guyana, and to interview Guyanese nurses about their perceptions of the nurse-physician relationship and the reasons that nurses migrated abroad. The CHP International Committee receiving a grant has allowed for the study “if an immersion health care experience with the Bangladeshis population in Hamtramck [Michigan] impacts how undergraduate nursing student perceive global health.” In addition, Professor Groh has participated in several freshmen orientation Prologue and Transition programs both on and off campus, alternative spring break traveling to Mississippi after hurricane Katrina, and volunteered at Campus Kitchen which provides meals for homeless.
Professor Groh brought honor to Detroit Mercy not only through research and writing but also through professional activities and honors awarded. Professionally, Professor Groh served on the Editorial Board for the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association; as a board member of Freedom House, Sky Foundation, Detroit Central City Community Mental Health, and Michigan Chapter of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association; Planning Committees of Michigan Chapter of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, ISPN Annual Conference; Marketing and Development Task Force, ISPN; Mental Health Task Force, National Nursing Centers Consortium; was a Manuscript Review for Journal of American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Perspective in Psychiatric Care, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Uninsured, Ethnicity and Health, Journal of Family Theory and Review, Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, and Journal of American Psychiatric Nurses Association; was an Abstract Reviewer for International Society of Psychiatric Nurses, International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Conference, and Midwest Nursing Research Society. Professor Groh served on the medical committee of the Black Leadership Commission on AIDS of Detroit; program committee for Women Arise; was a Commissioner, Health Advisory Commission Detroit Health Department; and was on the Human Services Committee for the Coalition on Temporary Shelter.
Distinguished Professor, the highest honor given by the university to a full-time professor, was award to Professor Groh in 2015. This academic title will carry with Professor Groh even after retirement. Upon the recommendation of a faculty committee three years earlier, Professor Groh was recognized for her teaching and scholarship when given the annual senior faculty member’s distinguished faculty award. Outside of the university Professor Groh received the Jeanette Chamberlain Psychiatric Leadership Award, ISPN (2017); the Education and Research Nightingale Award, Oakland University (2015); Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (2013); Alpha Sigma Nu, Book Award (2012); Visiting Professor to Dublin and Belfast, Irish Institute, Boston College (2011); Fulbright Lecture Award, Iceland (2004); National Research Service Award, Nurse Research Fellowship, Division of Nursing, University of Michigan (1989-1992); Rackham Fellowship, Doctoral Studies, University of Michigan (1988-1989( U.S. Federal Nurse Traineeship, Wayne State University (1981-1983), and Sigma theta Tau, National Honor Society in Nursing (1978 – present).
During the Professor Emerita application process, Professor Groh noted “that I have informed and enhanced my teaching through an extensive record of research, clinical practice and professional involvement with women’s mental health issues and underserved populations, along with a sustained and consistent record of securing external funding. The impact of these activities has resulted in advancing nurse education, increasing mental health access and treatment for underserved populations, with increased understanding of their unique challenges. The integration of efforts reflects my commitment to the mission, vision, and values of Detroit Mercy.”
Professor Groh earned a Diploma in Nursing (1972) from Henry Ford Hospital School of Nursing, Detroit, Michigan; a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (1978) and Master of Science in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (1983) from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (1994) from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Professor Groh holds a Michigan Nursing License (1972-present), Nurse Practitioner Specialty Certification (1993 to present), and A.N.A. Certification as Clinical Specialist in Adult Psychiatric and Mental Health (1986 to present). Professor Groh maintains membership in American Nurses Association, American Academy of Nursing, National League of Nursing, American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners, International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses, and Sigma Thea Tau, National Honor Society in Nursing.
The nomination of Professor Groh for Professor Emerita was approved and conferred by Dr. Antoine M. Garibaldi, President of University of Detroit Mercy on August 16, 2018.