Kathleen Sellers graduated from Niagara University, Summa Cum Laude. She received her MSN, from the Catholic University of America with a role focus as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Oncology and Administration. Her PhD in nursing is from Adelphi University with the title of her dissertation being "The Meaning of Autonomous Nursing Practice to the Staff Nurse Practicing in a Shared Governance Environment: A Hermeneutic Analysis."

Over her forty year career she has practiced as a surgical staff nurse, a nurse manager, Director of St. Peter's Hospice, Albany, NY; the first oncology specialist at Albany Medical Center where she established the first standards of care for chemotherapy administration in the 1980s, Director of Medical and Mental Health Nursing, Director of Nursing, Bassett Healthcare where she implemented shared governance as a structure to facilitate professional nursing practice.

Upon completion of her PhD in 1996, she began her academic career at SUNYIT. Her program of research is focused on promoting professional nursing practice amongst nurses practicing in acute care. She presents regularly and has over 20 publications, the majority as primary author. Her most notable being "The Prevalence of Horizontal Violence Amongst Registered Nurses Practicing in New York State." Her current research endeavors include: the Nursing Resilience, Satisfaction and Engagement (NURSE's) Study sponsored by Bassett Healthcare and Measuring the Degree of Engagement in Shared Governance, also sponsored by Bassett Healthcare. 

While at SUNYIT/SUNY Polytechnic Institute, she was the coordinator of the graduate program in Nursing Administration, received the Chancellor's Award for Teaching and served as Interim Dean of the School of Nursing as a tenured Associate Professor. In 2010, she was recruited to be the Chair of the Department of Nursing as a tenured full professor at Alfred State College. There she stabilized the Department, implemented Alfred State's RN/BS online program and oversaw preparations which led to that program's first Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) accreditation.

In 2013, she returned to SUNY Polytechnic as an untenured Associate Professor to teach, once again, at the graduate level and to assist in the development of the infrastructure that would move this new organization towards becoming a research university. 

 

Research

• Program of research focuses on professional practice in acute care organizations. 
• Currently involved in a descriptive survey study determining the leadership styles of members of the NY Organization of Nurse Executives and Leaders (NYONEL) using the Mind Garden Tool.
• Immediate past research focused on horizontal violence and civility in practice - See publications.

Publications 

Sellers, K. & Millenbach, L., Zittle, B., Murray, C.. (2014). Influence of RN BS Education on Nursing Practice: Outcomes Create a Moral Imperative for Nurse Leaders. Nurse Leader.

Harrington, A., Smith, C., Parker, K., Sellers, K. Millenbach, L.. (In press).Creating a Nurse-Led Culture to  Minimize Horizontal Violence in the Acute Care Setting: A Multi-Interventional Approach. The Journal of  Nursing Administration. 

Myers, G., Cote’- Arsenault, D., Worrall, P., Rolland, R., Deppoliti, D., Duxbury, E., Stoecker,M., Sellers, K. (In press). A Cross-Hospital Exploration of Nurses’ Experience with Horizontal Violence. American Journal of  Nursing. 

Sellers, K. & McCrea, K. Evidence-based Practice. In Patricia Kelly (Ed.), (2013). Introduction to Quality and Safety Education for Nurses Core Competencies. NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Sellers, K., Millenbach, L., Ward, K. (2012). The Degree of Horizontal Violence in New York State Registered Nurses. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 42 (10), 483-487.

Sellers, K. Organization of Patient Care. In Patricia Kelly-Heidenthal (Ed.), (2011). Nursing leadership and management (3^rd Ed.). Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers. 

Sellers, K Strategic Planning. In Patricia Kelly-Heidenthal (Ed.), (2011). Nursing leadership and anagement (3^rd Ed.). Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers.

Bankert, E., Joseph, J., Sellers, K; (2010).Global Initiatives for Service-Based Learning among Students andFaculty.  Giving Through Teaching: How Nurse Educators Are Changing The World. National League for Nursing. 

Sellers, K., Millenbach, L., Kovach, N. & Klimek-Yingling, J., (2010). Prevalence ofHorizontal Violence in New York State Registered Nurses. The Journal of the New York State Nurse. Fall/Winter 2009-2010, 40, 20-25.

Russo, T., Dennison, B., Sellers, K., Sellers, C., Baker, I., & Sherwood, N. (2009). A community intervention  to promote fitness by age 5. Manuscript submitted for publication to The Journal of Rural Health 1/2009. 

Sellers, K. (2007). Organization of Patient Care. In Patricia Kelly-Heidenthal (Ed.)Nursing leadership and management (2^nd Ed.). Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers. 

Baker, I., Dennison, B., Boyer, P., Sellers, K., Russo, T., & Sherwood, N. (2007). Decreasing children’s television viewing: An asset-based community intervention. Preventive Medicine. 1, 135-141. 

 Sellers, K. (2006). Planning for health promotion in preschool child care settings: Focusthe manuscript for Pediatrics] 

Sellers, K., Russo, T., Baker, I., & Dennison, B. (2005). The role of childcare professionals in                       the prevention of child overweight. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 3,(3)  227-242. 

Sellers, K. (2005). Contributer In Patricia Kelly-Heidenthal & Maureen T. Marthaler.Delegation of Nursing Care. Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers. 

Sellers, K. (2003). First line patient care management. In Patricia Kelly-Heidenthal (Ed.) Essentials of Nursing  Management. Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers. 

Sellers, K. (2002). First line patient care management. In Patricia Kelly-Heidenthal (Ed.)Nursing leadership and management (pp. 280-299). Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers. 

Sellers, K., Bauer, M., Jenkins, P., & Hargrove, B. (2000). Asthma disease management programs improve clinical and economic outcomes, MEDSURG Nursing, 9(4), 201-203.

Bauer, M., & Sellers, K. (2000, August). Effects of asthma education interventions on clinical utililization outcomes. Paper presented at CHEST Conference, San Francisco, CA.. 

Sellers, K. (1996). The meaning of autonomous nursing practice to staff nurses in a shared     governance organization – A hermeneutic inquiry. Doctoral dissertation, Adelphi University, New York.

Sellers, K. (1994). Shared governance as viewed through the self-in-relation theory [Abstract}. Proceedings on  the Fifth Annual Critical and Feminist Perspectives in Nursing Conference. Seattle, WA. 

Sellers, K. (1989).  Standards of practice for chemotherapy administration: Achieving a community consensus. Proceedings of the Oncology Nursing Society Fourteenth Annual Congress, 16 (3). 

Sellers, K. (1986). The comparison of two oral care protocols on the oral mucosa of patients receiving stomatotoxic chemotherapy. Proceedings of the Oncology Nursing Society Eleventh Annual Congress, 13(2),         76.