Education

PhD, Indiana University (School of Public Health)
MSN, Indiana University
BSN, Indiana University

Specialties and Expertise

Biography

Dr. Murray is a practicing psychiatric and mental health Clinical Nurse Specialist. She is ANCC-certified in child/adolescent but sees clients of all ages, specifically those with comorbid mental health and developmental disabilities. Dr. Murray teaches psychiatric nursing on the Bloomington campus. Dr. Murray's doctoral dissertation focused on sociocultural influences on women's health in rural Africa, which utilized the PEN-3 model and she has twice taken nursing students to The Kingdom of Eswatini in southern Africa for overseas study. Dr. Murray is interested in how culture and environment in all settings affects healthcare decision-making. Her educational interests are in the processes by which nursing students transform from lay person to professional across the undergraduate program.

External Funding

3/1/2016-5/31/2016. "Building Bridges: Experiential Learning Through an Interdisciplinary Disaster Simulation." (Program Director/PI). Indiana Campus Compact, $2,250.

Publications

Murray, B. A. (2022). Cultural factors in women’s health in Eswatini: The PEN3 model. In Health, Culture, and Place: From the Tree to the Forest (C.O. Airhihenbuwa & J. I. Iwelunmor, Eds.). U-RISE, LLC.

Judge, D. S., Murray, B. A., & Morris, T. (2019). Interprofessional education: A disaster response simulation activity for military medics, nursing, and paramedic sciences. Nurse Education in Practice, 39, 67-72.

Judge, D. S., & Murray, B. A. (2017). Student and faculty transition to a new online learning management system. Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 12, 277-280. 

Murray, B. (2017). Social and cultural factors in women's health in rural Africa. International Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, 4(5), 17-23. http://dx.doi.org/10.22259/ijrhss.0405003