Chair of Graduate Affairs
Areas of Interest: Clinical nurse specialist education; compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue; healthy work environments; burn, trauma, and neurologic critical care; nursing workforce
Office:WEGNUR 152
Phone:(585) 385-8127
Tara Sacco
Certifications:

Acute Care Clinical Nurse Specialist - Adult Gerontology
Clinical Care Registered Nurse
Registered Nurse

Education:

Ph.D., Nursing, Villanova University
M.S., Leadership of Health Care Systems, University of Rochester
Post Master’s Certificate in Advanced Practice Nursing, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ
B.S., Nursing, Hartwick College

Clinical Practice and Research Interests

Burn, trauma and neuroscience nursing; adult critical care nursing; organ donation and transplantation; nursing quality of life and healthy work environment; critical care outcomes measurement.

Specialty Areas

  • Adult/gero critical care with burn, trauma and neuromedicine focus
  • Adult/gero clinical nurse specialist

Publications

  • Sacco, T. L. & Delibert, S. A. (2018). Management of intracranial pressure part I: Pharmacologic interventions. Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 37, 120-129. doi: 10-1097/DCC.0000000000000293
  • Sacco, T. L. & Copel, L. (2018). Compassion satisfaction: A concept analysis in nursing. Nursing Forum 53, 76-83. doi: 10.1111/nuf12213
  • Sacco, T.L. & Lariccia, B. (2016). Interprofessional implementation of a pain/sedation guideline on a trauma intensive care unit. Journal of Trauma Nursing 23 (3) 156-164.
  • Sacco, T. L., Ciurzynksi, S. M., Harvey, M. E., & Ingersoll, G. L. (2015). Compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue among critical care nurses. Critical Care Nurse, 35, 32-42.
  • Sacco, T. L. (2015). . Letter to the Editor, Democrat & Chronicle.
  • Sacco, T. L. Traumatic Injury Due to Explosions and Blast Effects. In T. Veenema (2013) Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards (3rd Ed.)
  • Sacco, T. L., Stapleton, M. F., & Ingersoll, G. L. (2009). Support groups facilitated by families of former patients: Creating family-inclusive critical care units. Critical Care Nurse 29 (3), 36-45.
  • Sacco, T. Traumatic Injury Due to Explosions and Blast Effects. In T. Veenema (2007) Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards (2nd Ed.)

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