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Dr. Reishtein earned a BA in biology at the University of Denver, BS in nursing at Wilkes University, MS in critical care nursing at Columbia University, and a PhD in nursing theory development and testing at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her clinical experience is primarily critical care, and she has worked in telemetry, medical, surgical, and coronary care units. She has taught nursing for more than nine years, serving as faculty at Luzerne County Community College and Wilkes University, and has recently completed a post doctoral fellowship in sleep and respiratory neurobiology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Her research interests center on the chronically ill population and on sleep. Currently, she is studying the relationship between sleep and neurobehavioral function in people with chronic lung disease (emphysema and chronic bronchitis). This study is being funded by the Lucille Lukens award from the American Nurses Foundation |
