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PHILIPPI -- The Dr. Robert V. Digman Lecture Series is a long-standing tradition of homecoming at Alderson Broaddus University. Pamela Heneise Cone, PhD, MSN, BSN, RN, CNS, PHN and a 1976 graduate of Alderson Broaddus University will speak on Thursday, Sept. 29 at 1 p.m. in the Crim Dining Hall as the second installment of the Dr. Robert V. Digman Lecture Series, with a lecture entitled, "Spiritual Care in Nursing."
Dr. Pamela H. Cone was born and raised in Haiti by missionary parents and has been a nurse for 47 years and a nurse educator for 31 years. After graduating with a BSN from Alderson-Broaddus College in 1974, she worked in several staff nurse positions before earning her MSN from Azusa Pacific University with a thesis on Connecting: A Basic Social Process of Spiritual Care in 1994.
Dr. Cone has taught courses in theory, research, international health, spirituality and health, and writing with bachelor's, master's, and doctoral students at Azusa Pacific University and has served as an expert in Grounded Theory research for doctoral students since 2006. Her 2006 Ph.D. dissertation from the University of California-San Francisco was Reconnecting: A Grounded Theory Study among Formerly Homeless Mothers.
A Fulbright Scholar in Norway from 2008-2009, Dr. Cone worked collaboratively with Norwegian Nurse Researcher Dr. Tove Giske to develop several grounded theories from their spirituality research (three substantive theories and one formal theory). She was also awarded the Beverly Hardcastle Stanford research grant from APU in 2014 for a semester of research in Norway.
In collaboration with the EPICC scholars, Dr. Cone and colleagues' research team on Spiritual Care Education and Practice (SEP) were awarded a European Erasmus grant and received a four-year Excellence in Research award from VID Specialized University in Norway for research in spiritual care education and practice covering 2020 through 2023, which funds the SEP Team's current work. Together, Drs. Cone and Giske have edited two books and authored two others (one in 2019 and one in press with Wiley), published 12 articles on spirituality and spiritual care as well as presented their spiritual care education and practice work at conference.
The Dr. Robert V. Digman Lecture Series honors Dr. Digman for his outstanding service to Alderson Broaddus University. He devoted his life to the institution, its students. The lecture series highlights outstanding alumni in their various fields of work and personal accomplishments.