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• Rural nurse recruitment and retention
• Social determinants of health
• Rural workplace violence and incivility
• Palliative care
• Advance care planning

College of Nursing Outstanding Researcher (2024)

DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurse Educators (2024)

1. RETAIN-RNs: Partnering to Expand and Retain South Dakota's Nursing Workforce in Acute and Long-Term Care Settings. Health Resources and Services Administration, September 2025-September 2029, $4,000,000. Role: Education Project Director.
2. SPARC: Improving Rural Well-being and Health by Advancing Research on Building Trust. ����Ӱ��, July 1, 2025-June 30, 2026, $3,500. Role: Co-Principal Investigator.
3. Mediating Role of Resilience on Nurses Perceived Workplace Incivility. Sigma Theta Tau, Phi Chapter, June 1, 2024-May 31, 2025, $500. Role: Co-Principal Investigator.
4. PREPARE-RNs: Partnering to Address the Critical Nursing Shortage in South Dakota. Health Resources and Services Administration, September 2022-September 2025, $1,050,000. Role: Education Project Director.
5. NURS 119 Response to Changing College Student Behaviors. Margaret and Ron Hegge Nursing Faculty Excellence Endowment, December 2022-August 2023, $9,700. Role: Principal Investigator.
6. Upper Midwest Palliative Care Education Network. Health Resources and Services Administration, July 2020-June 2023, $900,000. Role: Subject Matter Expert.
7. Rural Emergency Department Nurses Experiences with Workplace Violence, Sigma Theta Tau, Phi Chapter, August 2021-December 2022, $500. Role: Principal Investigator.
8. Advance Care Planning in South Dakota Women Who Farm and Ranch, Sigma Theta Tau, Phi Chapter, August 2019-July 2020, $500. Role: Principal Investigator.

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

1. Garren-Grubbs, T., Brown, R. and Emery, K. (in press). Relationship among nursing workplace incivility, resilience and health care environment in rural and urban settings. Journal of Nursing Administration.
2. Mollman, S., Garren-Grubbs, T., Pravecek, B., Boettner, S. and Berke, C. (in press). Faculty and student preparedness for primary palliative care: A comparative study. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing.
3. Garren-Grubbs, T. and Hendrickx, L. (2023). . Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 23(2). DOI: 10.14574/ojrnhc.v23i2.746.
4. Perrenoud, M., Mollman, S., Garren-Grubbs, T., Berke, C. and Inch, D. (2023). . Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 23(2). DOI: 10.14574/ojrnhc.v23i2.750.
5. Garren-Grubbs, T., Letizia, M. and Minton, M. (2020). . Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 20(2). DOI: 10.14574/ojrnhc.v20i2.632.

Podium Presentations:

1. Garren-Grubbs, T., Brown, R. and Emery, K. (March 20, 2025). Mediating role of resilience on nurses perceived workplace incivility [podium presentation]. Sigma Phi Chapter Research Day. Brookings, South Dakota.
2. Garren-Grubbs, T., Wynn, S. and Deichstetter, N. (May 29, 2025). Bridging the gap: Training nursing students to tackle health challenges and workforce shortages in rural and underserved areas [podium presentation]. International Rural Nurse Organization Conference, Arlington, Texas.
3. Garren-Grubbs, T. and Pfeffer, K., (Oct. 22, 2024). "Don't knock it until you try it." Development of a rural training track for nursing students [podium presentation]. Transforming ����Ӱ�� and Rural Health Care 2024 Conference, Rochester, Minnesota.
4. Garren-Grubbs, T. and Pfeffer, K. (April 19, 2024). “Rural nursing now has my heart.” Preparing prelicensure nursing students for rural practice [podium presentation]. 35th Nursing Research Symposium at Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
5. Garren-Grubbs, T. and Pfeffer, K. (Oct. 27, 2023). “Don’t knock it until you try it”: Preparing prelicensure nursing students for rural practice [podium presentation]. Avera Nursing EBP and Research Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
6. Garren-Grubbs, T. and Hendrickx, L. (July 27, 2023). Rural emergency department nurses’ experiences with workplace violence [podium presentation]. International Rural Nursing Conference, Johnson City, Tennessee.
7. Pravecek, B., Garren-Grubbs, T. and Mollman, S. (March 31, 2023). Development of a statewide network: Innovatively improving access to palliative care services in South Dakota [podium presentation]. 47th annual Midwest Nursing Research Society Conference, Des Moines, Iowa.
8. Garren-Grubbs, T. and Hendrickx, L. (March 24, 2023). Rural emergency department nurses’ experiences with workplace violence: A pilot study [podium presentation]. 34th Nursing Research Symposium, Brookings, South Dakota.
9. Berke, C., Garren-Grubbs, T., Mollman, S. and Pravecek, B. (Oct. 28, 2022). Improving palliative care access through primary palliative care education [podium presentation]. Avera Nursing EBP and Research Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
10. Garren-Grubbs, T., Huff, K., Pravecek, B. and Stewart, C. (April 22, 2022). South Dakota Palliative Care Network: Development and dissemination of palliative care education for undergraduate and graduate nursing students across the plains [podium presentation]. 33rd annual Sigma Nursing Research Symposium.
11. Garren-Grubbs, T. Letizia, M. and Minton, M. (April 16, 2021). PREPARE-ing South Dakota farm and ranch women for advance care planning [podium presentation]. 32nd Nursing Research Symposium hosted by the Phi and Zeta Zeta Chapters of Sigma Theta Tau.

Poster Presentations

1. Monson, A. and Garren-Grubbs, T. (March 20, 2025). The effects of school-based health promotion interventions: A literature review [poster presentation]. Sigma Phi Chapter Research Day.
2. Garren-Grubbs, T., Huff, K., Pravecek, B. and Stewart, C. (April 21, 2022). South Dakota Palliative Care Network: Development and dissemination of palliative education for undergraduate and graduate nursing students across the plains [poster presentation]. Mount Marty University Research Day.
3. Garren-Grubbs, T. and Schievelbein, D. (Feb. 18, 2022). Preparing tomorrow’s nurse leaders: Experiential learning opportunities with practice partners [poster presentation]. NurseThink for Nurse Educators – Next Gen Learning: Fundamentals, NCLEX and Beyond.
4. Garren-Grubbs, T. Letizia, M. and Minton, M. (March 19, 2021). PREPARE-ing South Dakota farm and ranch women for advance care planning [poster presentation]. Ruth K. Palmer Symposium Maywood, Illinois.
5. Garren-Grubbs, T. (Feb. 2021). PREPARE-ing South Dakota farm and ranch women for advance care planning [poster presentation]. 2021 Clinical Nurse Leader Summit.

Invited Speaker

1. Garren-Grubbs, T. (March 25, 2025). The experiences of rural emergency department nurses with workplace violence. ����Ӱ�� School of Psychology, Sociology and Rural Studies Colloquium Series.
2. Mollman, S., Pravecek, B. and Garren-Grubbs, T. (April 11, 2024). Meeting the new essentials: Collaborative development and integration of primary palliative care at four universities. ELNEC Virtual Lunch and Learn to Support Palliative Care Education, Creighton University College of Nursing (virtual presentation).
3. Garren-Grubbs, T. and Hendrickx, L. (Feb. 13, 2024). Workplace violence in rural emergency departments. UTA College of Nursing and Health Innovation Professional Development Conference, Arlington, Texas (virtual presentation).
4. Mollman, S., Garren-Grubbs, T. and Hendrickx, L. (Nov. 14, 2023). How can nursing research impact the health and well-being of South Dakota and beyond [podium presentation]. Sanford Improvement Symposium, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Extension Presentations and Publications

1. Brown, L. and Garren-Grubbs, T. (2021). SDSU Extension, College of Nursing encourage timely talks this holiday season. SDSU Extension.
2. Brown, L. and Garren-Grubbs, T. (2021). ����Ӱ�� promotes advance care planning ahead of National Health Care Decisions Day. SDSU Extension.
3. Brown, L. and Garren-Grubbs, T. (2019, updated 2021). Advance care planning for rural families. SDSU Extension.