Marge Hegge, RN, EdD  

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Assistant Undergraduate Department Head for Accelerated Program                            

South Dakota State University

College of Nursing

Graduate Nursing Department

Box 2275, Rotunda Ln

SNF 331

Brookings, SD 57007

Phone: (605)688-5641

Fax: (605)688-5827
Email:margaret.hegge@sdstate.edu

Focus of Teaching

Ethics, Health Promotion/Disease Prevention, Professional Perspectives, Nursing Education and Curriculum Development, Assessment and Evaluation

Research 

Dr. Hegge’s research focuses on stressors and coping strategies of adults in major life transitions.  Her earlier work assessed power/load/margin in RN Upward Mobility students.  She studied elders who recently lost life partners to determine their coping strategies in adjusting to widowhood.  Her current research assesses major stressors and coping strategies of second degree students enrolled in SDSU’s accelerated nursing program.  She has also studied supply, demand and forecasting of the nursing workforce.  These concepts are representative of her research:  stress, life transitions, hardiness and coping strategies

Funding

DATES                        DETAILS

2005-2008       HRSA Division of Nursing Recruitment/Retention Project

                        A Statewide Partnership to Develop Nurse Educators $773,077

1995-2001       Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Colleagues in Caring Project

                        Collaboration with SD Board of Nursing and SDNA  $900,000

• Hegge, M.  Political Realities of Policy Change, Chapter in State Nursing   Workforce Initiatives: The Long View, Spring Publishing Company.  April 2005
• Vanderwoude, D., Hegge, M., Damgaard, G., Soholt, D., Bunkers, S.  Unfolding the Future:  Scenario Planning in Nursing.  Nursing Science Quarterly, 16(1).  January, 2003.
• Hegge, M. Powers, P., Hendrickx, L. and Vinson, J. (January/February 2002)  Competence, Continuing Education, and Computers.  The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing.  33(1), p24-32.
• Aparasu, R. and Hegge, M.  (Fall, 2001)  Autonomous Ambulatory Care by Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants in Office-based Settings.  Journal of Allied Health  30(3), pages 153-159.
• Hegge, M. and Fischer, C. (2000, June).  The Elderly Woman at Risk. American Journal of Nursing  (national referred publication, circulation 500,000) 100(6). 54-59
• Brendtro, M. and Hegge, M.  (March-April 2000) Nursing faculty: one generation from extinction?  Journal of Professional Nursing.  16(2), 97-103
• Hegge, M. and Fischer, C. (February 2000)  Grief Responses of Senior and   Elderly Widows:  Practice Implications.  Gerontologic Nursing.  26(2), 35