Georgene eakes nursing theorist

Georgene gaskill eakes

Georgene Gaskill Eakes was born in New Bern, North Carolina. She received a Diploma in Nursing from Watts Hospital School of Nursing in Durham, North Carolina, in 1966, and she graduated Summa Cum Laude from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University with a baccalaureate in nursing in 1977.

Georgene gaskill eakes

Georgene gaskill eakes

Georgene gaskill eakes biography

Theory of chronic sorrow in nursing

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The theory explains the cycle of chronic sorrow experienced through trigger events and management methods to cope with the ongoing feelings of loss.

Eakes completed her M.S.N. in 1980 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her Ed.D. in 1988 at North Carolina State University. Eakes received a federal traineeship for graduate study at the master’s level and a graduate fellowship from the North Carolina League for Nursing for her doctoral studies.

She was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau International in 1979 and Phi Kappa Phi in 1988.

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