Assistant Professor
Duquesne University Nursing school
Angela Karakachian PhD, RN
Dr. Angela Karakachian received her BSN in Nursing from Saint Joseph University in Beirut-Lebanon. She received her Master’s degree in nursing education from the University of Phoenix, and her PhD in nursing from Duquesne University.
Dr. Karakachian joined the School of Nursing at Duquesne in 2014, where she serves as an assistant professor in the undergraduate program. Her research interests include the care for victims of child maltreatment, nurses’ moral distress, nurses’ burnout, and intention to leave.
Dr. Karakachian has applied and received several internal and external grants to conduct research and advance the nursing knowledge in one of the most stressful aspects of nursing care: the care of victims of child abuse. Her newest projects are focused on developing an intervention to help nurses and nursing students to identify and respond to child maltreatment. To conduct these projects, she received the Leach Award from Duquesne University and the Sigma Theta Tau International, the Joan K. Stout, RN Research Grant.
Dr. Karakachian is an active member in several professional organizations including the International Association of Forensic Nurses, the Society of Pediatric Nursing, and the Sigma Epsilon Phi Chapter (serving as vice president). She serves as a peer reviewer for several professional nursing journals and is an active member of her own community.
