Education
Ph.D., George Mason University
M.S.N., University of Virginia
B.S.N., Columbia University
B.A., Pennsylvania State University
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., George Mason University
M.S.N., University of Virginia
B.S.N., Columbia University
B.A., Pennsylvania State University
Nurse well-being (burnout, moral distress)
Organizational behavior (institutional betrayal, instituational courage)
Public health
Nursing administration
Norful, A. A., Brewer, K. C., Cahir, K. M., & Dierkes, A. M. (2024). Individual and organizational factors influcing well-being and burnout amongst healthcare assistants: A systematic review. International Journal of Nursing Science Studies Advances. Advance online publication.
Sessions, L. C., Kim, H. J., Brewer, K. C., El-Banna, M. M., & Farina, C. L. (2024). Intrinsic factors and psychological safety among nursing students during simulation-based learning – a correlational design. Simulation in Healthcare. Advance online publication.
Brewer, K. C., Dierkes, A. M., & Norful, A. A. (2024). Organizational trust breaches among nurses and aides: A qualitative study. Nursing Ethics. Advance online publication.
Weissinger, G. M., Swavely, D., Holtz, H., Brewer, K. C, Alderfer, M., Lynn, L., Yoder, A., Adil, T., Wasser, T., Cifra, D., & Rushton, C. (2024). Critical care nurses’ moral resilience, moral injury, institutional betrayal, and traumatic stress after COVID-19. American Journal of Critical Care, 33(2), 105-114.
Brewer, K. (2023). Institutional courage: An antidote to institutional betrayal and broken trust. Nurse Leader, 21(4), 449-454.
Brewer, K. C., Horning, M. A., Walker, M. S., & Ness, M. E. (2023). Analyzing the effects of family presence and visitation restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic among nurse leaders and non-nurse leaders. Journal of Nursing Administration, 53(3), 132-137.
Norful A. A., Brewer, K., Adler, M., & Dierkes, A. (2023). Initial psychometric properties of the provider-co-management index-RN to scale registered nurse-physician co-management: Implications for burnout, job satisfaction, and intention to leave current position. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 37(5), 797-806.
Brewer, K. C., Ziegler, H., Kurdian, S., & Nguyen, J. (2023). Relationships of individual and workplace characteristics with nurses' moral resilience. Nursing Ethics. Advance online publication.
Ceres, C. A., Brewer, K. C., & Agnew, J. (2023). The Good Jobs Initiative: Defining, measuring, and promoting high-quality U.S. jobs. Workplace Health and Safety, 71(9), 445.
Brewer, K. C. (2021). Institutional betrayal in nursing: A concept analysis. Nursing Ethics, 28(6), 1081-1089.