Joyce M. Black, PhD, RN

Joyce M. Black, PhD, RN is an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska.  She teaches junior and senior level nursing students in medical-surgical and intensive care nursing and supervises research activities of graduate students. Her current funded research is in the area of deep tissue injury and intertriginous dermatitis. Dr. Black has had years of clinical experience as a medical surgical nurse at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Rochester Minnesota, affiliated with the Mayo Clinic. Her clinical practice has been in orthopedics, critical care, burn care, respiratory diseases, wound care and plastic surgery. She is certified by the American Society of Plastic Surgical Nurses and the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses. Dr Black is also a Fellow with the American Practitioners in Wound Care Academy. She serves as lead editor of Medical Surgical Nursing, a textbook for undergraduate nursing students. She is the President of the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel.  Dr Black served as the co-chair of the task force to define deep tissue injury and the chair of the task force to update the definitions of the stages of pressure ulcers.