SC BENEDICT, DSN, FAAN

-- Medical Editor, Author, Writer, Reviewer --
Medical manuscripts, regulatory submissions, medical communications, clinical protocols,
clinical study reports, publications, research articles, slides,
training, websites, white papers

Dr. Benedict is a nursing research and writing consultant for theses, dissertations, capstone projects,
And grant applications. subject Expertise includes holocaust-Genocide studies,
HIV/AIDS/Africa, and public health policies.

"Dr. Benedict is OUTSTANDING! She is a joy! Easy to work with, very personable, and extremely knowledgeable and helpful!!" ~ PhD student, University of Oklahoma (on file with network coordinator)

 

Dr. Benedict has been a professor of nursing for over 25 years. She was a Fulbright Scholar to the University of Iceland and a Visiting Professor at the University of Botswana. She has taught research methods courses at the master’s degree and PhD level at Columbia University [New York], the University of Alabama [Huntsville], the University of Iceland, the Medical University of South Carolina, and the University of Botswana [Africa] and has served as chairperson or member of over 30 thesis and dissertation committees at universities in the US, Scotland, and the Republic of South Africa.

Dr. Benedict’s research has been funded by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Nursing Research of the US National Institutes of Health, the Greenwall Foundation, and the University of Botswana. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Medical Ethics and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC and has done numerous scholarly presentations in the US, Europe, Africa, and Israel.

Her experience has involved extensive guidance of graduate students and includes written critiques of more than 400 research proposals. She has worked with numerous students to delineate research problems, select appropriate research designs and sampling plans, and organize the findings into implications and conclusions. Although the majority of her work has been with graduate students in nursing, she has also worked with doctoral students in health policy, public health, history, and education.

In addition to degree completion, Dr. Benedict’s former students in the US, Europe, and Africa have published in peer-reviewed journals and have made presentations at national and international conferences.  Dr. Benedict has guided many of these efforts.

Selected articles:
An ethics of testimony: Prisoner nurses at Auschwitz
Duty and "euthanasia": The nurses of Meseritz--Obrawalde
Maria Stromberger: A nurse in the resistance in Auschwitz
Nurses and the sterilization experiments of Auschwitz: A postmodernist perspective

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HONORS AND AWARDS

1991-Present    Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
2005 Nurse of the Year, MUSC College of Nursing, Charleston Organization of Nurse Executives
2004 Palmetto Gold:  Top 100 Nurses in SC
2003 Visiting Professor, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
2003 Alumni Achievement Award, University of Alabama in Huntsville
2002 (Deferred) Lady Davis Fellowship for Visiting Professorship, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
1997-1999 Research Fellow, Medical Ethics and the Holocaust, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Research Institute, Washington, DC
1979- Sigma Theta Tau, International Honor Society for Nursing

GRANTS AWARDED

The use of traditional medicine for symptom management of HIV/AIDS.  M. Magowe, PI and   S. Benedict, Co-investigator.  University of Botswana, funded 50,000 BWP, March 2009.          
Nurses and ethical dilemmas.  S. Benedict, PI.  National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research (K01), funded ~$272,000, August 2005-July 2008.
Nurses and research ethics.  S. Benedict, PI.  Greenwall Foundation, funded ~$42,000, July 2005 - 2007.
Breast cancer decision-making among female veterans.  S. Benedict, PI.  MUSC College of Nursing, funded $500, April 2003.
Nurses and the Nazi euthanasia program.  S. Benedict, PI. National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine (R01), funded $107,000, December 1998-2002.
The Nurses of Ravensbrück: A Historical Study.  S. Benedict, PI.  University Research Committee, funded $14,890, November 2000.
Nurses and the Nazi euthanasia program.  Travel grant funded by the Philadelphia Center for the Holocaust, $500, 1999.
Breast Cancer Treatment Choices, $4,100 Race for the Cure, (S. Benedict, PI), funded September 1996.
Health Care Needs and Resources for people with AIDS. Funded by South Carolina Health and Human Services Finance Commission, $174,000, October 1994-September 1995, (S. Benedict, PI).
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program (L. Bellig, Project Director). Funded by Division of Nursing, DHHS, $621,685, June 1994.
Professional Nurse Traineeship Program. Funded by DHHS, $88,000, June, 1994, (S. Benedict, Program Director).
Juxtaposition of Ethics in Nursing Practice: Nursing during the Nazi era. Funded by Amgen Foundation, March 1994, $2,400, (S. Benedict, Principal Investigator).
Effect of Mother's Breast Cancer on Daughters' Breast Cancer Detection Practices. Travel grant to India funded by American Cancer Society/Oncology Nursing Foundation, $1200, 1994, (S. Benedict, Principal Investigator).
Professional Nurse Traineeships Program. Funded by Department of Heath and Human  Services, $109,053, April, 1993, (S. Benedict, Program Director).
Subspecialization in HIV/AIDS Nursing.  Funded by DHHS, Division of Nursing, August, 1992, $326,000,  (S. Benedict, Project Director).
Professional Nurse Traineeships Program.  Funded by Department of Health and Human Services for $74,559, April, 1992, (S. Benedict, Program Director).
The Effect of Benign Breast Biopsy on Subsequent Breast Cancer Detection Practices.  Funded by Oncology Nursing Society, April, 1992, $5,000, (S. Benedict, Principal Investigator).
Breast Biopsy and Cancer Detection Practices. Funded by MUSC Institutional Grants, March, 1992, $2010, (S. Benedict, Principal Investigator).
A Comparison of Teaching Strategies for Nursing Content Related to AIDS and HIV Infection.  Funded by the competitive faculty grant program, The University of Alabama in Huntsville,  1989 ($2,000), (S. Benedict, Principal Investigator).
The Use of Complementary Therapies by People with AIDS, HIV Positive Individuals, and the Worried Well.  Funded by Sigma Theta Tau, Beta Phi Chapter, 1988, $500.00, (S. Benedict, Principal Investigator).
AIDS: The Nursing Research Agenda.  Funded by the competitive faculty grant program, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 1988, $2,000, (S. Benedict, Principal Investigator).                                    
The Influence of the Telephone Electrocardiogram Transmitter on the Anxiety Levels of Patients with Permanently Implanted Cardiac Pacemakers.  Funded by Medtronic, Inc., $7,500, (S. Benedict, Principal Investigator).

PROJECT GRANTS AWARDED
First aid course for rural India.  S. Benedict, Wheat Ridge Ministries, $1,000, January 2005.
Relief work in rural India.  S. Benedict, Catholic Diocese of Charleston, SC, $2,000, January 2005.
Innovative Alternatives for Women.  S. Benedict, Department of Justice, $100,000, April 2004.
First aid course for rural India.  S. Benedict, Wheat Ridge Ministries, $1000, January 2004
First aid kits for rural India.  S. Benedict, Zee Medical Suppy, $2000, January 2004.

PUBLICATIONS

Articles/Peer Reviewed
Benedict, S. and Georges, J. (2009)  The Nazi euthanasia program.  Advances in Nursing Science, in press.
Benedict, S., O’Donnell, A., Shields, L.          (2009).  Nurses and the Children’s “Euthanasia     Program. Pediatric Nursing, in press.
Georges, J. and Benedict, S. (2008).  Nursing Gaze of the Eastern Front in World War II.  Advances in Nursing Science, 31(2), 139-152.
Benedict, S. and Couchle, T. (2008).  The Nazi “Euthanasia” Program:  One Physician’s Experience.  History of Psychiatry, 19(1),68-76.
Benedict, S. and Caplan, A.  (2007).  Duty and “Euthanasia”:  The Nurses of Meseritz-Obrawalde.  Nursing Ethics, 14(6), 782-794.
Benedict, S. and Georges, J. (2006).  Nurses and the Sterilization Experiments of Auschwitz: A Postmodernist Perspective.  Nursing Inquiry, 13(4), 277-288.
Georges, J. and Benedict S. (2006).  An Ethics of Testimony:  Prisoner Nurses at Auschwitz. Advances in Nursing Science, 29 (2): 161-169.
Benedict, S.  (2006).  Maria Stromberger: A Nurse in the Resistance in Auschwitz.  Nursing History Review, 14, 189-202.
Benedict, S. (2006).  Teaching First Aid to the Dalits in Rural India.  Reflections, Sigma Theta Tau.
Benedict, S. (2003).  The Nadir of Nursing: The Nurses of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp.  Nursing History Review, 11, 129-146.
Benedict, S. (2003).  Killing While Caring: The Nurses of Hadamar.  Issues in Mental Health Nursing, January 2003.
Benedict, S., Cole, D., Baron, L., and Baron, P. (2001).  Factors Influencing the Choice Between Mastectomy and Lumpectomy. Journal of Surgical Oncology, 76(1), 6-12.
Benedict, S. and Kuhla, J. (1999).  Nurses’ participation in the “euthanasia” programs of Nazi Germany.  Western Journal of Nursing Research, 21(2), April 1999, 246-263.

Additional publications on request

                       
Books/Chapters in books
Benedict, S. and Weinberger, R. (2008).  The medical experiments of Auschwitz Block 10. The Auschwitz Foundation, Brussels. 
Benedict, S. and Weinberger, R. (2008).  Inmate doctors and Nurses in Auschwitz.  In Vationalsozialistische Medizin in Konzentrationslagern: Versuche am Menschen in Auschwitz und Mauthausen, edited by Gerhard Botz and Ruth Weinberger.  University of Vienna Press.
O’Donnell, A., Benedict, S., Kuhla, J., and Shields, L.  (2008).  Nursing During National Socialism.  Torture and Terror.  University of Hull Law Press, UK.
Benedict, S. (2003).  Caring While Killing: Nursing in the “Euthanasia” Centers.  In Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust. Edited by Myrna Goldenberg and Elizabeth Baer.  Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 95-110.
Benedict, S. (1996).  Access and Barriers to Health Care for HIV+ Individuals. South Carolina Health and Human Services Finance Commission.
Williams, R. and Benedict, S., (1994), HIV/AIDS Nursing Education: Policy, Curricula and Research.  In Innovations in AIDS Educations and Policy, Edited by J. Johnson and W. Jones.
Benedict, S. (1992).  Dysfunctions of the Leukocytes.  In L. Burrell (Ed.) Adult Nursing,  East Norwalk, Ct:  Appleton and Lange Publishers, January, 1992.
Gueldner, S. and Benedict, S.  (1992).  Hematologic System:  Anatomy, Physiology, and Overview of Pathophysiology.  In L. Burrell (Ed.) Adult Nursing.  East Norwalk, Ct: Appleton and Lange Publishers. 

PRESENTATIONS (on request)

REVIEW BOARDS
2006-Present   Reviewer, Nursing History Review
2000-Present   Review Panel, International Nursing Review
1992-Present   Review Panel, Nursing Outlook
1999-Present   History of Nursing Expert Panel, American Academy of Nursing

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FEEDBACK

“Dr. Benedict is an *outstanding* consultant!  She was easy to work with and helped keep me focused and well-prepared for my dissertation.  Susan was able to identify weaknesses in my research and provided suggestions of things I could do to make my dissertation stronger.  She was also able to generate questions that might be asked by my committee to help me prepare fully for the defense.  Without any question, this was a smart investment.” (Contact information on request) 

“Great job! Thanks for all your help.” - P. Cotter, American Society for Testing and Materials

“Dr. Benedict has been a delight! She is professional, thorough, understanding and really pays attention to your needs! I appreciate her guidance especially through the obstacles. She’s a motivating force who navigates her clients through the murky waters quite effortlessly. She makes herself readily available and never makes you feel slighted.” - Anna Rojas, Master’s Degree, Walden University

“Your work on chapter 1 is superb. I really appreciate your input.” (On file with network coordinator)

“Dr. Benedict was absolutely superb in her editing, recommendations, consulting on my writing ideas, and made suggestions that helps me to solidify my chapters 1 & 2. Her recommendations were well thought-out and I incorporated them into the final draft. I strongly recommend her services to any doctoral student who is struggling to pull the proposal together for ARB review and approval.” - Connie Ekkens, doctoral student, University of Phoenix

"The network was helpful and response time was excellent. Quality consultants were referred. Dr. Benedict is OUTSTANDING! We are not finished, but we are making excellent progress. She is a joy! Easy to work with, very personable, and extremely knowledgeable and helpful!!" ~ PhD student, University of Oklahoma (on file with network coordinator)