Nancy Dooley
Program Director and Professor
大象传媒 Faculty Since 2019
Nancy R. Dooley, Ph.D., OTR/L, CDP, FAOTA, has been an occupational therapist in Rhode Island for more than twenty-five years, working with people who have mental, physical, and cognitive impairments that impact their ability to do the things they need and want to do every day. She has varied clinical experience in hospital and community mental health, including work with families experiencing homelessness and supervision of students in skilled nursing facilities, assisted living settings, and adult day programs. Dooley spent seventeen years teaching and developing the first occupational therapy master鈥檚 degree program in Rhode Island. She then taught at a state university in Massachusetts before joining the faculty of 大象传媒鈥檚 new Occupational Therapy Doctorate program.
She earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Occupational Therapy from Quinnipiac College and her master鈥檚 and doctoral degrees in Occupational Therapy from New York University.
As a leader within the Rhode Island Occupational Therapy Association, she is part of an interdisciplinary group pursuing legislative efforts to improve access to non-pharmaceutical pain interventions for Rhode Islanders.
Education
- Ph.D., Occupational Therapy, New York University
- M.A., Advanced Occupational Therapy, New York University
- B.S., Occupational Therapy, Quinnipiac College
Scholarly Interests
Dooley鈥檚 research interests are the assessment of functional cognition and maximizing the quality of life for people with dementia and their family caregivers. One notable research project, 鈥淒evelopment of the Tile Tray Assessment鈥, is an assessment of functional cognition based on the Allen Diagnostic Module that is reusable and more user-friendly for people with fine motor skill deficits, with M. Brinson (2016).
Courses
- OTD8240: Occupational Therapy Practice I
- OTD7020: Foundations of Occupational Therapy
Professional Affiliations
Rhode Island Occupational Therapy Association
American Occupational Therapy Association
Therapy Missions
Providence Village
National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners
Publications
- Concurrent Validity of the Tile Tray Assessment: Functional Cognition and Fine Motor Impairment in Older Adults N Dooley, B Keltz American Journal of Occupational Therapy 74
- Cara and MacRae鈥檚 Psychosocial Occupational Therapy: An Evolving Practice edited by Anne MacRae, 2019, Thorofare, NJ: Slack, 264 pp., $89.95, Hardcover, ISBN 10 1-63091-477-0 鈥 NR Dooley Occupational Therapy in Mental Health 36 (2), 204-205
- Valuable occupational therapy fieldwork educator behaviors KJ Koski, RL Simon, NR Dooley Work 44 (3), 307-315
- Improving quality of life for persons with Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and their family caregivers: Brief occupational therapy intervention NR Dooley, J Hinojosa American Journal of Occupational Therapy 58 (5), 561-569
- Families and Occupations-Improving Quality of Life for Persons With Alzheimer's Disease and Their Family Caregivers: Brief Occupational Therapy Intervention NR Dooley, J Hinojosa American Journal of Occupational Therapy 58 (5), 561-569
- Collaborative learning applied to fieldwork education ES Cohn, NR Dooley, LA Simmons Occupational Therapy in Health Care 15 (1-2), 69-83