Kimberly Sloop
- Ph.D., Nursing, Duquesne University
- M.S., B.S., Nursing, Lenoir-Rhyne University
Kimberly Sloop has more than 20 years of nursing experience with a background in oncology, palliative care and hospice.
Previous clinical experience includes patient care, serving as a charge nurse, preceptor, nurse educator and committee member at Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, North Carolina, from 2001 to 2015.
In 2015, Sloop joined the Lenoir-Rhyne University nursing faculty. Her teaching responsibilities have included gerontology, health assessment, medical-surgical nursing, leadership and clinical nursing. She also coordinates clinical courses and advises nursing students. Sloop is actively involved in the School of Nursing's Mu Alpha Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and has served as the chapter's counselor and president.
Her research interests include family caregiving, chronic disease and the care of older adults. Sloop completed her dissertation, "The Lived Experience of Family Caregivers Witnessing Breathlessness in Individuals With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study," at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2023, she received the Doctoral Student Research Scholarship from Sigma's Epsilon Phi Chapter.
Sloop is honored to contribute to nursing science while preparing the next generation of nurses. She is committed to advancing research that improves the quality of life for patients and family caregivers and to sharing those findings through teaching, scholarship and service.