Alice
L. March, PhD, RN, FNP-C
Assistant Professor
205.348.0422
almarch@bama.ua.edu
Dr. Alice March graduated with an associate’s degree in nursing from Mohawk Valley Community College in 1975. She received her nurse practitioner certificate in family health from Community General Hospital in Syracuse, New York in 1993 and is currently board certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. In 1997 she returned to school fulltime, while maintaining a fulltime practice as a nurse practitioner. Her degrees from State University of New York at Binghamton include a bachelor’s degree in nursing (1999), a master’s degree in community health nursing with and functional role of administrator (2002), and most recently a PhD in rural nursing (2006).
Dr. March has extensive clinical experience in the areas of obstetrics, intraoperative nursing, home care, chemotherapy administration, urgent care, family practice, women’s health, and geriatrics. Her teaching experience includes clinical supervision of generic and accelerated track nursing students, as well as lecture experience with bachelor accelerated track students in the areas of fundamentals of nursing, physical assessment, research in nursing, and pathology. Dr March is excited to join the CCN as an assistant professor and is enjoying teaching community health nursing and pharmacology.
Honors and awards include the Zeta Iota Chapter Thesis/Dissertation Award, Decker School of Nursing Dissertation Year Scholarship, Graduate Tuition and Decker School of Nursing Scholarships, and a teaching assistantship. She was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau in 2000. She maintains active professional membership in the Rural Nurse Organization, The Nurse Practitioner Association of New York State, Sigma Theta Tau International, and American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.
Dr. March’s past research has been in the area of adolescent risk and protective factors and their relationship to age at first intercourse. Continuing research interests include risk factors, protective factors, and health risk behaviors related to adolescent sexuality, as well as how those factors are modified by rural, suburban, and urban socioeconomic living environments.