Nadeen Alshakhshir, PhD, MSN, BSN, RN

Nadeen Alshakhshir (she/her) PhD, RN, a first-year postdoctoral fellow of the President’s Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP). Nadeen graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing PhD program in Spring 2024. Nadeen is an international postdoctoral fellow originally from Jordan where she completed her undergraduate nursing degree and palliative care nursing masters’ degree from the University of Jordan with a focus on nurses’ spirituality and spiritual care. Nadeen’s research program focuses on advancing positive health outcomes, through spirituality, for youth with cancer. Specifically, to advance science by describing early processes that awaken the spiritual identity and develop nurse-led interventions to foster youth’s spirituality to promote their health and well-being.

Alshakhshir, N.S., Ersig, A.L., Ward, E., Hendricks-Ferguson, V.L. and Montgomery, K.E. (2025). An evolutionary concept analysis of spiritual competence in nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 81, 2977-2989. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.16660

Alshakhshir, N. S., Hendricks-Ferguson, V. L., Ward, E., Ersig, A. L., & Montgomery, K. E. (2025). Awakening the Spiritual Identity in Adolescents With Cancer: A Phenomenological Study. Cancer Nursing, 10.1097/NCC.0000000000001470. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/NCC.0000000000001470

Montgomery, K. E., Alshakhshir, N., Basha, M., Geenen, E., Nyholm, L., & Skeens, M. A. (2024). An exploratory qualitative study on factors influencing the level of agreement in symptom reports in child-caregiver dyads. Palliative and Supportive Care, 2024;22(6):2049-2059. doi:10.1017/S1478951524001172

Alshakhshir, N. S., & Montgomery, K. (2023). An integrated literature review revealing the process of awakening the spiritual self/identity among adolescents with cancer. ANS. Advances in Nursing Science, 46(2), E44–E65. https://doi.org/10.1097/ANS.0000000000000452