Associate Professor
English

Staci Defibaugh

4032 BATTEN ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, 23529

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (2015)

M.A. in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (2014)

M.A. in TESOL and Linguistics, Ball State University, (2010)

B.A. in English, University of South Carolina, (2001)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Defibaugh, S. "Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency" $3,500. 凹凸视频. 2017 - 2017

Articles

Defibaugh, S. and Onosato, L. (2025). 鈥淭hey just don鈥檛 have the 鈥渄octor鈥 in front of their name:鈥 Dimensions of trust of physician assistants. Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare 9 (2) , pp. 100018.
Defibaugh, S. (2019). 鈥淚 talked to my doctor:鈥 Constructing the neoliberal patient-consumer in direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. Discourse, Context and Media 28 , pp. 1-7.
Defibaugh, S. (2018). Small talk as work talk: Enacting the patient-centered approach in nurse-practitioner-patient visits. Communication & Medicine 14 (2) , pp. 97-107.
Defibaugh, S. (2018). Small talk as work talk: Enacting the patient-centered approach in nurse-practitioner-patient visits. Communication & Medicine 14 (2) , pp. 97-107.
Defibaugh, S. (2017). Qualitative Approaches to the Study of Medical Discourse: Combining Multiple Methodologies. SAGE Publications Ltd.

Books

Defibaugh, S. (2018). Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency. Springer International Publishing.
Defibaugh, S. (2018). Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency: Accomplishing Patient-centered Care. Palgrave MacMillan.

Book Chapters

Defibaugh, S. (2018). Conclusion Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency (pp. 121-129) Springer International Publishing.
Defibaugh, S. (2018). Frontstage/Backstage: Attending to Organizational Responsibilities Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency (pp. 27-51) Springer International Publishing.
Defibaugh, S. (2018). Need to Know: Patient Education and Epistemic Responsibility Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency (pp. 53-77) Springer International Publishing.
Defibaugh, S. (2018). Treading Lightly: Indirect Speech in Medical Directives Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency (pp. 79-99) Springer International Publishing.