Brief Bio

Dr. Lambe is a Nurse Practitioner with extensive clinical experience in medical oncology and end of life issues. She earned her BSN at Winston-Salem State University; her MSN and PhD in Nursing from the School of Nursing, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; and a post-Master’s Nurse Practitioner certificate from Duke University.

At Duke, Dr. Lambe teaches the oncology nurse practitioner symptom management class, an elective in end of life care and online pathophysiology class. Her research interests include cancer survivorship and quality of life, pain management, breast cancer and end of life care.

Dr. Lambe has been a practicing nurse for the last 30 years. She has practiced as both a clinical specialist and as a nurse practitioner with a private oncology practice at Rex Hospital in Raleigh, NC. In that role, she developed both education and support materials for both patients and families. Her oncology interest focuses on symptom management for oncology patients. She has been active in developing educational programs for advanced oncology nurses in chemotherapy administration locally and has served on test development committees for national oncology certification. She is an active member of the local and national Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) and the local and national Oncology Nursing Society (ONS). She is the 2010 recipient of the ONS Foundation Pat McCue/New Orleans Chapter End-of-Life Care Nursing Career Development Award.

Academic Program Affiliations

Education

Professional Certifications

Research Interests

Clinical Interests

At present Dr. Lambe combines faculty responsibilities with a practice as a Nurse Practitioner in Palliative Care with Rex Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina. She considers the clinical experience that she gains working with terminally ill patients and their families to be invaluable in her work as a nursing educator. At Rex, her focus is tailoring palliative care to maximize each patient’s desired quality of life.

Awards and Honors

• 2010 Pat McCue/New Orleans Chapter End-of-Life Care Nursing Career Development Award, Oncology Nursing Society Foundation

• 2003 Inducted, Sigma Theta Tau – Alpha Alpha Chapter

• 1999 Great 100 Nurses in North Carolina

• 1989 Presidential Award, Wake County American Cancer Society

• 1988 1st Place State Award, Prison Project, American Cancer Society

Areas of Expertise

• Oncology
• Palliative Care

Representative Publications

• 2012 -- Curcio, K., Lambe, C., Schneider, S. M. Evaluation of a cancer survivorship protocol: Transitioning cancer patients to cancer survivors. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing. 2012, in press; 16

• 2007 -- Durham, C,, Alden, K., Lambe, C. OB unfolding cases. Quality & Safety Education for Nurses, Patient-Centered Care #12. 2007;

• 2006 -- Pubmed # 16554692 Barroso, J., Edlin, A., Sandelowski, M., Lambe, C. Bridging the gap between research and practice: The development of a digital library of research syntheses. Comput Inform Nurs. June, 2006; 24(2); 85-94

• 2004 -- Pubmed # 15227758 Sandelowski, M., Lambe, C., Barroso, J. Stigma in HIV-positive women. J Nurs Scholarsh. June, 2004; 36(2); 122-8

• 1995 -- Pubmed # 7600549 Dalton, J. A., Lambe, C. Tailoring treatment approaches to the individualized needs of cancer patients with pain. Cancer Nurs. June, 1995; 18(3); 180-8

Grant Funding (selected)

• Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Advanced Nursing Practice  
  Health Resources and Service Administration
  D09HP09346
  07/2008-06/2011
  Role: PI
  Project Goal: The purpose of this project is to prepare expert advanced practice nurses in end of life care, particularly in high risk and underserved populations.

• Complementary and Alternative Therapy Use During Early Stage Breast Cancer  
  National Institute of Nursing Research to the UNC Center on Innovation in Health Disparities Research
  P20-NR008369
  07/2004-06/2006
  Role: Sub-investigator
  Project Goal: The proposed study will extend current literature about complementary therapy during treatment for breast cancer. It will expand the current definition or complementary therapy to encompass traditional and folk remedies in use within the African American and rural population of breast cancer patients. It will also shed light on the reasons women decide to use CAM and the cues they use to decide. With this information nurses will be better able to educate and design interventions that will assist women to safely tolerate potentially life saving treatments for breast cancer and incorporate beneficial CAM therapies.