Education
Ph.D., UT Tyler
MSN, Texas Woman's University
BS, Psychology Texas Christian University
BSN, Texas Christian University
ADN, Tarrant County College
Courses Taught
Foundations Concepts
Foundations Clinical/Lab
Transition to Practice
CRIS II
Professional Role 1
Labor Support Elective
Maternal Child and Family Concepts and Clinical
Areas of Focus
Prenatal care, pregnancy outcomes, Certified Nurse Midwives, intrapartum nurses, continuous labor support, Covid-19 impact on birth experience, and pregnancy related empowerment, student nurse provided labor support, childbirth attitudes
- Saleh, L. (2023). Relationships among individual and hospital characteristics and self-efficacy in labor support among intrapartum nurses in Texas. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 53(3). 272-284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jogn.2023.12.006
- Saleh, L., Canclini, S., Mathison, C., Combs, S., & Dickerson, B. (2023). "This is not what I imagined motherhood would look like": Pregnancy, postpartum, parenting during COVID-19 - A qualitative analysis of the first year since birth. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 23(578). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-023-05872-3
- Saleh, L., Canclini, S., Mathison, C., Dickerson, B., Greer, K., Combs, S., & Collins, K. (2022). Mothers' experiences of pregnancy, labor and birth, and postpartum during COVID in the US: Preliminary results of a mixed methods study. Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing, 36(1), 55-67. doi: 10.109/JPN. 0000000000000624
- Smith, A., & Saleh, L. (2021). A narrative review of maternal sleep issues with a focus on mental health in the postpartum period. SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine, 3, 1165-1176. doi:10.1007/s42399-021-00840-4
- Saleh, L. (2019). Women's perceived quality of care and self-reported empowerment with CenteringPregnancy versus individual prenatal care. Nursing for Women's Health, 23(3), 234-244. doi:10.1016/j.nwh.2019.03.008
- Nominee Ruth Eloise Sperry Teaching Award 2023
- Last Lecture 2017
- Nominee Wassenich Mentoring Award 2017
- AWHONN
- Sigma Theta Tau, Beta Alpha Chapter
- Southern Nursing Research Society