Dr. Christine Beck

Dr. Beck was dawn to Trinity Christian College as a teaching/learning community that encourages both traditional and nontraditional adult learners to develop professional competencies in service to communities through innovative collaboration, communication, health scholarship, evidence-based practice, academic excellence, and self-knowledge. She is honored to have the opportunity to engage as faculty in scholarship, teaching, practice, and Christ-like service.

As a Certified Transcultural Nurse and with a background in medical anthropology, Dr. Beck enjoys exploring the integration of cultural sensitivity assessment, awareness of social determinants of health, health beliefs, and patient and healer engagement into nursing encounters within the lived experience of individuals, families, and populations from diverse backgrounds. Every patient, family, group, and community can tell stories which reveal their holism and complexity. We only need to listen.

Experience and knowledge in public and community health nursing and evidence-based practice can improve equitable health outcomes for diverse populations. Nursing students benefit from experiential collaborative community experiences in non-traditional partnerships with diverse communities, which enhances their ability to show accountability for their professional practice and contribute to society within an evolving healthcare system in a diverse and multi-cultural world.

Research Interests:

Dr. Beck’s research focus is a qualitative phenomenological approach to patient perceptions and health beliefs. The hermeneutic process of inquiry facilitates engagement of both nurse researcher and patient and gives voice to the integrated and wholeness of experience. This approach to inquiry adds language and dialogue to the meaning of day-to-day existence. As both a philosophy and methodology for inquiry, hermeneutic phenomenology makes a useful contribution to the body of nursing knowledge through rich description of nurses, patients, and human processes.

When she is not teaching:

Beck is volunteering for a mission organization- World Curet Foundation, spending time with her daughter and pets, church activities, swimming, Qigong, reading, and piano.

Beck, C. & Curet, O.L. (2021). Comparing a qualitative versus a quantitative approach to analyze the experience of patients views of their care: the case of a Hawaiian patient population. Proceedings of the Nursing 2020 Singapore Nursing Research Conference. 2020

Journal of Nursing Education (2013) Hirokawa, R.Y., Daub, K., Lovell, E., Smith, S., Davis, A., and Beck, C. (2012).

Using a Human Patient Simulator to Study the Relationship Between Communication and Nursing Students’ Team Performance. Journal of Nursing Education, 51 (10), 1-5