Professional Activities

Reviewer for the Journal of Professional Nursing

Member, National League of Nursing

Member, National American Nursing Diagnosis Association

Member, Sigma Theta Tau International, Eta Rho Chapter

Selected Publications

Tanicala, M., Scheffer, B.K. & Roberts, M. (in press, Nursing Education Perspectives). Moving nursing education toward a culture of safety: Phase I-beginning to define pass/fail nursing student clinical behaviors.

Rubenfeld, M.G. & Scheffer, B.K. (2010) Critical Thinking T.A.C.T.I.C.S* for Nurses: *Tracking, Assessing & Cultivating Thinking in Competency-based Strategies. Boston: Jones & Bartlett. Revised title for 2nd Edition: Critical Thinking TACTICS for Nurses: Achieving the IOM Competencies.

Scheffer, B.K. & Rubenfeld, M.G. (2006). Critical Thinking: A Tool in Search of a Job, Journal of Nursing Education, 45(6) 1-2

Rubenfeld, M.G. & Scheffer, B.K. (2006) Critical Thinking T.A.C.T.I.C.S.* for Nursing: * Tracking, Assessing & Cultivating Thinking in Competency- based Strategies. Boston: Jones & Bartlet.

Allen, G., Rubenfeld, M.G. & Scheffer, B.K. (2004). Reliability of Assessment of Critical Thinking. Journal of Professional Nursing. 20(1). 15-22 

Rubenfeld, M.G. and Scheffer, B.K.(2001) Critical Thinking: What is it and how do we teach it? In J. McCloskey- Douchterman and H. Grace, Current Issues in Nursing (Eds) 6th Ed. St. Louis: Mosby

Scheffer, B.K. and Rubenfeld, M.G. (2000) A consensus statement on critical thinking in nursing. Journal of Nursing Education. Vol 39, #8, 352-359

Selected Awards

American Journal of Nursing Books of the Year Award: January, 2006 for Critical Thinking T.A.C.T.I.C.S. * for Nursing: * Tracking, Assessing & Cultivating Thinking in Competency-based Strategies. Boston: Jones & Bartlett. Co-authored with M. Gaie Rubenfeld

Eastern Michigan University Scholarship Recognition Award for Critical Thinking T.A.C.T.I.C.S. * for Nursing: Tracking, Assessing & Cultivating Thinking in Competency-based Strategies. March 6, 2006

American Journal of Nursing Books of the Year Award January 1996 for Critical Thinking in Nursing: An Interactive Approach. Co-authored with M. Gaie Rubenfeld.

Selected Funded Research and Projects

National League for Nursing, Nursing Education Research Award, 2008, Co Investigator Martha Tanicala for Phase II of research: Developing an instrument to measure Baccalaureate nursing student behaviors that result in failure in a clinical nursing course. Funded for $6400.

Eta Rho Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International Research Award, 2008, Co Investigator-Martha Tanicala for Phase II of research: What nursing student behaviors result in failure in a clinical nursing course. $500 award.

National League for Nursing, Nursing Education Research Award, 2007, Co Investigator- Martha Tanicala for Phase I of Research: What Baccalaureate Nursing Student Behaviors Result in Failure in a Clinical Nursing Course. Funded for $5,022.

Eta Rho Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International Research Award, 2007, Co Investigator- Martha Tanicala for Phase I of Research: What Nursing Student Behaviors Result in Failure in a Clinical Nursing Course. $500 award.

Advanded Education Nursing Grant Program, HRSA-07-091. Dr. Naomi Ervin, Principle Investigator. Co-Investigators include: Scheffer, Beard, Wu, Alford, Bennion, Nelson, Lan, and Wilson. Title: Development of new PhD in Education with a Concentration in Nursing Education. Submitted December 6, 2006 for $247,000. Denied, Re-submitted December, 2007. Denied.

Promise of Nursing Grant from the Southeastern Michigan Community Foundation: Awarded September 2003 to develop video-DVD customized teaching tools available to our students in learning laboratory and on the website. $15,000 with additional funding of $2300, September 2004.