Mailing Address:

School of Nursing
University of Minnesota
5-140 Weaver-Densford Hall
308 Harvard Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Educational Background:

B.S., 1968, Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.S., 1977, Childbearing-Childrearing Family Nursing, University of Minnesota
Ph.D., 1991, Education, University of Minnesota

Teaching Areas:

Pediatrics.
Family centered care.
Chronic illness in children.
Asthma.

Research Interests:

Specialty area is self-care by children with asthma. (Selected publications are listed below.)

Selected Publications:

Alaniz, K. (May 2001) Camp Supertots: a Preschool Asthma Ray Camp. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Lung Association, San Francisco, California.

Alaniz, K. (June 2000) Camp Supertots. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of Nurses, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Alaniz, K., & Nordstrand, J. (1999). Camp Superteens: An asthma education program for adolescents. The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing, 24(3), 133-137.

Alaniz, K. (1995). Student nurses as staff at a camp for preschool children with asthma. Journal of Nursing Education, 34(3), 137-139.

Center Membership:

Center for Child and Family Health Promotion Research