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Dr. Hawthorne is an Assistant Professor and RN-BSN Coordinator at the Â鶹ŮÀÉ Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and is a Board member of the International Association for Human Caring. Her practice interests focus on promoting spirituality in health and healing and demonstrating the significance of spirituality to holistic care nursing. Research investigation included using spirituality as growing in caring to understand the grief and resultant mental health symptoms experienced by bereaved parents; to identify differences in bereaved parents’ use of spirituality as growing in caring by racial/ethnic and/or religion groups for neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)/pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) death; and exploring nurses’ perceptions of their spirituality and the support they provide to parents’ use of spiritual practices in the neonatal intensive care unit. Dr. Hawthorne recently received funding from the Association of Women’s Health Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing (AWHONN) Every Woman, Every Baby Award to explore the effectiveness of mindfulness in maternal care to mitigate stress and anxiety and improve metal well-being.