Karen L Rich

Karen L. Rich is a retiredAssociate Professor at The University of Southern Mississippi College of Nursing in Long Beach, Mississippi, where she taughtpopulation-focused nursing, law and ethics, professional development, and leadership. Dr. Rich's doctoral degree in nursing with an emphasis in ethics is from The University of Southern Mississippi. She has a master's in public health nursing from Louisiana State University and a post-master's in psychiatric-mental health nursing, nurse...See more

Karen L. Rich is a retiredAssociate Professor at The University of Southern Mississippi College of Nursing in Long Beach, Mississippi, where she taughtpopulation-focused nursing, law and ethics, professional development, and leadership. Dr. Rich's doctoral degree in nursing with an emphasis in ethics is from The University of Southern Mississippi. She has a master's in public health nursing from Louisiana State University and a post-master's in psychiatric-mental health nursing, nurse practitioner emphasis, from The University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Rich serves as a Consultant Editor for the international Nursing Ethics journal. She serves on the ethics committee of a large county hospital in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dr. Rich has written a number of articles and book chapters about ethics and philosophy. Her special interests are communitarian ethics, virtue ethics, ethics in public health, Eastern philosophy and ethics, and ethics in nursing education and leadership. See less