Vidette Todaro-Franceschi

Vidette Todaro-Franceschi, PhD, RN, FT, is professor emerita of nursing of the City University of New York, having taught at Kingsborough, Hunter, The College of Staten Island, and the Graduate Center for a combination of over 25 years. A registered nurse for 41 years, she has worked in a variety of roles and settings as staff, head nurse, assistant director, clinical supervisor, clinical nurse specialist, consultant and educator. Most of her practice career was spent working in critical care...See more

Vidette Todaro-Franceschi, PhD, RN, FT, is professor emerita of nursing of the City University of New York, having taught at Kingsborough, Hunter, The College of Staten Island, and the Graduate Center for a combination of over 25 years. A registered nurse for 41 years, she has worked in a variety of roles and settings as staff, head nurse, assistant director, clinical supervisor, clinical nurse specialist, consultant and educator. Most of her practice career was spent working in critical care areas, which later led to scholarly work in the areas of holistic health and healing, end-of-life/palliative care, and professional quality of life. A CUNY child, she earned her AAS and BSN in nursing at the College of Staten Island and her MS in nursing at Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing. Dr. Todaro-Franceschi earned her PhD in nursing at New York University, where she performed a transdisciplinary philosophical inquiry on ideas of energy, for which she earned several awards. She is the author of two books, many articles, chapters, and digital stories. Her first authored book, The Enigma of Energy, is based on her doctoral research; she has since then performed seminal research in the areas of bereavement healing, end-of-life nursing education, and professional quality of life, and has been consulted by professionals around the world about her work. A passionate voice for nursing, she has presented locally, nationally, and internationally on end of life and professional quality of life. She has been an End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) trainer since the first cohort in 2001. See less