Charlene A. Winters, PhD, ACNS-BC, is an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at Montana State University-Bozeman, Missoula Campus. She serves as Project Director for the Clinical Nurse Leader program and teaches the graduate-level rural health course. Her research interests are illness uncertainty, adaptation and chronic illness self-management, and rural nursing theory development. She is an active member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, Western Institute of Nursing, Montana Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Sigma Theta Tau International, Rural Nurse Org...