Dr. Hodges serves as the RN-BSN Coordinator at Georgia Baptist College of Nursing.  She recruits, advises, and counsels RN-BSN students returning to school.  Her clinical expertise is primarily adult health, critical care, and geriatrics.  Publications include: Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Journal of Nursing Education, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Public Health Nursing, Nursing Education Perspectives, High Acuity Nursing, and  Nursing: Rx for Success.

Community involvement centers on lower extremity assessment and foot care for the underserved elderly, and leadership within the interdisciplinary regional Atlanta Foot Care Coalition, a subcommittee of the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC).

Completed research includes both qualitative and quantitative research including gerontology (Masterworks of Art and Chronic Illness Experience in the Elderly), teaching-learning (Collaborative Interdisciplinary Learning for Pharmacy and Nursing Students), Community-based HIV/AIDS awareness and Universal Precautions (HIV/AIDS: A challenge in the Classroom),  Camp Nursing as an Undergraduate Experience.  A NLN Nursing Education Research Grant is currently funding a study of acute care career persistence in BSN prepared nurses. Presentations include local, regional, national, and international audiences.