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Dr. Eileen T. Lake is the new Editor-in-Chief of Research in Nursing & Health
Dr. Eileen Lake's expertise as a funded faculty researcher at CHOPR is a great match for Research in Nursing and Health, celebrating its 40th anniversary as one of nursing’s top ranked scientific journals. Lake currently has three funded interdisciplinary studies linking hospital nursing resources to quality outcomes, and her past research has centered around the influence of organizational context of care on quality of care and patient outcomes. More
“Becoming editor-in-chief of RINAH is a dream come true. My vision is to elevate RINAH internationally, and with it, nursing science." Eileen T. Lake, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
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CHOPR-HUP Nursing Study receives ENRS Presidents' Circle Award
The study to Evaluate the Value of Inpatient Nurse Practitioner-Led Care, teams Co-Principal Investigators, Dr. Karen B. Lasater, CHOPR faculty member, with Dr. Rebecca Trotta, Director of Nursing Research and Science at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) and CHOPR Senior Fellow. The award promotes partnership-driven research between academic and practice settings. Co-investigators are Drs. Regina Cunningham (HUP), Jordan Harrison (CHOPR), Colleen R. Kucharczuk (HUP), Matthew D. McHugh (CHOPR), Lynn Mara Schuchter (HUP) and Barbara Todd (HUP).
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CHOPR Director tells senior Nurses at the NHS Summit "A Safe Workforce is Paramount"
Dr. Linda H. Aiken, Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing, delivered a global perspective to senior leaders from the nursing, midwifery and care professions in England. "Safe nurse staffing is essential to improving outcomes for patients and ensuring affordable, high quality healthcare to the public," said Dr. Aiken. International collaborators and CHOPR Senior Fellows, Dr. Peter Griffiths (Professor, Chair of Health Services Research, and Head of the Health Work research group at the University of Southampton) and Dr. Anne Marie Rafferty (Professor, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at King's College, London) joined Dr. Aiken at the Summit. More
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Students gather for the final day of class with Professor Allison |
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Dr. Paul D. Allison, statistical methods expert, retires from Penn following four decades of teaching and research
Dr. Paul Allison, Professor of Sociology and CHOPR Senior Fellow, is best known for his methodological research on the analysis of longitudinal data. His graduate level course on statistics has been a favorite of CHOPR pre- and post-doctoral fellows. Professor Allison has been a long-time collaborator and statistical consultant for CHOPR research. The highly respected professor helped CHOPR trainees understand statistics, making it applicable and enjoyable. CHOPR Alumni said this about Dr. Allison's classes on statistical methods. "Theoretical and practical understandings of statistics are foundational for quantitative research. Paul Allison’s courses laid that foundation through his thoughtful and clear approach to teaching the core fundamentals. As I learn and use ever advancing statistical methods, I often find myself going back to the basics and remembering with gratitude Dr. Allison’s teaching." Dr. Karen Lasater, Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
"To this day, nearly 10 years since my class [with Professor Allison], I still reference his notes and his books! I even refer my students to his books when they are struggling with categorical data analysis or missing data issues. Penn was quite lucky to have him as a faculty member for all these years and I feel privileged to have been taught by him." Dr. Deena Kelly Costa, Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Michigan and CHOPR Senior Fellow.
"Paul Allison magically explained complicated statistical concepts so easily, even for non-native English speakers such as myself. He helped lay the foundation for me as a nurse scientist with sound quantitative and large data skills." Dr. Chenjuan Ma, Assistant Professor of Nursing, New York University, and CHOPR Senior Fellow.
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Shown here with Dr. Aiken at the 2017 AcademyHealth Annual ResearchMeeting |
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Dr. Lusine Poghosyan and Dr. Allison Squires, CHOPR Alumni and Senior Fellows, granted tenure
Dr. Lusine Poghosyan is a nationally recognized health services researcher with expertise in studying primary care organizations, workforce, teamwork, and quality of patient care, especially for chronic diseases. She was recently awarded an R01 from the Agency for Healthcare Researcha and Quality (AHRQ), for the study titled, "Racial and Ethnic Disparities In Chronic Disease Outcomes and Nurse Practitioner Practice."
"CHOPR literally changed my life on many fronts, providing me with support and mentorship ‘to grow up’ as a researcher, and so much more.” Lusine Poghosyan, PhD, RN, FAAN, Assistant Professor of Nursing at Columbia University
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Brooks Carthon (left) and Dr. Emily Haouzous (right) at the 2015 AAN Induction Ceremony |
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Dr. Allison Squires is an experienced global health researcher, who has worked in more than 30 countries. Her research methods expertise is in cross-language research, with current studies examining the impact of language concordant encounters between nurses and patients receiving home care.
“CHOPR has given me a solid foundational training in health outcomes research and ongoing opportunities from the network. Both have served me well.” Allison P. Squires, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor, New York University
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Associate Professor Brooks Carthon with Jada Edwards following the awards ceremony |
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Dr. J. Margo Brooks Carthon, CHOPR Senior Fellow, honored with an Exemplary Teaching Award from Penn Nursing, Department of Family and Community Health
Dr. Brooks Carthon received the award for the teaching methods she uses in her Nature of Nursing Practice 101. The course trains first-year students to conceptualize and understand patients and their loved ones dealing with health and illness. Penn Nursing students nominate the faculty professor they feel most demonstrates the qualities of an innovative teacher that inspires and challenges them. In the nomination letter, Penn Nursing student Jada Edwards wrote, "Excellence in teaching and dedication to students must go beyond the walls of a classroom which Dr. Brooks Carthon has demonstrated. Her natural compassion is evident through her dedication to not only student learning, but also student achievement."
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Dr. James Buchan, CHOPR Senior Fellow, is the new Editor-in-Chief of the WHO Human Resources for Health
This high impact and prestigious journal disseminates research on health workforce policy and practice, knowledge tools and implementation mechanisms globally, and reports on the impact of management of health workers' performance and its link with health outcomes. He was also named an Advisor to the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) International - a nonprofit organization based in Philadelphia that helps foreign educated healthcare professionals live and work in their country of choice by assessing and validating their academic and professional credentials.
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Dr. Barbara Todd, CHOPR Senior Fellow, recipient of the 2018 NONPF Outstanding Nurse Practitioner Educator Award
The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) award is given to outstanding educators who advance the science of caring around the world. Dr. Barbara Todd has practiced as a nurse practitioner (NP) for over 32 years in the Philadelphia region. She has been a leader developing NP models of care, and is the Director of the Greater Philadelphia Graduate Nurse Education demonstration, a collaborative policy project of HUP and CHOPR.
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Dr. Jordan Harrison with CHOPR Senior Fellow, Dr. Christopher Friese and Dr. Ellen Smith, PhD Program Director, UMICH |
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Dr. Jordan Harrison, National Clinician Scholar and CHOPR Postdoctoral Fellow, wins the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan
A Hillman Scholar in Nursing Innovation alumnus, Dr. Harrison, receives the award for her doctoral thesis titled, "Functional Status, Quality of Life, and Long-Term Survival in a Cohort of Women with Breast Cancer and Heart Failure." The award from the Rackham Graduate School is highly competitive with two different distinguished faculty panels from across the University reviewing the individual nominations. Jordan is the second nurse scientist in history to receive the award.
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CHOPR Graduates will receive School of Nursing Graduation Awards on May 13, 2018Ms. Betsy White won the Dorothy Mereness Award for Exceptional Ability in Scholarly Writing. She authored a policy analysis comparing nursing education and workforce initiatives in the United States and England and she is lead author of a recently published paper documenting improved outcomes for hospitalized dementia patients when their nurses are BSNs.
Dr. Melissa Charlie won the Marion R. Gregory Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award. The award is given to the PhD student whose completed dissertation promises significant contribution to nursing knowledge. Dr. Charlie's doctoral thesis titled, “Ensuring the Continuation of the Public Health Nurses Workforce: Comparison of Work Outcomes with Nurses in Other Sectors of Health-care,” used RN4CAST-US data to compare nurse job outcomes, job dissatisfaction, burnout, and intent to leave, of public health nurses with school nurses and home health nurses.
Ms. Jordan Sanders is the recipient of the Mary D. Naylor Undergraduate Research Award. Jordan is a dual-degree nursing and economics student and was awarded competitive funding for two research projects by Penn’s Office of Nursing Research.
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Matthew Lee awarded Hillman Scholar in Nursing Innovation Interdisciplinary Inquiry Fellowship on engagement and retention in virtual spaces
As one of the pioneers of network culture research and an early, early explorer of virtual space, Penn Hillman Scholar in Nursing Innovation and CHOPR PhD student, Mr. Matthew Lee, is passionate about using the power of serious games to change the world and improve people’s lives. Last month, he led the Serious Games Roundtable at the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) and Expo in San Francisco.
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Amanda Bettencourt, CHOPR Predoctoral Fellow, was elected to the American Association of Critical Care Nurses Board of Directors
The second year CHOPR doctoral student and Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist, Amanda Bettencourt, is interested in working on issues surrounding the "second victim phenomenon", which occurs when nurses feel they have failed the patient. Since almost one million acute and critical care nurses are likely affected by this each year, she joins other health care professionals who believe it is important that nurses and nurse leaders have evidence and guidance to effectively support nurses involved in adverse events. Her three-year term begins July 2018.
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The Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation has awarded the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) and CHOPR investigators funding for a mixed method study, “The Flipped Discharge: Development and Implementation of an Innovative Hospital to Home Intervention for Older Adults at Risk for Institutionalization” to engage patients, family caregivers, and clinicians to develop a hospital-to-home intervention for frail older adults at risk for skilled nursing facility placement. CHOPR Senior Fellow, Dr. Rebecca Trotta, Director of Nursing Research and Science at HUP is the Principal Investigator with co-investigators: Dr. Ryan Greysen, Chief, Section of Hospital Medicine; Dr. Colleen Chancler, Director of Therapy Services; and CHOPR Senior Fellow, Dr. Margo Brooks-Carthon, Associate Professor of Nursing and Africana Studies.
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Dr. Ann Kutney Lee was awarded the VA Merit Award titled, "Investigating Multi-Level Determinants of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Quality of End-of-Life Care for Veterans." The three-year study involves several VA researchers and Penn SON faculty, including Drs. Mary Ersek and Margo Brooks Carthon. Investigators will examine end-of-life (EOL) care patterns, including burdensome transitions and intensive EOL care, comparing racial/ethnic minority to non-minority Veteran populations.
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Aiken LH, Sloane DM, Ball J, Bruyneel L, Rafferty AM, Griffiths P. (2017). Is Magnet recognition associated with improved outcomes among critically ill children treated at freestanding children’s hospitals? Letter to the Editor. Journal of Critical Care. 43:372.
Ball J, Bruyneel L, Aiken LH, Sermeus W, Sloane DM, Rafferty AM, Linqvist R, Tischelman C, Griffiths, PD. (2017). Post-operative mortality, missed care and nurse staffing in nine countries: a cross sectional study International Journal of Nursing Studies. 78:10-15.
Barnes H, Maier CB, Sarik DA, Germack HD, Aiken LH, McHugh MD (2017). Effects of regulation and payment policies on nurse practitioners’ clinical practice. Medical Care Research and Review. 74(4):431-451.
Smith, JG, Rogowski, JA, Schoenauer, KM, Lake, ET. (2018). Infants in Drug Withdrawal. The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing. 32(1):72–79.
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NINR-Funded Advanced Training in Nursing Outcomes Research (T32NR007104) Postdoctoral Position
Perfect for the highly motivated individual to work on cutting-edge national and international research projects. This individual will have access to unique datasets spanning 15 years of health services and policy research, working with leaders in the field for mentorship to develop lines of independent scholarship, and plan a career trajectory in research. More
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