- Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
- Heart Failure Treatment and Management
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Sex and Gender in Healthcare
- Cardiovascular Issues in Pregnancy
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Ethics in medical practice
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
University of Michigan
2014-2024
American Academy of Nursing
2022
University of Illinois Chicago
2014-2021
Women’s Health Care
2018
Lewis University
2017
Wilbur Wright College
2017
Rice Research Institute
2017
Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living
2017
Mayo Clinic Health System
2016
Michigan Medicine
2016
The aim of this study was to describe (1) nurses' physical and mental health; (2) the relationship between health medical errors; (3) association perceptions wellness support their health.A cross-sectional descriptive survey conducted with 1790 nurses across U.S.Over half reported suboptimal health. Approximately having errors in past 5 years. Compared better health, those worse were associated 26% 71% higher likelihood errors. There also a significant greater perceived worksite...
Critical care nurses experience higher rates of mental distress and poor health than other nurses, adversely affecting quality safety. It is not known, however, how critical nurses' overall affects the occurrence medical errors.To examine associations among physical health, perception workplace wellness support, self-reported errors.This survey-based study used a cross-sectional, descriptive correlational design. A random sample 2500 members American Association Critical-Care Nurses was...
Differences in tobacco/nicotine use by sexual orientation are well documented. Development of interventions requires attention to the etiology these differences. This study examined associations among discrimination, cigarette smoking, any use, and DSM-5 tobacco disorder (TUD) United States. We used data from 2012–2013 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol Related Conditions based in-person interviews with a nationally representative sample noninstitutionalized US adults. Approximately...
Background The effects of inadequate sleep on clinical decisions may be important for patients in critical care units, who are often more vulnerable than other units. Fatigued nurses likely well-rested to make faulty that lead decision regret, a negative cognitive emotion occurs when the actual outcome differs from desired or expected outcome. Objectives To examine association between selected variables, impairment due fatigue, and clinical-decision self-efficacy regret among nurses....
Meeting the expectation for scholarly productivity can be challenging nursing faculty, especially in absence of grant or other funding. Secondary data analysis is one strategy to address this challenge. The use existing test new hypotheses answer research questions has several advantages. It typically takes less time and resources, low risk participants, allows access large sets longitudinal data. Despite these advantages, limitations do exist, including a lack knowledge existence rich how...
Background: health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is markedly impaired in patients with heart failure (HF). Despite worse prognosis and physical status, older have better HRQOL than younger patients. Objective: to determine reasons for differences compared HF Methods: a mixed methods approach was used. assessed using the Minnesota Living Questionnaire among (n = 603) four age groups (≤53, 54–62, 63–70 ≥71 years). Socio-demographic/clinical psychological factors related were determined...
Acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery is associated with increased operative and late mortality. The objective was to determine if short long term mortality are systematically improved completeness of postoperative acute reversal or amount residual renal function.Retrospective, single center study.Tertiary care hospital.One thousand five hundred forty-three patients divided into groups based on Kidney Disease International Group Outcome criteria.Operative 3.1% overall progressively worse...
Background Triage nurses are responsible for determining the urgency with which patients evaluated and treated. How triage make decisions is critical to providing effective care. Objective The aims were (1) analyze psychometric properties of Nurses' Cardiac Instrument in a large, national sample emergency department nurses, (2) recommendations refining instrument. Methods Data obtained from descriptive, survey study. Participants recruited Emergency Nurses Association website using...
Although nurses frequently determine patient priority and urgency status for emergency evaluation treatment of symptoms suggestive myocardial infarction (MI), surprisingly few studies have specifically examined the cardiac triage decisions department (ED) nurses. Therefore, purpose this study was to explicate decision-making processes ED who men women MI.A qualitative, descriptive conducted using focus group methodology. A synthesized conceptual model used guide discussions begin process...
Abstract Background Hypertension is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and affects nearly one in two adults the United States when defined as blood pressure at least 130/80 mm Hg or on antihypertensive medication (Virani et al., 2021, Circulation , 143, e254). Long‐standing disparities hypertension awareness, treatment, control among racial ethnic populations exist States. High‐quality evidence exists for how to prevent role nurses can play this effort. In response 2020 Surgeon...