Marilyn Meyer Bratt,

PhD, RN

Office Phone

(414) 288-3840

E-Mail Address marilyn.bratt@marquette.edu

Specialization

Acute Care, Curriculum Development and Evaluation

Highest Degree & Institution

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Brief Statement of Scholarly Interests

• Nurse residency program development and evaluation
• Nurse preceptor training and evaluation
• Teaching strategies that promote critical thinking and professional competency
• Nurse job satisfaction and retention

Additional Descriptors

• Nursing education models and curriculum development
• Collaborative multi-site research
• Building collaboratives with service partners

Descriptive Titles of Courses Recently Taught

• NCLEX Review
• Nursing Care of Adults
• Nursing Care of Acutely Ill Adults
• Pharmacotherapeutics for Nursing Practice

Scholarly Publications
Harrison, T., Ball, K., Stewart, S. & Bratt, M. (2007). Clinical focus program: Enhancing the transition of senior nursing students to independent practice. Journal of Nursing Administration, 37(6), 311-317.

Bratt, M., Broome, Kelber, S. & Lostocco, L. (2000). The influence of stress and nursing leadership on job satisfaction of pediatric intensive care nurses. The American Journal of Critical Care, 9(5), 307-317.

Bratt, M. (2000). Collaborative institutional research. Journal of Child and Family Nursing, 3(4), 251-258.

Lostocco, L. & Bratt, M. (2000).  Planning for the future-- Nurse retention in children's hospitals. Children's Hospitals Today, Spring, 22-23.

Selected Presentations

September 2008 - Wisconsin Nurse Residency Program: Best Practice; Excellence in Wisconsin Nursing; Wausau, WI

June 2008 – Building and Retaining our New Graduate Workforce: An Academic-Service Partnership Creating Best Practice; 6th National Conference of Nursing Workforce Leaders, Effective Retention Throughout the Career Continuum; Denver, CO

May 2008 - Promoting Retention of New Graduate Nurses: Outcomes of a Nurse Residency Program; Building Bridges to Research Based Nursing Practice; Milwaukee, WI.

May 2008 - Supporting New Nurses: It Takes a Team; Advancing Nursing Practice: Putting Patients First; Fargo, ND

September 2007 - Academic and Service Partners Co-Creating Solutions to Enhance New Graduate Nurse Retention; Wisconsin League for Nursing Annual Conference; Waukesha, WI.

November 2006 - The Winning Formula for Helping New Graduates Succeed: Service-Academic Partnership; 6th International Conference Healthy Workplaces in Action; Toronto, Ontario, Canada

April 2006 - Insuring the Nurse Workforce in Wisconsin through Academic-Service Collaboration: Wisconsin Nurse Residency Program; 2006 W-ONE Annual Convention; Wisconsin Dells, WI

November 2005 - Insuring the Future of Rural Nursing: The Wisconsin Nurse Residency Program; Symposium Presentation Sigma Theta Tau International Biennial Convention; Indianapolis, IN

April 2005 - Sustaining our Future Nurse Workforce: The Wisconsin Nurse Residency Program; Taking the Longview: Turning Vision into Action, 3rd Annual National Workforce Conference; Portland, OR

November 2004 - Strengthening the Infrastructure of Nursing Education Through an Evidenced Based Nurse Residency Program, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, West Palm Beach, FL

October 2004 - Perspectives of the Health Care Workforce, Annual Summit of the Wisconsin Workforce Development Board, Madison, WI

March 2004 - Insuring a Future for Nursing: The Wisconsin Center for Nursing, Wisconsin Nurses Association, Madison, WI

Extramural Grants or Awards

2007-2010 - $1,034,391 Division of Nursing, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services Grant Number D11HP08384; Wisconsin Nurse Residency Program: Continuing Partnerships to Support New Nurses’ Seamless Transition into Practice

2004 - $942,620 Division of Nursing, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services grant number D64HP03092, The Wisconsin Nurse Residency Program

2005 - $100,000 Faye McBeath Foundation, Milwaukee, WI; The Wisconsin Center for Nursing

2004 - $50,000 Wisconsin Hospital Foundation, Madison, WI; The Wisconsin Center for Nursing

Editorial Board

• Advance for Nurses

Reviewer

• Lippincott Publishers
• Delmar Publishers

Consultant

• National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI)

Professional Affiliations

• American Nurses Association
• Midwest Nursing Research Society
• Milwaukee Nurses Association
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Sigma Theta Tau
• Wisconsin Nurses Association