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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

faculty_directory

Acord, Lea

Bekhet, Abir

Belknap, Ruth

Boaz, Lesley
Bobay, Kathleen

Bratt, Marilyn
Bull, Margaret
Dressler, Diane
Fehring, Richard
Frenn, Marilyn

Glasenapp, Kate
Haglund, Kristin
Hanson, Lisa
Jones, Kelli

Kosmoski-Goepfert, Kerry
Kowatsch, Judith

Laabs, Carolyn Ann

Lough, Mary Ann
O'Brien, Maureen

Piacentine, Linda

Poedel, Robin
Rhone, Gloria

Schweitzer, Tracy

Sebern, Margaret

Shaw, Christine
Stohrer, Fr. Walter
VandeVusse, Leona
Wake, Madeline

Weiss, Marianne

Woda, Aimee

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