Highest Degree
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago
Brief Statement of Scholarly Interests The relationship among the design of work for RNs, unit/organizational culture and the quality and cost of patient care; the impact of changes in nursing care delivery on RN professional practice environment and job satisfaction; the relationship among managerial nurses' leadership behaviors, nursing unit tasks, unit struture, and RN job satisfaction; Factors related to the retention of RNs I am also interested in how low to high tech simulations can prepare a nursing workforce for the delivery of safe patient care in this time of rising patient acuity levels across all health care settings.
Additional Descriptors
Distance Education, Simulation Technology and Safe Patient Care
Descriptive Titles of Courses Recently Taught
Nurs 160:Nursing Care of the Acutely Ill Adult --Theory
Nurs 161:Nursing Care of the Acutely Ill Adult -- Practicum
Nurs 209:Creating Nursing Care Systems
Nurs 251 - Practicum 1:Advanced Nursing Care of the Acutely Ill
Nurs252- Practicum 2:Advanced Nursing Care of the Acutely Ill
Nurs 253 - Practicum 3: Advanced Nursing Care of the Acutely Ill
Nurs 254:Advanced Acute Care Concepts and Issues
Heal 240:The Environment of Health Care Delivery(on-line course).
Selected Publications (2004, Fall) Kosmoski-Goepfert, K.A. Implications of the patient safety movement on the academic preparation of nurses. www.http://141.106.45.54/nurses/units. National Patient Safety Foundation, Chicago, IL
2004, National Panel for Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Competencies. Acute Care Nurse Practitioner competencies. Washington, DC: National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties.
Extramural Grants or Awards 2007 $500.00 Integrating Procedure/Skills in NP Education, National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. Deliverable is a national skills toolkit
2007- 2008 American Association of Colleges of Nursing Academic Leadership Fellow
2003-2004. Who's Who Among Health Services Professionals. The Society of Human Services Professionals.
Editor/Reviewer/Consultant NONPF Abstract Reviewer; 1985 - present: Consulted with more than 40 health care/nursing professionals from across the United States and Canada. Topics include: effective preparation of baccalaureate nurses; baccalaureate nursing curriculum development; registered nurses job satisfaction; registered nurses work design, nursing unit culture, and the cost and quality of patient care; development of delegation, team building and leadership programs for RNs; and the measurement of: cost data, RN job satisfaction; unit task characteristics; and factors related to the retention of RNs.
Other consulting activities include the development of a nurse management course for master level nursing students and a critical care nursing current topics course.
Professional Affiliations
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF)
Co-Chair: NONPF Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Special Interest Group (2008-2009)
Sigma Theta Tau International- Delta Gamma Chapter
