Office Phone 414-288-3855

E-mail Address marianne.weiss@marquette.edu

Specialization

• Associate Professor
• Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, St Joseph/Sister Rosalie Klein Professor of Women’s Health

Highest Degree/School

DNSc

Brief Statement of Scholarly Interests

My program of research has been focused on the discharge transition and continuum of care for mothers and their newborns, with studies and papers that address care management systems, readiness for discharge and post-discharge follow up care and quality of care in women’s services. The central concept in recent research has been readiness for discharge.  My focus has expanded from the postpartum population to research on predictors and outcomes of readiness for hospital discharge in adult medial surgical patients and parents of hospitalized children, in addition to postpartum patients.  Measures of quality of discharge teaching and patient perception of readiness for discharge have been developed and tested.  Within the postpartum population, I have begun to explore the trajectory of postpartum weight management and the time of opportunity in the interconceptional periods to promote healthy weight management during a woman’s childbearing years.

Descriptive Titles of Courses Recently Taught

• NURS 300:  Nursing Knowledge Development
• NURS 200:  Theoretical Foundations of Nursing

Scholarly Publications

1991 Weiss, M.E., Pue, A., & Smith, J.  Laboratory and hospital testing of infrared tympanic thermometers.  Journal of Clinical Engineering, 16(2), 137-144.

1991 Weiss, M.E.  Tympanic infrared thermometry for fullterm and preterm neonates.  Clinical Pediatrics, 30(4) Supplement, 42-45.

1991 Weiss, M.E., & Armstrong, M.  Mother's preferences for night-time care of the neonate.  JOGNN, 20, 290-295.

1993 Fawcett, J., & Weiss, M.  Cross-cultural adaptation to cesarean birth.  Western Journal of Nursing, 15(3), 282-297.

1993 Tulman, L., Fawcett, J., & Weiss, M.  The inventory of functional status - fathers:  Development and psychometric testing.  Journal of Nurse Midwifery, 38(5), 276-282.

1993 Weiss, M.E., & Teplick, F.  Linking perinatal standards, documentation and quality monitoring.  Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing, 7(2), 18-27.

1994 Turner, B., & Weiss, M.E.  How to make research happen:  Working with staff.  JOGNN, 23(4), 345-349.

1994 Weiss, M.E., Hastings, W., Holly, D., & Craig, D.  Using the Roy Adaptation Model in practice:  Nurses' perspectives.  Nursing Science Quarterly, 7(2), 80-86.

1994 Weiss, M.E., Poeltler, D., & Gocka, I.  Infrared tympanic thermometry for neonatal temperature assessment.  JOGNN, 23, 798-804.

1994 Weiss, M.E., & Richards, M.T. Accuracy and precision of axillary temperature measurement in term and preterm neonates.  Neonatal Network, 13(8), 35-40.

1995 Weiss, M.E., & Adams, A.  Telephonic nursing: Empowering patients at risk for preterm birth.  Advanced Practice Nursing Quarterly, 1(3), 35-40.

1998 Weiss, M.E, Sitzer, V., Clarke, M., Haley, K., Richards, M., & Gocka, I.  A comparison of temperature measurements using three ear thermometers. Applied Nursing Research, 11(4), 158-166.

1998 Weiss, M.E.  Case management as a tool for clinical integration.  Advanced Practice Nursing Quarterly, 4(1), 9-15.

1998 Stichler, J.F., Weiss, M.,  & Wight, N.E. (1998).  Examining the “cost” of substance abuse in pregnancy:  Patient outcomes and resource utilization.  Journal of Perinatology, 18(5), 384-388.

1999 Weiss M. Case management:  Transforming to meet the demands of an evolving healthcare system.  Disease Management and Health Outcomes, 6(5),  253-260. 

2000 Stichler, J.F & Weiss, M.E.  Through the eye of the beholder:  Multiple perspectives on quality in women’s health care.  Quality Management in Health Care, 8(4), 1-13.

2001 Stichler, J.F & Weiss, M.E.  Through the eye of the beholder:  Multiple perspectives on quality in women’s health care.  Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 15(3), 59-74. (Reprinted from Quality Management in Health Care)

2002 Weiss, M.E. Saks, N.P., & Harris, S. Resolving the uncertainty of preterm labor symptoms: Women's experiences with the onset of preterm labor.  JOGNN, 31, 66-76

2003 Fawcett. J., Aber, C., & Weiss, M.  Teaching, practice, and research: An integrative approach benefiting students and faculty.  Journal of Professional Nursing, 19(1), 17-21.

2004 Weiss, M.E., Ryan, P., Lokken, L., & Nelson, M. Length of stay after vaginal delivery:  Sociodemographic and readiness-for-discharge factors. Birth, 31(2), 93-101.

2004 Weiss, M., Cronk, C.E., Mahkorn, S., Glysch, R., Zirbel, S. The Wisconsin Fetal Alcohol Screening Project.  Wisconsin Medical Journal, 103(5), 53-60.

2005 Fawcett, J., Aber, C., & Weiss, M., Haussler, S., Myers, S.T., King, C., Newton, J., & Silva, V.  Adaptation to Cesarean Birth.  Implementation of a Multi-Site Study.  Nursing Science Quarterly, 18(3), 204-210

2006 Weiss, M., Ryan, P, & Lokken, L. Validity and reliability of the Readiness for Discharge after Birth Scale.  Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 35(1), 34-45.

2006 Hewitt, J.B., Leuthner, S.B., Weiss, M. et al.  The National Children’s Study Waukesha County, Wisconsin Vanguard Center.  Wisconsin Medical Journal, 105(2), 55-58.

2006 Weiss, M.E. & Piacentine, L.B.  Psychometric properties of the Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale.  Journal of Nursing Measurement, 14(3), 163-180.

2007 Weiss, M, Piacentine, L., Lokken, L. et al.  Perceived readiness for hospital discharge in adult medical-surgical patients. Clinical Nurse Specialist, 21(1), 31-42.

Extramural Grants or Awards

2006 Callon-Leonard Award - Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care’s highest honor ‘awarded in recognition for outstanding efforts and contributions on behalf of mothers, infants, and families in Wisconsin’.

1994

Title: An exploratory study of women’s experiences with the onset of preterm labor.

Role:  Principal Investigator

Source: AWHONN  

1996

Title: Length of stay after vaginal delivery: Maternal and neonatal outcomes and compensatory post-discharge services. 

Role:  Principal Investigator 

Source:  Perinatal Foundation 

1999

Title: Duplications and Gaps in Postpartum Follow-up in the City of Milwaukee.

Role:  Principal Investigator 

Source:  Perinatal Foundation 

1999-2003        

Title: Wisconsin Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Screening Project

Role: Co-Investigator; Principal Investigator for Marquette University subcontract

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention :  Cooperative agreement with State of Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services

2005     

Title: National Children’s Study Waukesha Vanguard Center.

Role: Co-Investigator; Principal Investigator for Marquette University subcontract

Source: NICHD 

2005     

Title: Postpartum Weight Management  

Role: Principal Investigator 

Source: Marquette University College of Nursing Regner Award 

Consultant

• Partnership Grant awarded to Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care: Consultant for development of statewide perinatal database application and statewide perinatal quality improvement training

Professional Affiliations

• Sigma Theta Tau
• AWHONN
• Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care:  Chair, Perinatal Data Committee