Der-Fa Lu, PhD RN is Assistant Professor at The University of Iowa College of Nursing. She teaches courses in Health and Nursing Informatics. She is developing a program of research in nursing informatics with focus on 2 areas: knowledge representation and knowledge discover. She and others developed a methodology for cross-mapping validation between standardized nursing languages and SNOMED CT. She is conducting research to discover clinical nursing knowledge from patient care datasets for elderly population. She wants to use her training in both informatics and genontolgoical nursing to advance nursing science. Post-Doc in Nursing Informatics, The University of Iowa PhD in Gerontological Nursing, The University of Iowa MA in Gerontological nursing, The University of Iowa BSN, Taipei College of Medicine AND, Taipei College of Nursing
Articles
Clinical features and outcomes of 98 children and adults with dense deposit disease (with M. Moon, L. D. Lanning, Anne Marie McCarthy, and R. J. Smith), Pediatric Nephrology (Berlin, Germany) (2012)
BACKGROUND: Dense deposit disease (DDD) is an ultra-rare renal disease. METHODS: In the study reported...
Pain in dementia: Recognition and treatment (with Keela Herr), Journal of Gerontological Nursing (2012)
The presentation and management of pain in older adults with dementia are highly complicated. This...
An evaluation process for an electronic bar code medication administration information system in an acute care unit (with M. Bargren), Urologic Nursing (2009)
The purpose of this case study is to present an evaluation process and recommendations for...
Effects of a web-based course on nursing skills and knowledge learning (with Z. C. Lin and Y. J. Li), The Journal of Nursing Education (2009)
The purpose of the study was to assess the effectiveness of supplementing traditional classroom teaching...
Factors related to falls among the community-dwelling elderly (with M. Y. Chin and M. H. Wu), Hu Li Za Zhi The Journal of Nursing (2008)
The purpose of this study was to investigate falls among community elderly and the factors...