Jill Scott-Cawiezell is a Professor and the Area Chair for the Systems and Practice Area of Study. She received her doctorate degree from the University of Missouri with a focus on health systems. She has recently completed an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality study exploring Technology to Improve Medication Safety in Nursing Homes. She has spent many years as a funded researcher for AHRQ. Additionally, she has served as a research consultant to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services guiding organizational capacity building challenges related to quality improvement and patient safety. Dr. Scott-Cawiezell's research interests include patient safety issues related to the organization across healthcare settings, organizational capacity building for the creation and sustainment of improvement across healthcare settings, and the challenges of providing healthcare in resource scarce environments in the developing world. Dr. Scott-Cawiezell is a member of the Academy of Nursing, American Nurses Association, Sigma Theta Tau, and the American Organization of Nurse Executives. Her primary area of nursing practice has been in hospital leadership roles, with clinical experience in the intensive care unit and working with impoverished children in the developing world. PhD in Nursing and Healthcare Systems, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri MSN in Nursing Administration, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri BSN, Iowa Wesleyan College, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
Articles
Keeping patients safe in healthcare organizations: A structuration theory of safety culture (with Patricia Groves and R. J. Meisenbach), Journal of Advanced Nursing (2011)
groves p.s., meisenbach r.j. & scott-cawiezell j. (2011) Keeping patients safe in healthcare organizations: a...
Achieving quality improvement in the nursing home: Influence of nursing leadership on communication and teamwork (with A. Vogelsmeier), Journal of Nursing Care Quality (2011)
Leadership, communication, and teamwork are essential elements of organizational capacity and are linked to organizational...
The use of bedside electronic medical record to improve quality of care in nursing facilities: A qualitative analysis (with M. J. Rantz, G. Alexander, C. Galambos, M. K. Flesner, A. Vogelsmeier, L. Hicks, M. Zwygart-Stauffacher, and L. Greenwald), Computers, Informatics, Nursing (2011)
It appears that the implementation and use of a bedside electronic medical record in nursing...
Guiding inpatient quality improvement: A systematic review of lean and six sigma (with J. M. Glasgow and P. J. Kaboli), Joint Commission Journal on Quality & Patient Safety (2010)
Background: Two popular quality improvement (QI) approaches in health care are Lean and Six Sigma....
Influencing leadership perceptions of patient safety through just culture training (with A. Vogelsmeier, B. Miller, and S. Griffith), Journal of Nursing Care Quality (2010)
There are differences in perceptions of safety culture between healthcare leaders and staff. Evidence suggests...
Contributions to Books
Organizational climate of staff working conditions and safety-An integrative model (with P. W. Stone, M. I. Harrison, P. Feldman, M. Linzer, T. Peng, D. Roblin, N. Warren, and E. S. Williams), Advances in patient safety: From research to implementation (2005)
Objectives: This project sought to compare measures of organizational climate in ongoing patient safety studies,...