Professor Emerita Kathleen Buckwalter, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the former Director of the John A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, and Associate Director of the National Health Law and Policy Center at the UI College of Law. A prolific researcher of issues affecting the elderly, Dr. Buckwalter's work has focused on improving mental health services and providing community-based care for chronically ill older persons. Her specific clinical and research interests are in the area of geriatric mental health. Dr. Buckwalter's research has been funded by several branches of the NIH, including the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Nursing Research, and the National Institute of Mental Health, as well as numerous private foundations. She has written extensively in the field of gerontology, authoring over 250 articles and 80 chapters, and has edited eight books, the most recent being Swanson, E. A., Tripp-Reimer, T., & Buckwalter, K. C. (Eds.). (2001). Health promotion and disease prevention in the older adult: Interventions and recommendations. New York: Springer Publishing Co., and Maas, M., Buckwalter, K. C., Hardy, M., Tripp-Reimer, T., Titler, M., & Specht, J. (Eds.). (2001). Nursing care of older adults: Diagnosis, outcomes, and interventions. St. Louis: Mosby. In 1999, Dr. Buckwalter received the Distinguished Contribution to Research Award from the Midwest Nursing Research Society and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine. In 2001, she was the recipient of the American Psychiatric Nurses Associationn Excellence in Research Award, and the first recipient of the National Gerontological Nursing Association Board of Directors Award. Currently, Dr. Buckwalter serves on numerous review committees, editorial boards, and advisory groups including: the American Psychiatric Nursing Association's Geropsychiatric/Long Term Care Council; the American Academy of Nursing Expert Panel on Aging, Long Term Care Policy Committee, the National Advisory Board for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's Hartford Gerontology Project; the American Nurses Foundation Board of Trustees; the Long-Term Care Task Force and Polisher Awards Committee of the Gerontological Society of America; and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Committee on Aging. Current Research: · Evidence-Based Practice: Acute Pain Management in the Elderly. Funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). · Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center. Funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). · Strengthening Geriatric Education and Training in Iowa. Funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. · Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence. Funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation. PhD in Nursing, University of Illinois- Chicago MA in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing BSN, The University of Iowa
Articles
Lessons learned in recruitment and retention of stroke survivors (with N. Hadidi, R. Lindquist, and C. Rangen), The Journal of neuroscience nursing (2012)
Recruitment and retention are considered among the most challenging steps in the research process. This...
Filling the void in geriatric mental health: The Geropsychiatric Nursing Collaborative as a model for change (with C. Beck, P. M. Dudzik, and L. K. Evans), Nursing outlook (2011)
Mental health for older adults is a looming public health problem. Yet, geriatric mental health...
Responding to poor-quality care during research in nursing homes (with M. R. Krause, J. L. Palmer, and B. J. Bowers), Research in gerontological nursing (2011)
For nurse researchers, responding appropriately to resident abuse is straightforward: The abuse must be reported....
Depression training for nurses: evaluation of an innovative program (with Marianne Smith, K. M. Johnson, and L. L. Seydel), Research in Gerontological Nursing (2010)
This article describes evaluation results related to a CD-based depression training program that incorporates the...