Meridean L. Maas, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor Emerita, College of Nursing, the University of Iowa, received her doctorate in Sociology of Organizations from Iowa State University in 1979 and joined the University of Iowa faculty in 1983. Prior to joining the faculty, she held a number of positions in hospitals and long-term care, including administrative and clinical practice roles. Dr. Maas' areas of scholarship and teaching are Nursing Administration and Gerontological Nursing. She is currently advisor for doctoral students in Nursing Administration and in Aging, and has sponsored nine Predoctoral Fellows and nine Postdoctoral Fellows funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) and the University of Iowa Center on Aging. She also advises master's students in administration and gerontology and has chaired numerous master's theses and projects. Dr. Maas has taught in both the undergraduate and graduate programs and currently teaches courses for doctoral students. Her funded programs of research include: testing the effects of a Family Involvement in Care intervention on family members of institutionalized Alzheimer's patients, staff caregivers, and persons with AD, and Nursing Outcomes Classification research to develop, classify and validate patient outcomes that are sensitive to nursing interventions. Dr. Maas is currently conducting research with electronic clinical data, including standardized nursing data, to assess the cost effectiveness of nursing interventions on outcomes for older persons hospitalized with congestive heart failure and pneumonia. Dr. Maas is Co-Director of the John A. Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence, Co-Principal Investigator of the Iowa Geriatric Education Center grant funded by HRSA, Co-Director of the Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center (GNIRC) and Director of its Regional Research Training Core. She currently serves on four editorial boards and is a reviewer for five journals, has numerous peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters in print, and has authored or edited several books. The second edition of Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes for the Elderly was published by Mosby in January 2001. Dr. Maas received the Regents Award for Faculty Excellence at the University of Iowa in 1996/1997. In recent years, Dr. Maas and colleague Dr. Janet Specht have developed entrepreneurial projects to provide needed nurse managed LTC options for elders.
Articles
Nursing clinical documentation data retrieval for hospitalized older adults with heart failure: Part 2 (with B. J. Head, C. A. Scherb, Elizabeth A. Swanson, Sue Moorhead, D. Reed, D. M. Conley, and M. Kozel), International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classifications (2011)
PURPOSE: The study aims to discuss the implications for retrieval of nursing data and building...
Evaluation of outcome change scores for patients with pneumonia or heart failure (with C. A. Scherb, B. J. Head, M. Hertzog, Elizabeth A. Swanson, D. Reed, Sue Moorhead, D. M. Conley, M. Kozel, M. Clarke, S. Gillette, and B. Weinberg), Western journal of nursing research (2011)
This study was conducted to describe the variance in selected Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) outcome...
Most frequent nursing diagnoses, nursing interventions, and nursing-sensitive patient outcomes of hospitalized older adults with heart failure: Part 1 (with C. A. Scherb, B. J. Head, Elizabeth A. Swanson, Sue Moorhead, D. Reed, D. M. Conley, and M. Kozel), International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classifications (2011)
PURPOSE: Rank and compare the 10 most frequently documented nursing diagnoses, interventions, and patient outcomes...
Aging issues: Nursing imperatives for healthcare reform (with C. Beverly, S. G. Burger, and Janet K. Specht), Nursing Administration Quarterly (2010)
The people of the United States sent a clear message in November 2008 that they...
Measuring gerontological research intensity in schools of nursing (with Kathleen C. Buckwalter, V. S. Conn, and Toni Tripp-Reimer), Research in Gerontological Nursing (2010)
Because of the urgent need for more gerontological nursing research, it is critical for more...
Books
Challenges of measuring construct validity of nursing outcomes (with P. Kerr, Sue Moorhead, and Marion Johnson), A book of abstracts: NANDA, NIC, NOC 2004: Working Together for Quality Nursing Care: Striving Toward Harmonization, March 24-27, 2004, Chicago, Illinois. (2004)
Iowa outcomes project: Nursing outcomes classification (NOC) (with Sue Moorhead and Marion Johnson), Nursing Publications (2004)
Measuring knowledge and behavior outcomes across clinical settings (with K. M. Reeder, Sue Moorhead, and Marion Johnson), A book of abstracts: NANDA, NIC, NOC 2004: Working Together for Quality Nursing Care: Striving Toward Harmonization, March 24-27, 2004, Chicago, Illinois. (2004)
Results of testing the nursing outcomes classification: Are the measurement scales reliable and do they capture change in patient status? (with Sue Moorhead, Marion Johnson, and D. Reed), A book of abstracts: NANDA, NIC, NOC 2004: Working Together for Quality Nursing Care: Striving Toward Harmonization, March 24-27, 2004, Chicago, Illinois. (2004)
Use of the indicators for selected core NOC outcome: Similarities and differences across ten field settings (with D. Reed, Sue Moorhead, and Marion Johnson), A book of abstracts: NANDA, NIC, NOC 2004: Working Together for Quality Nursing Care: Striving Toward Harmonization, March 24-27, 2004, Chicago, Illinois. (2004)
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