Her research impacts policy and practice through wide dissemination in the lay press as well as changes in emergency department triage practices and patient education.Īndrea Driscoll, BN, MN, NP, PhD, FAHA, FCSANZ, FACNPĭeakin University School of Nursing & Midwiferyĭr. DeVon’s innovative discoveries have further propelled symptom science forward at the international level through her collaborations in Rwanda, Ireland, and Australia. Her ACS Symptom Checklist has been used by investigators in Australia, Brazil, Iran, Lebanon, the Philippines, Taiwan, and the UK. Her research has resulted in both a sexbased conceptual model of symptoms and an ACS symptoms instrument.
DeVon partnered with an expert in Traditional Chinese Medicine to design a study to test the feasibility of acupuncture to reduce the pain and symptoms of stable angina. Her recent national study on symptoms of ACS revealed that nearly one-third of patients report persistent symptoms of angina six months following hospital discharge for ACS. Results from her various studies show chest pain is a sensitive and specific symptom for ACS but up to 40% of women do not experience it, putting them at risk for undiagnosed heart disease and increased mortality. DeVon’s research has focused on multiple aspects of the symptoms of acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Delaney has participated as a primary investigator, investigator, director, or lead in over 45 research studies totaling over $135 million in funding.ĭr. Over the span of her career as a nurse, professor, and Dean, Dr. Delaney was an inaugural appointee to the US Health Information Technology Policy Committee, Office of the National Coordinator, US Department of Health and Human Services. These measures, normalized to national nursing and health care standards, became part of the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes, which are developed to provide a definitive standard for identifying clinical information in electronic reports. She led a research team to develop the Nursing Management Minimum Data Set to capture the contextual variables of personnel and environment. Her team published the first knowledge discovery work in nursing related to “big data” and predictive modeling.
Delaney has dedicated her career to data and information technology standards for nursing, health care, and interprofessional practice and education. University of Minnesota School of Nursingĭr. Most recently, she provided policy strategies on America’s fight against the Opioid Epidemic at the Scholars Strategy Network National Leadership Retreat in Washington, DC, USA.Ĭonnie W.
She has contributed to position statements on pain management for patients with addictive disease from the American Pain Society, College on Problems of Drug Dependence, and the American Society of Pain Management Nurses. Compton has served as an expert on federal agency panels for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency, the US Department of Justice, Food and Drug Administration, National Institute of Drug Abuse, Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service, and the Drug Enforcement Agency. A Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and member of the International Association in the Study of Pain and College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Dr.
Her current work with chronic pain patients evaluates strategies to successfully taper them off opioids, determine if such tapers result in improved pain perception, and evaluate the role of responsible opioid prescribing to minimize untoward outcomes in this population. Compton explores the phenomena of opioid-induced hyperalgesia and addiction in patients on opioid therapy for the treatment of chronic pain. University of Pennsylvania School of Nursingĭr. Associate Professor, van Ameringen Endowed Chair
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