<strong>Evidence</strong>-<strong>Based</strong> <strong>Geriatric</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong> Protocols for Best Practice
Marie Boltz, PhD, RN, APRN-BC, is an assistant professor at New York University (NYU) where she has directed the undergraduate course in <strong>Nursing</strong> Care of Adults and Elders. Dr. Boltz is also practice director of the NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders) program, which is the only national nursing program designed to improve care of the older adult patient. Her areas of research are the geriatric care environment including measures of quality, the geriatric nurse practice environment, and the prevention of functional decline in hospitalized older adults. She has presented nationally and internationally and authored and coauthored numerous journal publications, organizational tools, and book chapters in these areas. Dr. Boltz is a John A. Hartford Foundation Claire M. Fagin fellow and the 2009–2010 American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Margretta Madden Styles Credentialing scholar. Elizabeth Capezuti, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Dr. John W. Rowe Professor in Successful Aging at the College of <strong>Nursing</strong> at NYU. She also serves as codirector for the Hartford Institute for <strong>Geriatric</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong> where she directs the research center. She is an internationally recognized geriatric nurse researcher, known for her work in improving the care of older adults by interventions and models that positively influence a health care provider’s knowledge and work environment. Her current studies focus primarily on translating effective interventions into actual practice, specifically, testing of new technologies for promoting independence and system change approaches to transform provider behavior. A recipient of more than $8 million in research and training grants, she has disseminated the findings of 35 funded projects in four coedited books and more than a hundred peer reviewed articles and book chapters. Dr. Capezuti received her doctoral degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. She joined the NYU faculty in 2003 and was promoted to professor in 2008. She has also been on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of <strong>Nursing</strong> from 1984 to 2000 where she received the 1995 Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. From 2000 to 2003, she held the Independence Foundation—Wesley Woods Chair in Gerontologic <strong>Nursing</strong> at Emory University. She is a fellow of the American Academy of <strong>Nursing</strong>, the Gerontological Society of America, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the New York Academy of Medicine. Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the dean of the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. She received her bachelor’s degree from Skidmore College, her master’s and doctoral degrees from Boston College, and her <strong>Geriatric</strong> Nurse Practitioner Post-Master’s Certificate from NYU. Dr. Fulmer’s program of research focuses on acute care of the elderly and, specifically, elder abuse and neglect. She has received the status of fellow in the American Academy of <strong>Nursing</strong>, the Gerontological Society of America, and the New York Academy of Medicine. She completed a Brookdale National Fellowship and is a distinguished practitioner of the National Academies of Practice. Dr. Fulmer was the first nurse to be elected to the board of the American <strong>Geriatric</strong>s Society and the first nurse to serve as the president of the Gerontological Society of America. DeAnne Zwicker, DrNP, APRN, BC is an ANCC certified adult nurse practitioner and is currently working as independent geriatric consultant. She completed her doctor of nursing practice (DrNP) in 2010 with a primary focus as a clinical scientist and secondary in education at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Her dissertation was entitled Preparedness, Appraisal of Behaviors, and Role Strain in Dementia Family Caregivers and the Caregiver Perspective of Preparedness and was a mixed-method study. She was a coeditor and chapter author for the fourth edition of <strong>Evidence</strong>-based <strong>Geriatric</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong> Protocols (in press) as well as the third edition (2008), and managing editor for the second edition (2003). She has served as the content editor of www.ConsultGeriRN.org since its inception. She recently instituted the NICHE program at Washington Hospital Center, which was awarded national NICHE designation. Ms. Zwicker has been a registered nurse for 32 years, with clinical practice experience as a geriatric nurse practitioner since 1992 in primary care, subacute care, longterm care, and clinical expert consultant in geriatrics. She has also taught nursing at the graduate level at NYU and Drexel University. Her areas of interest in geriatrics include proactive interventions in older adults, including prevention of adverse drug events and iatrogenesis in persons with dementia and prevention and/or early recognition of delirium. Ardis O’Meara, MA manages <strong>Geriatric</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong>, Heart and Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care, and other geriatric nursing books. Her experience includes cardiology and research.
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