Barb King, PhD, APRN-BC

Current occupation: Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-MadisonAwarded the Certificate in Fall 2012Research Interests: Nursing care of hospitalized older adults, new walking dependence in hospitalized older adults, functional decline in hospitalized older adultsQ&A What was your research project for the Certificate? How Long-Term Care Nurses Transition Residents Admitted from Hospital Settings What role(s) did your community partner(s) play in the project (if relevant)?

Our partner assisted with disseminating information about the study to nurses employed in their setting and providing a private office space where we could conduct the focus groups in.

How might this research affect the health consumer (if relevant)?

The transitional care period between hospital to skilled nursing facility (SNF) is often a high risk time for errors to occur in the transitioning process, impacting patient outcomes and readmission rates to hospitals. Family members, older adults, and hospital healthcare providers need to have a better understanding of what nurses in skilled nursing facilities experience during the transitional care process that impact the quality of care they provide to older adults and what strategies they can use to improve the transitioning of care from hospital to SNF.

What did you learn in the program that you didn’t expect to learn?

I developed a greater appreciation of the importance of engaging stakeholders early and often during the planning phase of the study design and also when conducting the study and providing a summary of findings once the study was complete.

Name the top things learned that you will use in your research career.

1) Is the research question important to the participants and community 2) Strategies to use to engage stakeholders in the research process

How has the certificate advanced your professional goals?

My program of research is evolving into dissemination and implementation science. Completing the certificate helped me to see the path I should pursue and jump started my conceptualization of my program of research.

What other opportunities have you been provided as a result of the certificate program?

I have taken several courses offered by ICTR on dissemination and implementation science. Without completing the certificate I may not have been aware that these opportunities would help advance my program of research

What advice would you give current and future Certificate students?

Enroll in the certificate program early in your academic trajectory!

Published works

King, B. (2006). Functional Decline in Hospitalized Elders, MedSurg Nursing: The Journal of Adult Health, 15(5), 265-272.

King, B., & Bowers, B. (2011). How Nurses Decide to Ambulate Hospitalized Older Adults: Development of a Conceptual Model, The Gerontologist, 51 (6), 786-797.

King, B., Roberts, T., & Bowers, B. (2013). Nursing students’ attitudes towards older adults, Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 34(3), 272-291.

King, B., & Bowers, B. (2013). Attributing the Responsibility for Ambulating Patients: A Qualitative Study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 50, 1240-1246.

King, B., #Gilmore-Bykovskyi, A., #Roiland, R., Polnaszek, B., Bowers, B. & Kind, A.(2013). Care Delivery Consequences of Poor Quality Hospital-to-Skilled Nursing Facility Transitions: A Qualitative Study, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 61 (7), 1095-1102.

King, B., Yoon, J.,# Pecanac, K., Brown, R., & Mahoney, J. (2014). Frequency and duration of nursing care related to older patient mobility. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 46 (1), 20-27. doi:10.1111/jnu.12047.

Pecanac, K, King, B, Yoon, J, Schelfelben, T., Brown, R. (2015). Using Timed Event Sequential Data in Nursing Research. Nursing Research, 64(1), 67-71, doi: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000059.

Yoon, J., King, B., #Pecanac, K, Brown, R, Mahoney, J, and #Kuo, F. (2015). Comparison of time and motion observations and self-reports to capture mobility related nursing care activities for hospitalized older adults. Research in Gerontological Nursing. 8(3), 110-117. doi: 10.3928/19404921-20150304-02

Gilmore-Bykovskyi, A, Roberts, T., King, B., Kennelty, K., Kind, A. (In Press). Transitions from Hospital to Skilled Nursing Facilities for Persons with Dementia: A Challenging Convergence of Patient and System-level Needs. The Gerontologist.

King, B. Steege, L., Winsor, K., Vandebergh, S., Brown, C. (In Press). Getting Patients Walking: A Pilot Study of MOVIN (Mobilizing Older adult patients Via a Nurse driven systems intervention). Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

King, B. #Pecanac, K., #Krupp, A. #Leibzeit, D., Mahoney, J. (in press) Impact of Fall Prevention on Nurses and Care of Fall Risk Patients. The Gerontologist.

Levin C., Gur-Yaish N., Agmon M., Gil E., Rand D., King B., Zisberg A. (in press). Development and Psychometric Testing of a Measure of Attitudes Towards Mobility during Hospitalization (ATM-H) for Older Adults. Geriatric Nursing.

Publications in Review

King, B., Gilmore-Bykovskyi, A., Kennelty, K., Roberts, R., Mirr, J., Gehring, M., Dattalo, M., Kind., A. (In Review). “Impact of Hospital Context on Transitioning Care from Hospital to Skilled Nursing Facility: A Qualitative Study. Journal of American Geriatric Society.

Pecanac K, Dykstra J, Steege L, King B. (In Review) Multi-modal Observer Training for Hospital-Based Research. Nursing Research