Dr. Elizabeth Vandenbogaart, DNP, MSN, CNS, ACNP-BC, published her DNP Scholarly Project, titled App-Based Mindfulness Intervention to Improve Psychological Outcomes in Pretransplant Patients With Heart Failure in the April 2023 issue of Critical Care Nurse.

The article was featured as the cover article of the issue. 

Access the article here. 

Dr. Elizabeth Vandenbogaart is a board-certified acute care nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist, earning her dual master’s degree and Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2010, and 2021. Her scholarly project focused on the use of mindfulness as an intervention to improve stress, anxiety and resilience for advanced heart failure patients hospitalized awaiting heart transplantation. Her scholarly project findings were published in the Critical Care Nurse, April 2023.

Dr. Vandenbogaart has been an advanced practice nurse practitioner at the Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center for the past 13 years. As an NP III, she provides direct care to heart failure patients across the disease spectrum from new diagnosis to those requiring advanced therapies such as heart transplantation or ventricular assist devices. She manages this high-acuity specialty population across multiple care settings, such as inpatient, outpatient, and home (tele-monitoring). She contributes to new and ongoing department policy development, clinical workflow improvement strategies, new APRN and clinical staff orientation, and actively participates in the institutional APP meetings for best practice.