Mary Dellefield
Assistant Clinical Professor
Community Health Systems
School of Nursing

Publications (32)

Top publication keywords:
Personnel ManagementNurse's RoleGeriatric NursingHomes for the AgedNursing HomesSkilled Nursing FacilitiesLong-Term CareNurse AdministratorsLeadershipNursing ProcessNursesNursing StaffPressure UlcerNursing AssessmentPersonnel Staffing and Scheduling

• Assessment of Nursing Staff Learning Needs Around Person-Centered Risk Management in Nursing Homes.
  Journal of gerontological nursing 2023 Behrens LL, Madrigal C, Dellefield ME
• Nursing Leadership - Transforming the Work Environment in Nursing Homes.
  The Nursing clinics of North America 2022 Dellefield ME, Madrigal C
• Nursing Surveillance in Long-Term Care.
  Journal of gerontological nursing 2021 Dellefield ME
• Using the Observational Teamwork Assessment in Surgery Instrument to Measure RN Teamwork During Cardiac Surgery: Lessons Learned.
  Journal of nursing care quality 2021 Dellefield ME, Verkaaik CA
• A Call to the CMS: Mandate Adequate Professional Nurse Staffing in Nursing Homes.
  The American journal of nursing 2021 Kolanowski A, Cortes TA, Mueller C, Bowers B, Boltz M, Bakerjian D, Harrington C, Popejoy L, Vogelsmeier A, Wallhagen M, Fick D, Batchelor M, Harris M, Palan-Lopez R, Dellefield M, Mayo A, Woods DL, …

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• Nursing surveillance and immediate jeopardy in Veteran Health Administration community living centers unannounced survey program 2018 to 2019.
  Nursing outlook 2021 Dellefield ME, Madrigal CB, Verkaaik C, Close J
• Appropriate Nurse Staffing Levels for U.S. Nursing Homes.
  Health services insights 2020 Harrington C, Dellefield ME, Halifax E, Fleming ML, Bakerjian D
• Examining the Beliefs of Skilled Nursing Facility Directors of Nursing Regarding BSN Completion and the Impact of Nurse Leader Education on Patient Outcomes.
  The Journal of nursing administration 2019 Holle CL, Sundean LJ, Dellefield ME, Wong J, Lopez RP
• Virtual Breakthrough Series, Part 1: Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection and Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers in the Veterans Health Administration.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2016 Zubkoff L, Neily J, King BJ, Dellefield ME, Krein S, Young-Xu Y, Boar S, Mills PD
• Recommendations From the International Consortium on Professional Nursing Practice in Long-Term Care Homes.
  Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2015 McGilton KS, Bowers BJ, Heath H, Shannon K, Dellefield ME, Prentice D, Siegel EO, Meyer J, Chu CH, Ploeg J, Boscart VM, Corazzini KN, Anderson RA, Mueller CA
• Comprehensive Care Plan Development Using Resident Assessment Instrument Framework: Past, Present, and Future Practices.
  Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) 2015 Dellefield ME, Corazzini K
• The Relationship Between Registered Nurses and Nursing Home Quality: An Integrative Review (2008-2014).
  Nursing economic$ 2015 Dellefield ME, Castle NG, McGilton KS, Spilsbury K
• Pressure ulcer prevention in nursing homes: nurse descriptions of individual and organization level factors.
  Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) 2013 Dellefield ME, Magnabosco JL
• Quality assurance and performance improvement in nursing homes: using evidence-based protocols to observe nursing care processes in real time.
  Journal of nursing care quality 2013 Dellefield ME, Kelly A, Schnelle JF
• Supporting and promoting personhood in long term care settings: contextual factors.
  International journal of older people nursing 2012 Siegel EO, Anderson RA, Calkin J, Chu CH, Corazzini KN, Dellefield ME, Goodman C
• Observing how RNs use clinical time in a nursing home: a pilot study.
  Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) 2012 Dellefield ME, Harrington C, Kelly A
• Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care: lessons learned from a cohort of nursing home residents with advanced Huntington disease.
  The Journal of neuroscience nursing : journal of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses 2011 Dellefield ME, Ferrini R
• Provide a helping hand to patients with upper extremity prostheses.
  Nursing 2011 Velez DJ, Dellefield ME
• The pivotal role of the director of nursing in nursing homes.
  Nursing administration quarterly 2010 Siegel EO, Mueller C, Anderson KL, Dellefield ME
• Best practices in nursing homes. Clinical supervision, management, and human resource practices.
  Research in gerontological nursing 2008 Dellefield ME
• Nursing staff descriptions of clinical supervision and management inVeterans Affairs-affiliated nursing homes.
  Journal of nursing care quality 2008 Dellefield ME
• The work of the RN Minimum Data Set coordinator in its organizational context.
  Research in gerontological nursing 2008 Dellefield ME
• Implementation of the resident assessment instrument/minimum data set in the nursing home as organization: implications for quality improvement in RN clinical assessment.
  Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) 2007 Dellefield ME
• Self-monitoring of a stress reduction technique using wrist-worn counters.
  Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality 2007 Bormann JE, Smith TL, Shively M, Dellefield ME, Gifford AL
• Organizational correlates of the risk-adjusted pressure ulcer prevalence and subsequent survey deficiency citation in California nursing homes.
  Research in nursing & health 2006 Dellefield ME
• Using the Resource Utilization Groups (RUG-III) system as a staffing tool in nursing homes.
  Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) 2006 Dellefield ME
• Interdisciplinary care planning and the written care plan in nursing homes: a critical review.
  The Gerontologist 2006 Dellefield ME
• Prevalence rate of pressure ulcers in California nursing homes: using the OSCAR database to develop a risk-adjustment model.
  Journal of gerontological nursing 2004 Dellefield ME
• The relationship between nurse staffing in nursing homes and quality indicators.
  Journal of gerontological nursing 2000 Dellefield ME
• Resident autonomy as impacted by the internal environment of an organization.
  Director (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1998 Dellefield ME
• Informational needs and approaches for early cancer detection in the elderly.
  Seminars in oncology nursing 1988 Dellefield ME
• Caring for the elderly patient with cancer.
  Oncology nursing forum 1986 Dellefield ME