Nancy Donaldson, RN, DNS, FAAN
Professor Emeritus
Physiological Nursing
School of Nursing

Education & Training

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• D.N.S. Nursing University of California, San Francisco 1988
• Ph.D. Nursing University of California, San Francisco 1988

Grants and Projects

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• CalNOC Partners to Reduce Patient Falls Project, NIH, 2002-2007
• Unit Level Nurse Workload Impacts on Patient Safety, NIH, 2001-2004
• Improving Nursing Practice through Research Utilization, NIH, 1990-1993
• Family Adaptation During the Fourth Trimester, NIH, 1986-1900
• Family Adaptation During the Fourth Trimester, NIH, 1986-1900

Publications (32)

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Safety ManagementAccidental FallsNursing Service, HospitalPersonnel Staffing and SchedulingPreventive MedicineNursing Staff, HospitalPressure UlcerWorkloadMedication ErrorsQuality Assurance, Health CareNurse's RoleObservationPatient SafetyBenchmarkingQuality Indicators, Health Care

• Improving hospital patient falls: leveraging staffing characteristics and processes of care.
  The Journal of nursing administration 2015 Aydin C, Donaldson N, Aronow HU, Fridman M, Brown DS
• Improving medication administration safety: using naïve observation to assess practice and guide improvements in process and outcomes.
  Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality 2014 Donaldson N, Aydin C, Fridman M, Foley M
• Modeling hospital-acquired pressure ulcer prevalence on medical-surgical units: nurse workload, expertise, and clinical processes of care.
  Health services research 2014 Aydin C, Donaldson N, Stotts NA, Fridman M, Brown DS
• Predictors of unit-level medication administration accuracy: microsystem impacts on medication safety.
  The Journal of nursing administration 2014 Donaldson N, Aydin C, Fridman M
• Medication administration accuracy: using clinical observation and review of patient records to assess safety and guide performance improvement.
  Journal of evaluation in clinical practice 2014 Gunningberg L, Pöder U, Donaldson N, Leo Swenne C

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• Measuring nurses' impact on health care quality: progress, challenges, and future directions.
  Medical care 2013 Beck SL, Weiss ME, Ryan-Wenger N, Donaldson NE, Aydin C, Towsley GL, Gardner W
• The value of reducing hospital-acquired pressure ulcer prevalence: an illustrative analysis.
  The Journal of nursing administration 2013 Spetz J, Brown DS, Aydin C, Donaldson N
• Eliminating hospital-acquired pressure ulcers: within our reach.
  Advances in skin & wound care 2013 Stotts NA, Brown DS, Donaldson NE, Aydin C, Fridman M
• Performance measurement—A strategic imperative and a call to action An overview of forthcoming papers from the American Academy of Nursing Expert Panel on Quality.
  Nursing Outlook 2011 Gerri Lamb, Nancy Donaldson
• Exploring variation in pressure ulcer prevalence in Sweden and the USA: benchmarking in action.
  Journal of evaluation in clinical practice 2011 Gunningberg L, Donaldson N, Aydin C, Idvall E
• The association of shift-level nurse staffing with adverse patient events.
  The Journal of nursing administration 2011 Patrician PA, Loan L, McCarthy M, Fridman M, Donaldson N, Bingham M, Brosch LR
• Nursing-sensitive benchmarks for hospitals to gauge high-reliability performance.
  Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality 2010 Brown DS, Donaldson N, Burnes Bolton L, Aydin CE
• Impact of California mandated acute care hospital nurse staffing ratios: a literature synthesis.
  Policy, politics & nursing practice 2010 Donaldson N, Shapiro S
• Surprise wire.
  AORN journal 2010 Pearl JM, Donaldson NE
• Benchmarking for small hospitals: size didn't matter!
  Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality 2010 Brown DS, Aydin CE, Donaldson N, Fridman M, Sandhu M
• Rapid response teams seen through the eyes of the nurse.
  The American journal of nursing 2010 Shapiro SE, Donaldson NE, Scott MB
• Leading successful rapid response teams: A multisite implementation evaluation.
  The Journal of nursing administration 2009 Donaldson N, Shapiro S, Scott M, Foley M, Spetz J
• Quartile dashboards: translating large data sets into performance improvement priorities.
  Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality 2008 Brown DS, Aydin CE, Donaldson N
• How many nurses per patient? Measurements of nurse staffing in health services research.
  Health services research 2008 Spetz J, Donaldson N, Aydin C, Brown DS
• Evaluating the impact of partnerships to improve clinical quality.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2007 Donaldson N, Horn SD, Edwards JC, Miller G, Gassaway J, Delbanco SF, Belden G, Hagan M
• Mandated nurse staffing ratios in California: a comparison of staffing and nursing-sensitive outcomes pre- and postregulation.
  Policy, politics & nursing practice 2007 Burnes Bolton L, Aydin CE, Donaldson N, Brown DS, Sandhu M, Fridman M, Aronow HU
• The impact of nursing interventions: overview of effective interventions, outcomes, measures, and priorities for future research.
  Medical care research and review : MCRR 2007 Bolton LB, Donaldson NE, Rutledge DN, Bennett C, Brown DS
• Building Our Understanding of the Impact on Mandatory Staffing Ratios: Response to Dunton and Schumann.
  Policy Politics & Nursing Practice 2005 Nancy E. Donaldson, Diane S. Brown, Linda Burnes Bolton
• Impact of California's licensed nurse-patient ratios on unit-level nurse staffing and patient outcomes.
  Policy, politics & nursing practice 2005 Donaldson N, Bolton LB, Aydin C, Brown D, Elashoff JD, Sandhu M
• Leveraging nurse-related dashboard benchmarks to expedite performance improvement and document excellence.
  The Journal of nursing administration 2005 Donaldson N, Brown DS, Aydin CE, Bolton ML, Rutledge DN
• Creating and analyzing a statewide nursing quality measurement database.
  Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing 2004 Aydin CE, Bolton LB, Donaldson N, Brown DS, Buffum M, Elashoff JD, Sandhu M
• Outcomes of adoption: measuring evidence uptake by individuals and organizations.
  Worldviews on evidence-based nursing 2004 Donaldson NE, Rutledge DN, Ashley J
• Nurse staffing and patient perceptions of nursing care.
  The Journal of nursing administration 2003 Bolton LB, Aydin CE, Donaldson N, Brown DS, Nelson MS, Harms D
• Tips for teaching quality concepts to international audiences.
  Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality 2002 Brown DS, Donaldson N
• Improving nursing conditions.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2002 Donaldson N, Hirsch J
• Nurse Staffing in California Hospitals 1998-2000: Findings from the California Nursing Outcome Coalition Database Project.
  Policy Politics & Nursing Practice 2001 Nancy E. Donaldson, Diane Storer Brown, Carolyn E. Aydin
• Stroke outcomes: A consumer perspective.
  Topics in stroke rehabilitation 1995 Donaldson NE