Judith
Gedney Baggs, Ph.D, RN, FAAN
 |
Senior
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Currently accepting Ph.D. students. |
"My passion in nursing is care for adult ICU patients, how to improve that care by improving the work of the ICU care provider team, with nurses, physicians, other providers, families and patients working together. My current research interest is concerned with how decision making could be improved when patients are most critically ill and decisions about limitation of treatment are considered. I have data from a 4-year study of four adult ICUs that I hope to disseminate through publications. I am dedicated to excellence in my role as editor of Research in Nursing & Health and hope to involve more faculty and students in achieving that excellence."
Education
1990 PhD University
of Rochester School of Nursing, Rochester, New York
1984 MS in medical-surgical nursing, cardiopulmonary specialization, University
of Rochester
1981 BS in nursing, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
1975 AS in nursing, Northern Essex Community College
1964 BA in English, Reed College, Portland, OR
Research
ICU Culture and Problematic Treatment Limitation Cases. funded by National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), 2000-2004. $677,218. Principal Investigator.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Intensive Care, Submitted to Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH); funded by National Institute of Nursing Research(NIHR), NIH, ROI NR03848, 1994-1997. $555,463. Principal Investigator.
Publications
Baggs, J. G., Norton, S. A., Schmitt, M., Dombeck, M., Sellers, C. R., Quinn, J. R. (in press). Intensive care unit cultures and end-of-life decision making. Journal of Critical Care.
Baggs, J. G. (2007). Prognostic information provided during family meetings in the ICU. (editorial). Critical Care Medicine, 35, 646-647.
Baggs, J. G. (2007). Nurse-physician collaboration in intensive care units.(editorial). Critical Care Medicine, 35, 641-642.
Baggs, J. G., Dombeck, M., Quinn, J. R., Norton, S. A., Schmitt, M., &Sellers, C. R. (2004). Limitations of treatment decision making in the ICU: An ethnographic study (symposium abstracts). 2004 Congress Proceedings: National Congress on the State of the Science in Nursing Research , pp . 80-85.
Baggs, J. G., Norton, S. A., Schmitt, M. H., & Sellers, C. R. (2004). The dying patient in the ICU: Role of the interdisciplinary team. Critical Care Clinics of North America , 20 , 525-540.
Baggs, J.G. (2002). End-of-life care for older adults in ICU's. Annual Review of Nursing Research, 20, 181-229.
Baggs, J.G., & Schmitt, M.H. (2000). Problematic end-of-life decisions in intensive care: Curent research base and directions for the future. Nursing Outlook, 48, 158-164.
Baggs, J.G., & Mick, D.J. (2000). Collaboration: A tool to address complex ethical issues for elderly intensive care unit patients near the end of life. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 26 (9), 41-47.
Baggs, J.G., Schmitt, M.H., Mushlin, A.I., Mitchell, P.H., Eldredge,D.H., Oakes, D., & Hutson, A.D. (1999). The association between nurse-physician collaboration and patient outcomes in three intensive care units. Critical Care Medicine.
Baggs, J.G., Schmitt,
M.H., Mushlin, A.I., Eldredge, D.H., Oakes, D., & Hutson, A.D. (1997).
Nurse-physician collaboration and satisfaction with the decision-making
process in three critical care units. American Journal of Critical
Care, 6, 393-399.