M. Katherine Crabtree, DNSc., FAAN, APRN, BC
 |
Professor,
Advanced Practice Nursing and DNP |
"My passion is working with adults who are coping with chronic illness to maintain their health. My goal is to improve the quality of care for adults in primary care settings and promote the role of advanced practice nurses, specifically the nurse practitioner. I am enthusiastic about the opportunities for change in the delivery of health care as we collaborate with other professions to create a new health care system to better serve the complex needs of our patients today and tomorrow. I work with master’s and doctoral students on scholarly clinical inquiry. I enjoy teaching the International Student Seminar and hope to assist students to become leaders in improving the health of people around the world."
EDUCATION
University of California, San Francisco, DNCs
TEACHING
"I helped develop and am faculty in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program. I also teach an International Student Seminar (for international PhD students and scholars) devoted to research critique in their areas of interest. The master’s courses I teach are on advanced practice roles and primary care management of adults for students enrolled in the advanced practice specialties."
RESEARCH
"I am not currently engaged in funded research. I mentor master’s students’ research projects. I have previously served as co-investigator on federally funded studies. The topics of my previous research include research utilization; practice patterns of NP students across four universities; improving nurses’ critical thinking and nurses’ caring behaviors for dying patients. I have used diabetes self-efficacy and social support to predict self care and developed and tested an exercise intervention for type 2 diabetics. My work is primarily quantitative, descriptive and predictive. I have conducted research within nursing and with other disciplines using a variety of designs and methods including instrument development and translation."
PRACTICE
"I practice as an Adult Nurse Practitioner making housecalls to elderly and homebound patients whether they are in private residences, assisted living, nursing homes or foster care."
PUBLICATIONS
Allan JD. Stanley J. Crabtree MK. Werner KE. Swenson M. Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework: the nursing perspective. (2005). Journal of Professional Nursing. 21(5):259-67.
Crabtree, K.& Hunter, A. (2005). Advance Practice Nursing and Global Health. In J. Stanley’s (Ed.) Advance Practice Nursing. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, pp 351-373.
Daodee, M., Crabtree, K., and Vandenbergh, R. (2005). Improving Critical Thinking Ability Through Cooperative Learning. Journal of Thai Nursing Council, Aug. 2005. Published in Thai and English.
Hersh, W., Crabtree, K., Hickham, D., Sacharek, L., Friedman, C., Tidmarsh, P., Moesback, C., & Kramer, D. (2002). Factors Associated with Success for Searching MEDLINE and Applying Evidence to Answer Clinical Questions. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Marion, L., Viens, D., Crabtree, K. et al. (2003). The Practice Doctorate—Future or Fringe? Medscape article available at www.medscape.com/viewarticle/453247 One of the top 10 articles of year).
National Organization Nurse Practitioner Faculties and
The American Association of Colleges of
Nursing (2002). Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Competencies in Specialty
Areas: Adult, Family, Gerontological, Pediatric, and Women’s
Health. Washington DC; HRSA 00-0532(P) Pp 1-51.
Crabtree, M.K., (2002). (Ed.) Introduction: Challenges Ahead. Advanced Practice Nursing: Building Curriculum for Quality Nurse Practitioner Education. Washington DC: National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. Pp. 1-5.
Crabtree, K., & Pruitt, R. (Eds.) (2002). Advanced
Nursing Practice: Building Curriculum for
Quality Nurse Practitioner Education. Washington DC: NONPF.
Crabtree, K. (2000). (Ed.) Introduction. Teaching Clinical Decision-making in Advanced Nursing Practice. Washington DC: National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. Pp.1-5.