Vivian Gedaly Duff, D.N.Sc., R.N.
Associate Professor
Lead Faculty of Child, Adolescent, and Family
Oregon Health & Science University
School of Nursing Portland Campus
3455 SW US Veterans Road, SN-6S
Portland, Ore. 97239
Office: 503 494-3866
Fax: 503 494-3878
E-Mail: gedalyv@ohsu.edu
Vivian Gedaly-Duff is an Associate Professor in Child & Family Nursing at the School of Nursing. Her Diploma is from Albert Einstein Medical Center (Philadelphia), her BSN from the University of Pennsylvania, her MN from the University of Washington, and her DNSc is from University of California, San Fransisco (UCSF). She has completed postdoctoral research fellowships in pain as a Robert Wood Johnson Nursing Scholar at University of Pennsylvania, and in symptom management at UCSF.
Her research, teaching, and practice has been with children experiencing acute and chronic pain during illness. Her postdoctoral work has been with chronic illness in children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and their families, and sleep and other symptoms. She has served as coordinator of nursing education and research for children with disabilities and their families at the Center of Rehabilitation and Development in Children (CDRC) at OHSU. She teaches child and family nursing and symptom research. Her current research is a longitudinal study of chemotherapy, pain, sleep disturbance, and fatigue children with leukemia, and their parents funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research.
SERVICE ACTIVITIES
1985-1986 Sigma Theta Tau International, Beta Psi Chapter President
1988-present Journal of Pediatric Nursing, Editorial Board Member since 1996 & Manuscript Reviewer
1992-present Journal of Nursing Education, Manuscript Reviewer
1995-present Journal of Family Nursing, Manuscript Reviewer
1996-2000 Western Institute of Nursing, Executive & Prog Committees (Gov. of Research, 1996-98)
1998-2000 National Council on Family Relations, Chair of Family and Health Section
2007-present Oncology Nursing Forum, Manuscript Reviewer
2008-present Research in Nursing & Health. Manuscript Reviewer
2008-present Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Manuscript Reviewer
Grant Activity in Research and Graduate Education
Gedaly-Duff, V. (Principal Investigator). H. Stacy Nicholson, Nail, L.M., Stork, L., Perko, K.P., Anderson, K.D., & Johnson, K.P., Perrin, N. (Co-investigators). Lee, K.A (Consultant). "Chemotherapy, Pain, Sleep, Fatigue in Children & Parents." Funded 2005-2010, NIH-NINR 1 R01 NR008570-01A2. Purpose is to learn about pain, sleep disturbances, and fatigue during chemotherapy in children with leukemia, and the families who care for them.
Gedaly-Duff, V. (Co-Director & Core Faculty – Family & Symptom Management) (2007-2012). Nail, L. (Principal Investigator), Houck, G.(Co-Director), Knafl, K (Consultant). “Research Training in Individual and Family Symptom Management.” Funding NIH-NINR 2T32 NR007061-16A2. Specific aim is an Institutional NRSA that provides research training support for pre- and postdoctoral fellows in the area of symptom management experienced by individuals and their families.
Gedaly-Duff, V. (Co-investigator). Hansen, L. (Principal Investigator), & Perrin, N. (Co-Investigator). Significant contributors: Anna Sasaki, MD, PhD, Betsy L. Zucker, RN, MSN, and Joseph Bubalo, PharmD. “Pain & Other Symptoms in Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease at End-of-Life.” Funding NIH 1R03NR010614-02, 2007-2009. The purposes of the pilot study are to a) provide a rich description of the experience of pain and other symptoms over time in patients with ESLD at the end of life, and b) describe pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain and symptom management strategies used by them and their family members.
Selected Publications (* data based)
Gedaly-Duff, V., Lee, K. A., Johnson, K., & Johnson, A. (in preparation). Self-report sleep measures in children with cancer: a comparison of selected child-adolescent sleep quality instruments.
J. Kaakinen, Gedaly-Duff, V., Coehlo, D, & Hanson, S. M. H. (Editors). (in press). Family health care nursing: Theory, practice, and research (4th Edition). Philadelphia: F.A. Davis. Coehlo, D. & Bauer, D. (co-authors). Electronic Instructors Manual available on F. A. Davis website. The 3rd edition by S. M. H. Hanson, V. Gedaly-Duff & J. Kaakinen (Co-Editors) received the prestigious AJN 2005 Book of the Year Award.
Gedaly-Duff, V., Nielsen, A., Heims, M., & Pate, M. (in press). Family child health nursing. In J. Kaakinen, V. Gedaly-Duff, D. Coehlo, & S. M. H. Hanson, (Eds.), Family health care nursing: Theory, practice, and research (3rd Edition) . Philadelphia: F.A. Davis.
McKearnan, K., Gedaly-Duff, V., Shelton, K., & Zisk, R. (in press). Pediatric Pain Management. In W. Votroubek & A. Tabacco (Editors), Pediatric Home Care. An Evidenced-based, Family Health Care Nursing Approach: The Chronically Ill Child in Home and Ambulatory care settings (3rd Edition).
Gedaly-Duff, V., Nicholson, H. S., Lee, K.A. , Nail, L.M., & Johnson, K.P. (2006). Research Brief: Pain, Sleep Disturbance, & Fatigue in Children with Leukemia, and their Parents. Oncology Nursing Forum, 33(3), 641-646. *
Gedaly-Duff, V., & Huff-Slankard, J. (1998). Sleep as a pain indicator for pain relief in an infant: Report of a case. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 13 (1), 32-40. *
Gedaly-Duff, V., & McGraw, T. (1996). Advances in infant pain management. The Doernbecher journal: A journal of continuing education and communication, 2, 7-9.
Gedaly-Duff, V., & Ziebarth, D. (1994). Mothers' management of adenoid-tonsillectomy pain in 4- to 8-year-olds: A preliminary study. Pain, 57, 293-299. *
Gedaly-Duff, V., & Burns, C. (1992). Reducing children's pain-distress associated with injections using cold: A pilot study. Journal of the American Academy of Nursing Practitioners, 4(3), 95-100. *
Gedaly-Duff, V., Stoeger, S., & Shelton, K. (2000). Working with families. In R. E. Nickel & L. W. Desch (Eds.), The physician's guide to caring for children with disabilities and chronic conditions (1 ed., pp. 31-76). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes.
Gedaly-Duff, V. (1991). Developmental issues: Preschool and school-age children. In Joseph P. Bush and Stephen W. Harkins (Eds.) Children in Pain: Clinical and research issues from a developmental perspective (pp. 195-230). New York: Springer-Verlag.
Gedaly-Duff, V. (1989). Palmar sweat index use with children in pain research. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 4(1), 3-8.
Gedaly-Duff, V. (1988). Pain theories and their relevance to nursing practice. Nurse Practitioner, 13(10)
pp. 66, 68.
Gedaly-Duff, V. (1988). Preparing young children for painful procedures. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 3(3), 169-179. *
Berg, P., Devlin, M., & Gedaly-Duff, V. (1980). The child facing loss: selective bibliography for bibliotherapy. Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, 4(4), 37-50.
