Overview
Education
- PhD, Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- MSN, Nursing Administration, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- BSN, National Yang-Ming Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan
Areas of Research, Teaching, And Clinical Expertise and Scholarship
My research area is quality of care and patient safety for older adults with a focus on addressing the needs of people with dementia and their family caregivers (e.g., preventing falls/fractures, the effects of the Medicare annual wellness visit policy on care outcomes; using archived hospital data, Medicare and post-acute-care data, interviews, focus group meetings, or surveys).
I use quantitative and/or qualitative methods to answer my research questions as appropriate. I also engage patient/caregiver partners, clinicians, and policy makers in my research. I collaborate with biostatisticians, geriatricians, rehabilitation and health service researchers, as well as start-up/small companies to investigate end-user friendly approaches using emerging health technologies.
Research Areas and Interests
- Nursing Business and Health Systems
- Quality of care and patient safety: e.g., nursing practitioner prescription patterns, potentially inappropriate medications, patient falls, pressure ulcers, patient experiences, infection control, newly emerging infectious diseases, religions and cultures, informatics, health policy, history of Chinese medicine
- Patient engagement and adults' self-care needs
- Human resource management and leadership: e.g., the relationship between staffing and care quality, professional obligations, resource allocation, family involvement in inpatient care settings, higher education administration
- Research & Teaching Methodology (e.g., machine learning, simulation)
Selected Accomplishments
- Odelia Brown McCarley Endowed Professorship in Nursing
- Selected for Fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) and inducted into the American Academy of Nursing (October 2011)
- Received the 2012 Outstanding Alumni Award in Research, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan (2012). I graduated from the traditional BSN program in 1990
- Received the School of Nursing Distinguished Alumni Award, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan (2011, 2006)
- Received the Sigma Theta Tau, Rho Chapter's Award for Excellence in Nursing Research for 2010, at the University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, Michigan (2010)
- Received the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2000 at the National Pingtung Teachers' College Affiliated Elementary School, Pingtung, Taiwan (2000)
- Received a Golden Apple award from the Thompson Center for Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan-Flint for teaching excellence (Fall 2011)
- Appointed a Visiting Professor at Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (天津中醫藥大學 Tianjin, China), September 2018–August 2020. Hosting college: Dean Yanhui Liu, College of Nursing. Responsibility: Provide research consultation to nursing faculty and PhD students
