Faculty Profile
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| Education and Training | ||
| PhD | 1993 | University of Pennsylvania |
| MS | 1982 | University of Missouri |
Affiliations
School
of Nursing
Center
for Evidence-Based Practice in the Underserved,
School of Nursing, Columbia University.
Collaborations
Biomedical
and nursing informatics, primary care
Return to School of Nursing Faculty
| Melinda
L. Jenkins, PhD, APRN, BC Assistant Professor |
Research
Summary
Dr. Jenkins is an experienced family nurse practitioner and educator
involved in research on the application of informatics to primary care
practice, education, and evaluation.
Dr. Jenkins' current research provides electronic documentation of Family Nurse Practitioner patient encounters to enhance a national database that can be used for the evaluation of quality and effectiveness of care. In the past, she has determined appropriate quality outcome measures for primary care Nurse Practitioner practice, consulted in the development of an in-house electronic health record, and studied quality outcomes obtained from electronic records and from paper charts.
Selected
Publications
1. Lang, N.M., Sullivan-Marx, E.M. & Jenkins, M.
(1996). Advanced practice nurses & success of organized delivery
systems. American Journal of Managed Care, 2(2), 129-135.
2. Jenkins, M. & Torrisi, D. (1997). Community partnership primary care case study: Abbottsford Community Health Center. Nurse Practitioner Forum, 8(1), 21-27.
3. Gwyther, M. & Jenkins, M. (1998). Migrant farmworker children: Health status, barriers to access, and nursing innovations in health care delivery. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 12(2), 60-66.
4. Marek, K.D., Jenkins, M., Westra, B.J. & McGinley, A. (1998). Implementation of a Clinical Information System in Nurse-Managed Care. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 30(1), 37-44.
5. Jenkins, M. (2002). Abbottsford community health center and Pennsylvania politics. In Mason, D.J. & Leavitt, J.K. (Eds.), Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care (4th ed.) (pp. 87-91) Philadelphia: Saunders.
6. Evans, L., Jenkins, M., & Buhler-Wilkerson, K. (2003). Academic nursing practice: Power nursing for the 21st century. In Mezey, M. & McGivern, D. (Eds.), Nurses, nurse practitioners: Evolution to advanced practice (4th ed.) New York: Springer.
Current Projects
1.
Web-based data collection for nurse-managed centers
Center for Evidence-Based Practice in the Underserved, School of Nursing,
Columbia University
2/2003-1/2004
Recently Completed Clinical Trials
1.
Primary Care Nurse Practitioners’ Prescriptions
Sigma Theta Tau/Glaxo Wellcome.
2/1996-1/1999
2.
Outcomes Routinely Documented using a Computerized Patient Record
in Primary Care
Center for Nursing Outcomes Research, University of Pennsylvania 2001
Pilot and Feasibility Grant Program.
7/2001-6/2002
Honors and Awards
| 1996 | Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1996 | Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, US Dept. of Health and Human Services: “Models That Work”, awarded to Abbottsford & Schuylkill Falls Community Health Centers, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1997 | Smith Kline Beecham Corporation: “Impact Award” for community service, awarded to Abbottsford & Schuylkill Falls Community Health Centers, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1997–1998 | Advisory Board member in the development of: National Council of State Boards of Nursing & National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. |
| 1998 | Curriculum Guidelines and Criteria for Evaluation of Pharmacology Content to Prepare Family Nurse Practitioners (FNP) for Prescriptive Authority and Managing Pharmacotherapeutics in Primary Care. Chicago: author. |
| 1998 | Pennsylvania State Nurses Association: “Mary Ann Arty” Legislative Award |
| 1998 | National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties: “Outstanding Faculty Practice Award” to the Primary Care Family Nurse Practitioner Program of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2000 – 2002 | National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties: “Faculty-to-faculty mentor”(2 times) to increase community health content in Nurse Practitioner Programs |
| 2001-2002 | Consultant
to Frances Hughes,Chief Advisor (Nursing), Personal & Family
Health Directorate, Ministry of Health, New Zealand, regarding
the role of primary care nurse practitioners in the US |
| 2001 | Fellowship in Medical Informatics, National Library of Medicine, Woods Hole, MA |
| 2002 | Invited participant in National Nursing Summit on Primary Care Nurse-Managed Centers, hosted by the Michigan Academic Consortium, sponsored by WW. Kellogg, Dearborn MI |
Committees
American Medical Informatics Association
Nursing Informatics working group
Primary Care informatics working group
American
Nurses' Association
Pennsylvania State Nurses' Association, district 23
Board of Directors, 2000-2002
League of Women Voters
National Alliance of Primary Care Informatics
National
Nursing Centers Consortium
Board of Directors, 1999-2002
Chair of Research and Data committee 200-2002
National
Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties
Chair, Academic Nursing Centers Special Interest Group, 2002-
Sigma Theta Tau, Xi chapter