Mailing Address:
Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
Nursing Education Building
420 Guardian Drive, NEB Room 332R
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6096
Telephone: (215) 898-9759
Fax: (215) 573-2062
Email: laiken@nursing.upenn.edu

Full CV

Alternate website(s): http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/chopr

Education:

1964  B.S.N., Cum Laude, Nursing,  University of Florida

1966  M.N., Nursing  University of Florida

1973  Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

Research:

• Medical Sociology
• Health Services Research
• Health and Social Policy
• Health Outcomes Research
• Health and Population

Selected Publications:

2007 Linda H. Aiken, James Buchan, Patricia Pittman (eds.). International Nurse Migration. Health Services Research, Suppl., March 2007.

2007 Linda H. Aiken, Sean P. Clarke, Douglas M. Sloane, Ying Xiu. Supplemental Nurse Staffing in Hospitals and Quality of Care. Journal of Nursing Administration.

2007 Sean P.Clarke and Linda H. Aiken. Failure to Rescue. Encyclopedia of Nursing Leadership. Harriet R. Feldman et al. (eds.). Springer: New York.

2006 Linda H. Aiken. Nurses: Mythbusting & the Nursing Shortage. http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2006/11/08/nurses-mythbusting-the-nursing-shortage/ 11/8/2006.

2006 Ann Kutney Lee, Nancy P. Hanrahan, Linda H. Aiken, & Michael Blank. “Perceived facilitators and barriers to the implementation of an advanced practice nursing intervention for HIV regimen adherence among the seriously mentally ill. Journal of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, 13(5):626-628.

2006 Richard Cooper and Linda H. Aiken. “Reframing Policies for Global Migration of Nurses and Physicians: A United States Perspective.” Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice 7 (3): 66S-70S.

2006 Linda H. Aiken and Lusine Poghosyan. “Improving Health Care Through Investments in Nursing.” Sestrinskoye Delo (Russian).

2007 Anne Marie Rafferty, Sean P. Clarke, James Coles, Jane Ball, Philip James, Martin McKee, Linda H. Aiken. “Outcomes of Variation in Hospital Nurse Staffing in English Hospitals: Cross-sectional Analysis of Survey Data and Discharge Records.” International Journal of Nursing Studies. 44(2):175-182.

2007 Linda H. Aiken. “U.S. Nurse Labor Market Dynamics are Key to Global Nurse Sufficiency”. Health Services Research.

2007 Linda H. Aiken. “Nurse Staffing Impact on Organizational Outcomes.” Pp 550-559 in Diana Mason, Judy Leavitt, Mary Chaffee (editors), Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care, 5th edition. St. Louis: Elsevier.

2006 Sean P. Clarke and Linda H. Aiken. “More Nursing, Fewer Deaths.” Quality and Safety in Health Care. 15(1):2-3.

2006 Robyn Cheung and Linda H. Aiken. “Hospital Initiatives to Support a Better Educated Workforce.” Journal of Nursing Administration (JONA) 36(7/8):357-362.

2006 Linda H. Aiken. “Effects of Workplace Environments for Hospital Nurses on Patient Outcomes.” In G. Lobiondo-Wood and J. Haber, Nursing Research: Methods and Critical Appraisal for Evidence-Based Practice. St. Louis: Mosby.

2005 Linda H. Aiken. “Nurses’ Expanding Roles.” In Leading Change in the Health Care System. Hartford Connecticut: Aetna.

2005 Linda H. Aiken. “Nursing: The Unfinished Patient Safety Agenda.” AHRQ WebM&M, July 2005.

2005 Linda H. Aiken. “ Improving Quality Through Nursing.” In D. Mechanic, L. Rogut, D. Colby, J. Knickman (eds) Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

2005 Linda H. Aiken. “A Professional Dialogue on Nurse Staffing Ratios.” Voice of Nursing Leadership. AONE September 2005.

2005 Linda H. Aiken. “Optimizing the Contributions of Nurses to Health Care Quality.” Japanese Journal of Nursing Science. 30(4)56-59, April 2005.

2005 Linda H. Aiken. “Extending the Magnet Concept to Developing and Transition Countries”. Reflections on Nursing Leadership. 2005; 31(1):16-18.

2004 Ann E. Rogers, Wei-Ting Hwang, Linda D. Scott, Linda H. Aiken, David F. Dinges. “Hospital Staff Nurse Work Hours and Patient Safety” Health Affairs, 23(4):202-212, July, 2004.

2004 Linda H. Aiken, James Buchan, Julie Sochalski, Barbara Nichols, Mary Powell. Trends in International Nurse Migration.” Health Affairs 23(3): 69-77, May, 2004.

2004 Linda H. Aiken. “RN Education: A Matter of Degrees.” Nursing2004 34(3):50-51, 2004.

2004 Biography of Linda Aiken in Pivotal Moments in Nursing: Leaders Who Changed the Path of a Profession. By Beth Houser and Kathy Player. Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau International.

2004 Linda H. Aiken. “Nurses’ Job Satisfaction, Burnout, and Patient Outcomes: International Comparisons.” Nursing Management (Japanese), May 2004.

2004 Doris C. Vahey, Linda H. Aiken, Douglas M. Sloane, Sean P. Clarke, Delfino Vargas. “Nurse Burnout and Patient Satisfaction.” Medical Care 42(2) suppl:II-57-II-66, 2004.

2004 Linda H. Aiken. “Academic Practice: A Rich Laboratory for Nursing Research.” Pp. 200-202 in L.D. Evans and N.M. Lang (eds.) Academic Nursing Practice: Helping to Shape the Future of Health Care. New York: Springer, 2004.

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