announcement - OCTOBER 2009

Announcement for Dawn Dowding, RGN, PhD

The Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy is pleased to welcome Dawn Dowding, RGN, PhD, a 2009-10 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow, to our team. She will work closely with Institute staff and Kaiser Permanente leaders Marilyn Chow (Vice President, Patient Care Services) and Terhilda Garrido, (Vice President, Strategic Operations).

Dawn’s research will examine the impact of introducing an electronic health record (EHR) on nursing-sensitive patient outcomes and how nurses use the EHR to inform decisions about patient care. She will undertake an Interrupted Time Series study to identify whether or not introducing an EHR has affected nursing-sensitive outcomes, as well as examining nurses’ use of the technology through observation, interviews, and data mining.

Dawn is a senior lecturer in clinical decision making at the Hull York Medical School and department of health sciences, University of York in the United Kingdom. Her past positions include lecturer and research positions at the Universities of Stirling (Scotland) and Surrey (England). She is the author/editor of two books on clinical decision making in nursing and has published over 30 peer reviewed journal articles. She holds a PhD in psychology and nursing studies from the University of Surrey and is a registered nurse.

Please join us in welcoming Dawn.