SHIRLEY GIROUARD, Nursing
CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:
Girouard, S., New
directions for the advanced practice nurse in healthcare quality: performance
and outcome improvement. In A. Hamric, J. Spross and C. Hanson (Eds.), Advanced
Nursing Practice, 2nd Edition.
Philadelphia: WB Saunders Company, 2000.
Girouard, S. and Seitz,
P., Policy, Politics, and Foundations, In D. Mason, S. and J. Leavitt (Eds), Policy
and Politics in Nursing and Health Care. 3rd Edition. Orlando, Florida: WB
Saunders Company, 1998.
Girouard, S.,
Evaluating the Processes and Impact of Advanced Practice. In A. Hamric, J.
Spross and C. Hanson (Eds.), Advanced
Nursing Practice. Orlando, FL: W.B. Saunders, 1996.
Girouard, S., Igoe, J.
B., A Primary Healthcare Perspective on Comprehensive Children's Services. In R.
Levin (Ed.), Greater Than the Sum:
Professionals in a Comprehensive Services Model. Teacher Education Monograph
No. 17. Washington, DC: ERIC Clearinghouse on Teacher Education; 1994.
Girouard, S., Keenan,
T. and Seitz, P., Policy, Politics, and Foundations, In D. Mason, S. Talbott and
J. Leavitt (Eds), Policy and Politics for
Nursing. 2nd Edition. Orlando,
Florida: WB Saunders Company, 1993.
Meister, S., Feetham,
S., Girouard, S., and Durand, B., Creating and Extending Successful Innovations:
Practice and Policy Implications. In I. Goertzer (Ed.), Differentiating
Nursing Practice into the Twenty-First Century, Kansas City, Missouri:
American Academy of Nursing; 1991.
Girouard, S., Health
Policy and the Clinical Nurse Specialist. In A. Hamric and J. Spross (Eds.), The
Clinical Nurse Specialist in Theory and Practice. 2nd Edition, New York:
Grune & Stratton; 1989.
JOURNAL
ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
Girouard, S., Levine,
G., Goodrich, K., Jones, S., Keirserling, H., Rathore, M., Rubens, C., Williams,
E., & Jarvis, W. Pediatric
prevention network: a multicenter collaboration to improve health care outcomes.
American J of Infection Control. Vol. 29, No. 3, June 2001.
Girouard, S., Levine,
G., Goodrich, K., Jones, S., Keirserling, H., Rathore, M., Rubens, C., Williams,
E., & Jarvis, W. Infection
control programs in children’s hospitals: a description of structures and
processes. American
J of Infection Control. Vol.
29, No. 3, June 2001.
Girouard, S.
A YSN education can lead in surprising directions. Yale
Nurse. Spring, 2000.
Yee, J., Shelton, D.,
Girouard, S., Homer, C, & Goldman, D. Market
forces and organizational evolution in freestanding children’s hospitals in
the US; manuscript accepted in June 2000 for publication in the Journal
of the Ambulatory Pediatric Society, supplement to Pediatrics.
Girouard, S., HEDIS
3.0: another piece of the quality puzzle. Children’s
Hospitals Today, Fall 1996.
Girouard, S., Special
Needs of Women Whose Mothers Died of Breast Cancer, Innovations in Breast Cancer Care, Vol. 1, No. 4, July 1996.
Girouard, S., and
Smoot, M., Health Care Reform and Nursing Resource Policy: The North Carolina
Experience. Nursing & Health Care.
Vol. 15, No. 8; October 1994.
Girouard, S. and
Sherrod, D., Recognizing and Retaining Nurses.
Nursing Matters. May 1993.
Campbell, J., Girouard,
S., et al., Violence as a Nursing Priority. Nursing Outlook.
March/April 1993.
Girouard, S., and
Marchewka, A. Individual Clinical supervision: A Strategy for Professional
Growth. Topics in Clinical Nursing.
Vol. 5, No. 3: October 1983.
OTHER
PUBLICATIONS:
Girouard, S., Schwalenstocker, E. & Shelton, D.
Children’s
Hospitals and Related Institutions: a 1999 chart book,
Alexandria, VA, NACHRI, 1999.
Guillette, S. & Girouard, S.
Emergency
medical services for children: standards and guidelines of public sector
agencies and organizations. Monograph, HRSA/ EMS-C, 1999.
Girouard, S., Home
Health Care Policy In New Hampshire, for NH Home Care Association; February
1986.
Girouard, S., Costing
Out Nursing Services: Issues and Implications. Nursing News. Vol. 34, No. 8; December 1984.
Girouard, S., Nursing
and Politics. (Guest editorial) The Valley
News. Lebanon, New Hampshire; June 19, 1984.
Girouard, S., Nursing
in Great Britain: Impressions. Nursing
News; May 1979.
Girouard, S., The Role
of the Clinical Specialist as Change Agent. Royal
College of Nursing Abstracts. London; March 1979.
Girouard, S., (Thesis
Abstract) Nursing Research, Vol. 26,
No. 6: November/December 1977.
CONFERENCE
PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:
Outcomes
and State Health Policy,
organizer and panelist, Children’s Health Services,
Researchers Meeting, at AHSRHP, June 2001, Atlanta, GA
Errors
in Children’s Health Care,
organizer and panelist, Children’s Health Services,
Researchers Meeting, AHSR post-conference, June 2000, Los Angeles, CA
Skills
for the Health Services Researcher, Eastern Nursing Research Society,
March 2000, Newport, RI
Using
Health Services Research to Influence Policy: An Example from a Study
of Children’s Hospitals, Eastern
Nursing Research Society, March 2000,
Newport, RI
Infection
Control in Children’s Hospitals: a Description of Structures and Processes,
Eastern Nursing Research Society, March 2000, Newport, RI
Using
Networks to Conduct Children’s Health Services Research, panelist,
Children Health Services Researchers Meeting, AHSR preconference, June
1999,
Chicago, IL.
NACHRI/CDC
Cooperative Agreement,
Association of Practitioners in Infection
Control, June 1999, Baltimore, MD.
Quality
and the Role of the Advanced Practice Nurse,
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical
Center Conference, May 1999, Portland, ME
Patient
Care Services in Children’s Hospitals, Research presentation at the Society of
Pediatric Nurses Annual Conference and Meeting, April 1999, Houston, TX
NACHRI/CDC Cooperative Agreement, 1998 NACHRI Quality Improvement
Annual Forum, December 1998, Orlando, FL.
Pediatric Excellence in Health Delivery Systems: A Framework for Research,
Canadian
Association of Pediatric Hospitals, October 1998, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada.
NACHRI/CDC Cooperative Agreement -
Linkages for Outcomes Research, 1998 NACHRI Annual Meeting, October 1998, Houston, TX
The Funder’s Perspective,
N.A.C.H.
1998 Grants Workshop, June 1998, Washington, DC.
Pediatric Excellence in Health
Delivery, Society of
Pediatric Nurses’ - The Art of Pediatric Nursing Conference, April 1998,
Orlando, FL
Child Advocacy: The Nurse’s Role
as Child/Patient/Family Advocate, Society of Pediatric Nurses’ The Art of Pediatric Nursing Conference,
April 1998, Orlando, FL.
Health Professionals, The
George Washington University Medical Center, March 1998, Washington, DC.
Multi-Site Research, Conference
on Child Health Outcomes - Child Health Accountability Initiative, Children’s
Hospital San Diego, October 1997, San Diego, CA.
Pediatric Excellence in Health
Delivery Systems: A Framework for Research, Society
of Pediatric Nurses’ Skill Building for the Future Conference, July 1997,
Breckenridge, CO.
Pediatric Excellence in Health
Delivery Systems: A Framework for the Future, 32nd
Anniversary Conference of the Association for the Care of Children’s Health,
May 1997, Washington, DC.
Pediatric
Excellence in Rehabilitation Delivery Systems: A Framework for Action,
9th Annual Pediatric Rehabilitation Conference, Alfred I. DuPont
Institute, May 1997, Wilmington, DE.
Workers, 32ndAnnual
Meeting of the Society for Social Work Administrators in Health Care,
May 1997, Phoenix, AZ.
National Association of Children’s Hospital’s Activities of Interest
to Ambulatory Care
Providers,
American Hospital Association - Society of Ambulatory Care Professions, April
1997, St. Louis, MO.
Success
Beyond the Turmoil: The Nursing Response, Central Vermont Hospital, March
1995, Barre, VT.
Nursing's
Role in Health Care Reform,
Yale University Alumnae/i College, June 1994,
New Haven, CT.
Implications
of Health Care Reform for Nursing, American College Health Association, June 1994, Atlanta, GA.
Advanced
Practice Nurses, CNBC
television, May 1994, Washington, DC.
Impact
of National Health Care Reform on Nurses and Nursing,
Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center, May
1994, Lebanon, NH.
Health
Care Reform and Nursing,
Kimball Medical Center, May 1994, Lakewood, NJ.
Nurses
and Violence: Promoting Community Safety - Keynote Address,
Community Health Nursing Chapter, Arizona Nurses Association, April 1994, Tempe,
AZ.
Nursing's
Role in Health Care System,
Jackson Hole Group, February 1994, Jackson Hole, WY.
RECENT
GRANTS RECEIVED:
Cooperative agreement with
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study hospital acquired infections
and antimicrobial resistance in children's hospitals and
improve outcomes, National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related
Institutions (three year grant, 1998); principal investigator.
Survey of the children's hospitals: organization, structure, financing and
services, National Association of
Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (1998-1999); principal
investigator.
Lucille and David Packard Foundation Grant to develop a directory of child
health services researchers,
National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions
(1998-1999); principal investigator.
Maternal Child Health Bureau, US Department of Health and Human Services,
Emergency Medical Services for Children, two contracts (study of state and
federal standards and study of emergency care planning for children with special
health care needs), National
Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (1997 and 1998);
oversight for staff project directors.
RESEARCH
INTERESTS IN GENERAL:
Health policy
(general); child health policy; health services research (general); child health
services research; evidence-based practice; accountability; quality of
care/services
MASTER'S
THESES ADVISEMENT:
DISSERTATION TITLE: Utilization
of mental health services, quantitative
study of statewide utilization patterns of in-patient mental health services
INSTITUTION GRANTING Ph.D.: Brandeis
University, health and social policy