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.

National Association of Children’s Hospital’s Activities of Interest to Social

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