Helena Leino-Kilpi is a professor and chair, Head of the Department, University of Turku, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nursing Science and Nurse director (part-time), Turku University Hospital.
She is nationally and internationally well-known expert and researcher in the field of nursing science, and health sciences. She is a registered nurse, master in educational sciences and PhD in nursing science, and has made her post doctoral-studies in 1990s in the New York University.
Her main teaching area is health care and nursing ethics, as well as research methods and supervision of PhD-students. She has supervised more than 50 graduated PhDs in nursing science, has been chairing years the Finnish National Doctoral Network in Nursing Science and taught research ethics in the European Academy of Nursing Science. Currently, she is also a member of the management board of the Baltic Sea Region Doctoral Network.
Research of Helena Leino-Kilpi is in three main areas: 1) health care ethics, 2) clinical nursing, especially patient education and quality of care, and 3) health care and nursing education, especially in competence of professionals. She has participated and chaired many international research projects, also funded by European Commission. In health care ethics, her interest has been in empirical and clinical ethics. She has produced knowledge in the field of patients’ rights, ethical competence of professionals and ethics education. She has published around 500 scientific, referee-based publications.
Leino-Kilpi is well-known in international and national academic duties. She has made research evaluations in many universities, has memberships in advisory boards, tasks in research associations and foundations. She is a Fellow of European Academy of Nursing Science, and visiting professor in the University of Dublin Trinity College. She is also Honorary Doctor in the University of Klaipeda, Lithuania.
MS The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 2012
(with Distinction) Dallas, Texas (Clinical Science)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Virginia Commonwealth University
Associate Professor, Tenure Track, Nursing Administration 2017
The University of Texas at Austin, School of Nursing
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, Nursing Administration & Nursing Systems 2010-2017
Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing, Nursing Administration &
Nursing Systems 2007-2010
Parkland Health & Hospital System, Dallas, TX
Director, Care Management 2003-2007
Interim Vice President, Nursing Administration & Chief Nursing Officer, 2004-2006
Director, Clinical Research & Data Management, 2000-2003
Associate Director, Clinical Research, 1999-2000
Critical Care Education Coordinator, Nursing Education, 1991-1999
Critical Care Educator (MICU/CCU), Nursing Education, 1989-1991
Assistant Head Nurse, Medical Intensive Care Unit, 1987-1989
Staff Nurse, Medical Intensive Care Unit, 1986-1987
Critical Care & Trauma Nurse Intern, 1985-1986
HONORS AND SPECIAL AWARDS
Billye Brown Award for Excellence in Leadership 2016
Innovation in Teaching, The University of Texas School of Nursing 2015
Reviewer of the Year, Research in Nursing & Health 2015
Outstanding Graduate Award, University of Texas at Austin 2004
Outstanding Graduate Award, Marycrest College 1985
RESEARCH GRANTS – FUNDED & ACTIVE
Principal Investigator:
2015-2017 Implicit Rationing of Nursing Time and Care: An Exploration of Salient Behavioral, Normative, and Control Beliefs among Registered Nurses.
2017-2019 Clinical Leadership Development for Frontline Medical Surgical Nurses: An Evaluation of Needs & Methods.
RESEARCH PROJECTS COMPLETED
2013-2014 Trends in Texas Nurse Staffing Before and After Implementation of Nurse Staffing Regulations.
2013-2014 Comparison of MISSCARE and PIRNCA Surveys: A Methodological Pilot Study. Principal Investigator, Patti Hamilton.
2011-2012 Measurement of the Dimensions of Nursing Work Time.
2011-2012 Rationing of Nursing Care, Stress of Conscience, and Job Burnout in Texas Hospital Nurses.
2008-2009 Quantification of Nursing Surveillance and Nursing Intervention Markers with Real Time Location System (RTLS) and Wi-Fi Technology – Is it Feasible?
2004 Terry Jones, PI. Nurse Sensitive Process and Outcome Measures for Patients with Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome Receiving Mechanical Ventilation.
PUBLICATIONS – Refereed Articles (published or “in press”)
VanFosson, C. A., Yoder, L. H. & Jones, T. L. (2017). Patient turnover: A concept analysis. Advances in Nursing Science, March 6. doi: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000171.[Epub ahead of print.
Hamilton, P., Willis, E., Jones, T., McKelvie, R., Blackman, I., Toffoli, L.,& Harvey, C. (2017). Evaluating the performance of a single item, global estimate of missed nursing care. Journal of Nursing Measurement, 25(1, 121-141. doi:.10.1891/1061-3749.25.121.
Jones, T. (2017). Nurse educators and nurse managers: Partners in moving quality improvement from values to competencies. Nursing Management,48(4), 13-15. Doi: 10.1097/01.NUMA.000051470.53443.e3
Jones, T. (2016). What nurses do during time scarcity – and why. Journal of Nursing Administration, 46(9), 449-454. .
Jones, T. (2016). Outcome measurement in nursing: Imperatives, ideals, history, & challenges. Online Journal of issues in Nursing, 21(2), Manuscript 1.
VanFosson, C. A., Jones, T. L., & Yoder, L. H. (2016). Unfinished nursing care: An important measure for nursing care systems. Nursing Outlook. 64(2), 124-136. doi:10.1016/j.outlook.2015.12.010
Jones, T., Bae, S., Murry, N., Hamilton, P.(2015) Texas nurse staffing trends before and after mandated nurse staffing committees. Power, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 16(3-4), 79-96. doi:10.1177/1527154415616254
Jones, T. L., Gemeinhardt, G., Thompson, J. A., & Hamilton, P. (2015). Measuring unfinished nursing care: What to consider when choosing and scoring surveys. Journal of Nursing Care Quality. Advanced online publication available on June 25, 2015. doi:10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000143
Jones, T., Hamilton, P., & Murry, N. (2015) Unfinished nursing care, missed care, and implicitly rationed car: State of the science review. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 52(6), 1121-1137. doi:10.1016/jijnstu.2015.02.012
Jones, T. (2015). A descriptive analysis of implicit rationing of nursing care: Frequency & patterns in Texas. Nursing Economic$. 33(30), 144-154.
Jones, T. & Yoder, L. (2015). Dimensions of nurse work time: Progress in instrumentation. Nursing and Health Services, 17(3), 323-330. doi:10.1111/nhs.12191
Jones, T., Hamilton, P., Carryer, J., Sportsman, S., & Gemeinhardt, G. (2014). International network for the study of rationalized nursing care: An overview. In 2nd Annual Conference Proceedings Worldwide Nursing Conference (WNC 2014). Global Science and Technology Forum. Doi:10.5176/2315-4330_WNC14.92
Jones, T. (2014). Can real time location system technology (RTLS) provide useful estimates of time use among nursing service personnel? Research in Nursing & Health, 37(1), 75-84
Jones, T. (2014). Validation of the perceived implicit rationing of nursing care (PIRNCA) instrument. Nursing Forum, 49(2), 77-87. doi: 10.111/nuf.12076
Jones, T. (2012). Radiofrequency identification (RFID): Exploiting an old technology for wireless measurement of nurse time and motion. Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 30(9), 463-472.
He is Senior Fellow to the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania School, USA, Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science, Fellow of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine and the European coordinator of the EU RN4CAST-network, Nurse Forecasting in Europe.
Anne’s research interests include the philosophy and ethics of health care, judgement and decision-making in clinical practice and health services research – focusing on the health work force.
Anne has been a board member of a number of research funding agencies and health service agencies in Ireland – Board member of the Health Research Board, founding member of the Irish Council for Bioethics, Board member of the Health Service Executive (Ireland). Anne was until June 2016 a member of the Board of Governors of the Royal Liverpool and Broad Greed Hospitals NHS Trust and Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.