Katherine Jones, RN, PhD, FAAN

Dr. Jones served YSN through June 2005. This page remains for archival purposes only.

About

Katherine R. Jones, RN, Ph.D., FAAN has joined YSN faculty as Professor in the doctoral program with a focus on health services research and health policy. Dr. Jones also directs the YSN Wound Care Program.

Dr. Jones holds a BSN and MS (medical-surgical nursing) from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. (administration and policy analysis) from Stanford University. She completed her post-doctoral studies in health care finance and quality at the Johns Hopkins University.

Prior to coming to Yale, Dr. Jones was a professor of nursing at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver (1999-03) where she taught Health Policy at the master's level and Cost-Quality-Outcomes research methods (both micro and macro levels) to doctoral students. She was also a faculty research mentor, and was elected School of Nursing Faculty Chair during her last year. Prior to that, Dr. Jones was Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing (1991-98). While at the University of Michigan, Dr. Jones was also Director of the Division of Nursing and Health Care Systems Administration.

At the University of Michigan she taught undergraduate clinical management; master's level health care financial management, integration capstone case course, and nursing administration internship; and doctoral seminars on resource allocation in nursing and health care and organizational research design and methods.

Prior to that, Dr. Jones was Associate/Assistant Professor at the UCLA School of Nursing (1988-91), and Associate/Assistant Professor, College of Health Related Professions, University of Florida (1983-88).

Research interests

Dr. Jones' research focuses on clinical and organizational outcomes analysis. She is currently funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on three studies examining aspects of nursing home quality. She is the principal investigator for an intervention study to improve pain management in nursing homes. A minority supplement to this grant is examining more closely cultural aspects of reporting and managing pain in elderly residents. Dr. Jones is also an investigator on an AHRQ grant to develop a tool to assist consumers to choose a nursing home based on quality factors, and another AHRQ study examining linkages between organizational characteristics (culture, climate, staffing) and performance measures in nursing homes.

Research

Dr. Jones is also funded by BMS/Convatec to direct the Yale Program for the Advancement of Chronic Wound Care (Yale PACWC). This project is developing a repository of best wound care practices, and is also collecting data from multiple sites on wound care processes and outcomes.

Dr. Jones' past research has included patient-based assessments of outcomes of routine surgery (funded by University of Michigan Health System and Department of Surgery); variation in treatment processes and outcomes across NICUs (funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation); case-mix and severity of illness differences between hospital-based and freestanding hemodialysis units (funded by the Health Care Financing Agency); and indigent care financing and delivery programs (funded by the State of Florida Health Committee).

Citizenship

Dr. Jones is a member of the American Academy of Nursing, Expert Panel on Quality Health Care. She also holds these appointments:

Panel of Experts, National Quality Measures Clearinghouse

External Reviewer, National Healthcare Quality Report Long-term Care Measures

Long-term Care Quality Coalition, American Medical Director's Association

Consultant, CMS Revision of Pain Items on the Minimum Data Set

Consultant, CMS Expert Panel on Guidance to Nursing Home Surveyors Related to Pain Management and End-of-Life Issues.

Editorial Board, Outcomes Management for Nursing Practice

Steering Committee, VAMC - Denver, TREP

Reviewer, Nursing Research, Research in Nursing and Health, Medical Care, Journal of Critical-care Nursing, Nursing Outlook

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