BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Provide the following information for the key personnel and other significant contributors in the order listed on Form Page 2.
Follow this format for each person. DO NOT EXCEED FOUR PAGES.
NAME
Boyle, Diane / POSITION TITLE
Associate Professor
eRA COMMONS USER NAME
DBOYLE
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION / DEGREE
(if applicable) / YEAR(s) / FIELD OF STUDY
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD / BSN / 1974 / Nursing
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC / MSN / 1982 / Nursing-Secondary Care
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS / PhD / 1990 / Nursing

A.  Positions and Honors

Professional Experience

1974-1977 U.S. Army Nurse Corps, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, TX

1977-1978 Staff Nurse, Intensive Care Unit, Seton Medical Center, Austin, TX

1978-1979 Staff Nurse, Burn Unit, Institute of Surgical Research, Fort Sam Houston, TX

1979-1980 Staff Nurse, Intensive Care Unit, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Fayetteville, NC

1982-1983 Clinical Nurse Specialist, Critical Care, St. Francis Medical Center, Honolulu, HI

1984-1985 Director, Staff Development, St. Francis Medical Center, Honolulu, HI

1985-1986 Instructor, Medical-Surgical Nursing, University of Kansas School of Nursing, Kansas City, KS

1986-1988 Staff Nurse, Intensive Care Unit, Research Medical Center, Kansas City, MO

1987-1989 Research Assistant, Univ. of Kansas School of Nursing, Grants and Research, Kansas City, KS

1989-1990 Data Manager, NIH/NCNR Grant NR02092, Univ. of KS School of Nursing, Kansas City, KS

1990-1994 Assistant Professor, Medical College of Georgia, School of Nursing, Augusta, GA

1994–1999 Assistant Professor, University of Kansas, School of Nursing, Kansas City, KS

1999–Pres Associate Professor, University of Kansas, School of Nursing and Department of Health Policy & Management, School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS

Honors and Awards (selected)

1999 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Kansas

1999 Investigator’s Research Award, University of Kansas Medical Center

2000 W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas

B.  Selected publications

Publications

Boyle, D.K., Popkess-Vawter, S., & Taunton, R.L. (1996). Socialization of new graduate nurses in critical care. Heart & Lung, 25, 141-154.

Sauter, M.A., Boyle, D., Wallace, D., et al. (1997). Psychometric evaluation of the organizational job satisfaction scale. Journal of Nursing Measurement, 5. 53-69.

Taunton, R.L., Boyle, D., Woods, C., Hansen, H., & Bott, M. (1997). Managerial leadership and retention of hospital staff nurses. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 19, 205-226.

Boyle, D.K., Bott, M.J., Hansen, H.E., Woods, C.Q., & Taunton, R.L. (1999). Managers’ leadership and critical care nurses’ intent to stay. American Journal of Critical Care, 8, 361-371.

Boyle, D.K., & Kochinda, C. (2004). Enhancing collaborative communication of nurse and physician leadership in two intensive care units. The Journal of Nursing Administration,34, 60-70.

Taunton, R.L., Bott, M.J., Koehn, M.L., Miller, P., Rindner, E., Pace, K., Elliott, C., Bradley, K.J., Boyle, D., & Dunton, N. (2004). The NDNQI-Adapted Index of Work Satisfaction. Journal of Nursing Measurement 12, 101-122.

Boyle, D.K., Miller, P.A., Forbes-Thompson, S.A. (2005). Communication and end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: Patient, family, and clinician outcomes. Critical Care Nursing Quarterly,28, 302-316.

Boyle, D.K., Miller, P.A., Gajewski, B.J., Hart, S.E., & Dunton, N. (2006). Unit type differences in RN workgroup job satisfaction. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 28, 622-640.

Boyle, D.K., & Miller, P.A. (2008). Focus on nursing turnover: A system-centered performance measure. Nursing Management, 39(6), 16-20.

Miller, P.A., & Boyle, D.K. (2008). Nursing specialty certification: A measure of nursing expertise. Nursing Management, 39(10), 10-12, 14, 16.

Kemper, C.A., & Boyle, D.K. (2009). Leading your organization to high reliability. Nursing Management, 40(4), 14-18.

Klaus, S.F., Boyle, D.K., & Simon, M. (2009). A method to the madness: Understanding nursing quality measurement. Nursing Management, 40(8), 12-15.

Gajewski, B.J., Boyle, D.K., Miller, P., Oberhelman, F., & Dunton, N. (2010), “A multilevel confirmatory factor analysis of the Practice Environment Scale (PES): A case study,” Nursing Research, 21, 147-153 .

Gajewski, B.J., Boyle, D.K., & Thompson, S. (2010). How a Bayesian might estimate the distribution of Cronbach’s alpha from ordinal-dynamic scaled data: A case study measuring nursing home residents quality of life. Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 6(2), 71-82..

Thompson, S., Bott, M, Boyle, D., Gajewski, B., & Tilden, V.P. (2011). A measure of palliative care in nursing homes. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 41(1), 57-67.

C. Research Support

Ongoing Research

Dunton (PI) 01/01/2007-06/30/2011

American Nurses Association

National Database for Nursing Quality Indicators

The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators is established and maintained to: (1) provide benchmarking information on nursing-sensitive indicators to acute care hospitals for use in their quality improvement initiatives; and (2) monitor local and national trends in hospital nurse staffing to facilitate the American Nurses Association's Patient Safety, Nursing Quality initiative.

Role: Co-Investigator

Boyle (PI) 09/01/2008-05/31/2011

MacArthur Award and Office of Grants and Research Award, KU School of Nursing

Effects of Adult Intensive Care Units’ Physical Environment on Nurse-Physician Collaboration: An Instrumentation Pilot Study

In this project instruments and data collection methods are piloted for ICU clinicians’ perception of various psychosocial factors, such as privacy and status; (2) spatial behaviors, such as walking trips, movement, visible co-presence, and fleeting face-to-face encounters; and (3) ICU physical design.

Boyle (PI) 10/01/2010-09/30/2011

American Board of Nursing Specialties, AACN Certification Corporation, & American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

Trends in Nursing Specialty Certification

This project investigates (a) trends related to specialty certification of RNs from 2004 to present, (b) and examines the association between trends in the unit prevalence of specialty certified RNs and nursing processes and patient outcomes.


Completed Research

Dunton (PI) 01/01/2006 – 12/31/2007

American Nurses Association

National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators, Indicator Development Contract.

Under this project, NDNQI developed and implemented three new indicators: the Practice Environment Scale, Restraint Prevalence, and Voluntary Nurse Turnover.

Role: Co-Investigator

Bott, M (PI) 07/01/2006-12/31/2008

Kansas Department of Aging

Kansas Nursing Facility Project

The objective of this study is to identify characteristics of nursing care facilities that are associated with quality measures and survey deficiencies.

Role: Co-Investigator

Dunton (PI) 02/01/2008-07/30/2009

American Nurses Association

National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators, Methods Development: Unit Level Acuity Adjustment and Calculation of Hospital Level Indicators.

In this project methods for acuity adjustment at the unit level will be identified and examined for reliability, validity and appropriateness. One will be selected and tested for use within the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators.

Role: Co-Investigator