Margaret Sebern, PhD, RN

Office Phone (414) 288-3839

E-mail Address margaret.sebern@marquette.edu

Specialization

Nursing outcomes for both chronically ill patients and informal carer.

Highest Degree/School

PhD University of Illinois, Chicago

Brief Statement of Scholarly Interests

My research focus is nursing interventions for patient and family carers managing chronic illness in home health care (i.e., heart failure), and outcomes for both.

Additional Descriptors

Based on qualitative research with home health care patients and family members, I developed and evaluated an instrument to measure a shared interaction between a patient and their informal caregiver. I am involved in a research study focused on using technology to enhance nursing care and improve outcomes for chronically in adults and informal caregivers in home health care.

Descriptive Titles of Courses Recently Taught

• Nursing 200 Theoretical Foundations in Nursing
• Nursing 258 Concepts and Interventions for Adults and Older Adults with Health Problem
• Nursing 259 Health and Wellness of Adults and Older Adults.

Selected Publications
Sebern, M., & Riegel, B. (in press). Shared care and self care in family dyads managing heart failure. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Sebern, M.D. (2008). Refinement of the Shared Care Instrument-Revised: A measure of a family care interaction. Journal of Nursing Measurement, 16, (1), 43-60.

Sebern, M.D. and Whitlatch, C. (2007). Dyadic Relationship Scale: A Measure of the Impact of the Provision and Receipt of Family Care. Gerontologist, 47, (6), 741-751.

Brennan, P.F., Burke, L., Casper, G., Sebern, M., Krause, C., et al. (2006). Creating technology-enhanced practice: A university-home care-corporate alliance. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 122, 644-648.

Brennan, P.F., Burke, L, Sebern, M., Casper, G., & Murphy, J. (2006). “Wait, wait – you can’t do that!” Reflections on a Nursing Informatics Partnership, H. Park (Ed.), Proceedings, NI 2006.

Brennan, P.F., Casper, G., Burke, L., Sebern, M., Krause, C., Kossman, S., Severtson, L., Murphy, J. (In Press) Creating technology-enhanced practice: A university-home care-corporate alliance. 9th International Congress on Nursing Informatics, Seoul, Korea, June 2006.

Sebern, M.D. (2005) Psychometric evaluation of the Shared Care Instrument in a sample of home health care family dyads. Journal of Nursing Measurement, 13, (3).

Sebern, M.D. (2005) Shared care, patient and family member skills used to manage burden. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 52, (2): 170- 179.

Riegel, B, Carlson, B, Moser, DK, Sebern, M, Hicks, FD, Roland, V. (2004) Psychometric Testing of the Self-Care of Heart Failure Index. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 10 (4): 350-360.

Extramural Grants or Awards

American Association Heart Failure Nurses 2008 award for best research poster presentation. Contributions of close relationships to heart failure self care. Presented at the American Association Heart Failure Nurses 4th Annual Meeting, June 26-28, 2008. Boston, MA.

John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing, Scholar for 2003 Geriatric Nursing Research Scholars and Fellows Program.

Sebern, M. (2003-2005) Shared care and the quality of family dyad’s relationship. Role Principal Investigator. Funded $4000, UW-Madison T32 Patient Centered Interventions NINR T32 NR07102. Sebern, M. Marquette University Research Development Program (2008). Shared Care Intervention for Heart Failure Patients and Family Caregivers. Awarded $2300.00

Sebern, M. Marquette University Regular Research Grant (2007). Pilot test the Shared Care Intervention to enhance supportive relationships and heart failure management in family care. Awarded $5979.20.

Editor/Reviewer/Consultant

Reviewer:

• Journal of Advanced Nursing
• The Gerontologist
  

Consultation:

• Visiting Nurse Association of Wisconsin, Aurora Health Care. VNA Professional Advisory Committee
  

Professional Affiliations

• Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing, Delta Gamma (1979 – present)
• Gerontological Society of America
• American Heart Association
• American Association of Heart Failure Nurse
• Midwest Nursing Research Society
• Wisconsin Nurses Association
• American Nurses Association