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Palan Lopez, Ruth, PhD, GNP-BC, FGSA, FAAN

Jacques Mohr Professor Gerontological Nursing

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center affiliation
- Mentor, Massachusetts Center for Alzheimer and dEmeNtia behaVIoral reSearch In minOrity aging (Mass-ENVISION) 2023 -
institutional affiliation
- Jacques Mohr Professor Gerontological Nursing, MGH Institute of Health Professions 2020 -
- Jacques Mohr Professor Gerontological Nursing, University of Tennessee 2018 - 2020
- Jacques Mohr Professor Gerontological Nursing, MGH Institute of Health Professions 2014 - 2018

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academic article
- Psychosocial Distress Among Certified Nursing Assistants in Long-Term Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Social Ecological Model Informed Scoping Review.. Clinical gerontologist. 47:760-777. 2024
- Advanced-Comfort: Usability Testing of a Care Planning Intervention for Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia.. Journal of gerontological nursing. 49:15-23. 2023
- Older Adult Mental Health: A Student-Led Project to Reduce Stigma Among Residents Living in a Publicly Supported Housing.. Issues in mental health nursing. 44:871-878. 2023
- ‘It's been an extraordinary journey’: Experience of engagement from the perspectives of people with post‐stroke aphasia. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 2023
- An emergency department nurse led intervention to facilitate serious illness conversations among seriously ill older adults: A feasibility study.. Palliative medicine. 37:730-739. 2022
- ADVANCE-C: A Qualitative Study of Experiences Caring for Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia During the COVID-19 Pandemic.. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. 77:1938-1946. 2022
- Association of Nursing Home Organizational Culture and Staff Perspectives With Variability in Advanced Dementia Care: The ADVANCE Study.. JAMA internal medicine. 182:313-323. 2022
- African Immigrant Health: The Health Promotion Beliefs of Zimbabwean Immigrants in the United States.. Journal of immigrant and minority health. 24:1261-1268. 2021
- Managing Shame: A Grounded Theory of How Stigma Manifests in Families Living With Dementia. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. 2020
- Assessment of Millennial Nurses' Job Satisfaction and Professional Practice Environment.. The Journal of nursing administration. 49:411-417. 2019
- Preventing Burdensome Transitions of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia: It's More than Advance Directives.. Journal of palliative medicine. 20:1205-1209. 2017
- Nonpharmacological strategies for patients with early-stage dementia or mild cognitive impairment: A 10-year update. Research in Gerontological Nursing. 2017
- “The Church of Online Support”: Examining the Use of Blogs Among Family Caregivers of Persons With Dementia. Journal of Family Nursing. 2017
- Person-centered feeding care: A protocol to re-introduce oral feeding for nursing home patients with tube feeding. Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging. 2016
- Incentives and Barriers to Precepting Nurse Practitioner Students. Journal for Nurse Practitioners. 2015
- Pregnancy with Chronic Illness. JOGNN - Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing. 2014
- Psychometric evaluation of the surrogate decision making self-efficacy scale. Research in Gerontological Nursing. 2013
- What is family-centered care for nursing home residents with advanced dementia?. American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias. 2013
- Family Satisfaction With Care Provided by Nurse Practitioners to Nursing Home Residents With Dementia at the End of Life. Clinical nursing research. 2012
- Intensive individualized comfort care making the case. Journal of Gerontological Nursing. 2012
- Sources of stress for family members of nursing home residents with advanced dementia. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders. 2012
- Transitions in dementia care: Theoretical support for nursing roles. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. 2012
- Transitions in dementia care: theoretical support for nursing roles.. Online journal of issues in nursing. 2012
- Time travel: the lived experience of providing feeding assistance to a family member with dementia.. Research in gerontological nursing. 2011
- Uncertainty and decision making for residents with dementia. Clinical nursing research. 2011
- Commentary on aselage MB (2010) Measuring mealtime difficulties: Eating, feeding and meal behaviour in older adults with dementia Journal of clinical nursing 19, 621-631. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 2010
- Nurses' perspectives on feeding decisions for nursing home residents with advanced dementia. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 2010
- The influence of nursing home culture on the use of feeding tubes. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2010
- Doing what's best: decisions by families of acutely Ill nursing home residents.. Western Journal of Nursing Research. 31:613-26. 2009
- Decision-making for acutely ill nursing home residents: Nurses in the middle. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 2009
- Suffering and dying nursing home residents: Nurses' perceptions of the role of family members. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing. 2007
- Unity of knowledge in the advancement of nursing knowledge. Nursing Science Quarterly. 2005