Assistant Professor
Ohio State University College of Nursing, Martha S. Pitzer Center for Women, Children & Youth
Columbus , Ohio, United States
Dr. Chris Fortney is an assistant professor in the Martha S. Pitzer Center for Women, Children & Youth at The Ohio State University College of Nursing and a Principal Investigator at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Fortney has built a program of research based on the study of the experiences of critically-ill infants in the NICU and their families. Through the use of descriptive data, behavioral observations, and qualitative interviews, she has highlighted the trajectories of symptoms and suffering, as well as how perceptions of symptoms and suffering influence parent satisfaction, decision-making, and changes in goals of care for both infants and their parents. She has also highlighted challenges to the identification and management of symptoms in critically ill infants in the NICU, developed a framework to evaluate the quality of neonatal death, and published the first manuscript to illuminate patient-reported symptom data in this population. An additional interest of Dr. Fortney's is distress experienced by nurses while caring for infants in the NICU who have life-threatening or life-limiting illness. She is currently looking at social determinants of health and other factors that may affect symptom assessment and management in the NICU. And, working with a community advisory board to translate study materials into other languages. Dr. Fortney's dream is to develop interventions that will ultimately improve the palliative and/or end of life care experiences and outcomes for all those who need this care while in the NICU.
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Friday, September 16, 2022
10:15 AM – 10:35 AM PDT
Friday, September 16, 2022
10:35 AM – 10:55 AM PDT
Friday, September 16, 2022
10:55 AM – 11:15 AM PDT