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Annette De Vito Dabbs, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
Acute and Tertiary Care
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School of Nursing 336 Victoria Building 3500 Victoria St Pittsburgh, PA 15261
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Research
My scholarly interests include health-related quality of life after lung transplantation, active partnerships between patients and clinicians, qualitative research, and mixed-methods analysis techniques. The descriptive studies that I have conducted to date provide evidence that positive outcomes after transplantation are dependent on recipients` abilities to adjust to the challenges that accompany the health transition after transplantation and become active partners in their care.Teaching
For the past 5 years I have been teaching the course, Ethics in Nursing and Health Care to students in the BSN, RN Completion and Second Degree undergraduate programs, and currently serve as the primary faculty facilitator for the undergraduate ethics curriculum. I am also the primary teacher for the graduate level course, Ethics for Advanced Practice Nursing. I hold an adjunct faculty appointment in the Center for Bioethics and Law and participate in a university-wide, strategic planning group of faculty involved in teaching ethics. I provide invited lectures to undergraduate and graduate students in my areas of interest (e.g., ethical issues, transplantation, and mixed-methods research). I also advise undergraduate nursing students and mentor pre and post-doctoral students. I supervise independent studies and practica on a variety of topics for University of Pittsburgh students pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing, information science, and computer science and students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Human Computer Interaction Program. I was appointed Graduate faculty status in 2005 and am the recipient of the School of Nursing’s 2007 Nursing Excellence in Teaching & Technology Award.Service
Within the School of Nursing, I have served on the following committees: PhD Council, Planning & Budget, Academic Intergirty, Evaluation Steering and am the founding chair of the BSN Council Evaluation Sub-Group which is responsible for all BSN Quality Improvement activities. I received the Lucie Young Kelly Faculty Leadership Award in 2007. Within the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, I am a member of the UPMC hospital ethics committee and devote clinical time to supporting the activities of the transplant coordinators for the adult lung transplant program. At the local/regional level, I am a member of the governance committee of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society, Eta Chapter, serve on the board directors for Pennsylvania State Nurse`s Association District 6 (recently completed two terms on the Cabinet on Nursing Practice and Professional Development), and The Eastern Nursing Research Society. At the national level, I am a member of the American Nurse`s Association, American Thoracic Society (currently serving on the QI Task force) and The International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (currently serving a two year term as Chair of the Nursing & Social Science Council). I am an editorial board member for Qualitative Health Research and a regular reviewer for The American Journal of Critical Care, Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Heart & Lung, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Journal of Advanced Practice and Critical Care Nurse.Education
| PhD | University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA |
| Nursing | |
| MN | University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| Physiological Nursing, Pulmonary CNS | |
| BSN | Kent State University |
| Nursing | |
| AD | University of Toledo |
| Respiratory Care |