Primary Areas of Interest

Healthcare team

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Workforce

  • Characterize the nurse practitioner workforce caring for children
  • Understand the roles pediatric nurse practitioners assume in hospital-based care of children.
  • Advocate for strategies to build a highly-qualified, diverse workforce of pediatric nurse practitioners
Colorful hospital hallway

Nurse Practitioner Work Environment

  • Distinguish the role of work environment on patient and organizational outcomes in acute care settings
  • Evaluate policies that contribute to nurses’ work environment
  • Develop interventions to improve the acute care nurse practitioner work environment
Child with haze over head<br />

Pediatric Mental Health

  • Understand children’s ability to access mental health care
  • Explore impacts of policy and social drivers of health on pediatric mental health
  • Identify policy opportunities to improve pediatric mental health and access to pediatric mental health care

The Gigli Lab – University of Texas at Arlington