Faculty Sketch
Peter I. Buerhaus, PhD, RN, FAAN
Valere Potter Professor of Nursing
Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies
Institute for Medicine and Public Health
Vanderbilt University Medical Center peter.buerhaus@vanderbilt.edu
Areas of Research/Scholarly Activity:
- Monitoring and analyzing trends in the nursing workforce: aging, shortages, employment. earnings & employment
- Investigating associations of nurse staffing in hospitals and quality of care
- Developing, testing and refining measures of nurse-sensitive quality of care
- Determining opinions on nursing and healthcare related issues held by the public and health care professionals
Current Research/Scholarly Projects:
| 2006-present | Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future |
| 2006-present | Employment and Earnings in the Nurse Labor Market, forecasting future age and supply of RNs |
| 2006-present | Developing, Testing and Refining Nurse Sensitive Measures of Quality of Care, and Examining Census Variability, its Causes, and Its Impact on Nurse to Patient Rations |
Representative Publications:
Buerhaus, P., Staiger, D., Auerbach, New signs of a strengthening nurse labor market? Health Affairs Web Exclusive, November 17, 2004: W4-526 - W4-533.
Poulose, B., Ray, W., Arbogast, P., Needleman, J., Buerhaus, P., Griffin, M., Abumrad, N. (2005). Resident work hour limits and patient safety. Annals of Surgery, 241, 847-860.
Litvak, E., Buerhaus, P., Davidoff, F., Long, M., McManus, M., Berwick, D. (2005). Managing unnecessary variablility in patient demand to reduce nursing stress and improve patient safety. Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 31, 330-338.
Mattke, S., Needleman, J., Buerhaus, P., Stewart, M., & Zelevinsky, M. (2004). Evaluating the role of patient sample definitions for quality indicators sensitive to nurse staffing patterns. Medical Care, 44(2), II-21, 33.
Needleman, J., Buerhaus, P., Stewart, M., Mattke, S., Zelevinsky, K. Is there a business case for quality? Nurse staffing in hospitals. Health Affairs. 2006; 25(1); 204-211.
Buerhaus, P., Donelan, K, Ulrich, B., Norman, L., Dittus, R. (2006). Six part Series on the State of the Nursing Workforce in the US. Nursing Economic$ 2006;24:6-12.
Needleman, J., Buerhaus, P., Mattke, S., Stewart, M., & Zelevinsky, K. (2002). Nurse staffing and quality of care in hospitals in the United States. The New England Journal of Medicine, 346(22), 1715 -1722.
Buerhaus, P., Needleman, J., Mattke, S., & Stewart, M. (2002). Strengthening hospital nursing. Health Affairs, 21(5), 123-132.
Buerhaus, P., Staiger, D., & Auerbach, D. (2000). Implications of a rapidly aging registered nurse workforce. Journal of the American Medical Association, 283(22), 2948-2954.
Buerhaus, P., Staiger, D., & Auerbach, D. (2000). Why are shortages of hospital registered nurses concentrated in specialty care units? Nursing Economic$, 18(3), 111-116.
Auerbach, D., Buerhaus, P., & Staiger, D. (2000). Associate degree graduates and the rapidly aging registered nurse workforce. Nursing Economic$, 18(4), 178-184.
Staiger, D., Auerbach, D., & Buerhaus, P. (2000). Expanding career opportunities for women and the declining interest in nursing as a career. Nursing Economic$, 18(5), 230-236.