Faculty Sketch
Peter I. Buerhaus, PhD, RN, FAAN
Valere Potter Professor of NursingDirector, Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies
Institute for Medicine and Public Health
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
peter.buerhaus@vanderbilt.edu
Current Research Interests
- 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 Ratios |
Representative Publications
Buerhaus, P. (2008). Current and future state of the US nursing workforce. The Journal of the American Medical Association. 300(20), 2422-2424.
Buerhaus, P., Ulrich, B., Donelan, K., DesRoches, C. Registered nurses' perspectives on health care and the 2008 presidential election. Nursing Economic$, 2008; 26 (4):227-235, 257.
Donelan, K., Buerhaus, P., DesRoches, C., Dittus, R., Dutwin, D. Public perceptions of nursing careers: The influence of the media and nursing shortages. Nursing Economic$, 2008; 26 (3);143-150,165.
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.
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.