MARIE T. NOLAN, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor
Department of Acute and Chronic Care
Director, PhD Program
"In
critical illness, our support for patient decision making
preferences within the family is essential to respecting the
integrity of the human person."
Dr. Marie T. Nolan is internationally renowned for her work
on patient and family decision making in the face of critical illness. Her
research focuses on the decision-making process at the end of life and on
decisions regarding living organ donation, key issues in both clinical care
and bioethics. Her pioneering end-of-life research has revealed that instead
of the autonomous decision making model prevalent in clinical practice and
health care policy, most critically ill patients prefer shared decision
making with their family and physician. At Johns Hopkins University School
of Nursing, Dr. Nolan directs the PhD program and is the Johns Hopkins
Director for the first nursing doctoral program in China, a collaboration
between Peking Union Medical College and the School funded by the China
Medical Board of New York. She is also Advisory Board Member of the
International Nursing Doctoral Education Network. Dr. Nolan holds a joint
faculty appointment in the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, is
the Evaluation Core Director for the School Center for Collaborative
Intervention Research, and has served on advisory panels of the National
Institutes of Health regarding end-of-life care research. Widely published
in the nursing and multidisciplinary research literature, Dr. Nolan has
edited two books, Measuring Patient Outcomes (2000) and
Transplantation Nursing: Acute and Long-term Management (1995).
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