Lori L. Popejoy, PhD, APRN, GNS-BC
Assistant Professor
John A. Hartford Foundation Claire M. Fagin Fellow
E-mail: popejoyl@health.missouri.edu
Phone: 573-884-9538
Fax: 573-884-4544
S320 Sinclair School of Nursing
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
Nursing specialty
Adult nursing, gerontological nursing
Interest area(s)
Hospital discharge planning for frail older adults
Education
- BSN, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
- MSN, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
- PhD, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
Area of doctoral study
Decisional congruence between frail older adults, families and health care teams about hospital discharge decisions
Program of research
My program of research centers on discharge planning for frail older adults and their family members. My dissertation study, Hospital Discharge Destination Decisions: Exploring Congruence in Frail Elders, Family, and Health Care Teams’ Decisions, yielded interesting findings about the challenges facing health care providers as they support discharge planning for frail elders.
My current study is exploring the challenges facing health care providers as they plan for hospital discharge of frail elders. This study is in preparation for statewide study on challenges by health are providers in discharge planning. Understanding more about the problems facing elderly patients, their families, and health care providers as plans are made for hospital discharge is essential in this time of shrinking post acute care and family resources.
Selected publications
Popejoy, L.L. Adult protective services use for older adults at the time of hospital discharge. Journal of Nursing Scholarship (In press).
Marek, D., Popejoy, L., Petroski, G. and Rantz, M. (2006). Nurse care coordination in community-based long term care. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 38(1), 80-86.
Marek, K., Popejoy, L., Petroski, G., Mehr, D., Rantz, M. and Lin, W.C. (2005) Clinical outcomes of aging in place. Nursing Research, 54(3), 202-211.
Popejoy, L.L. (2005). Health related decision making by older adults and their families: How clinicians can help. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 31(9), 12-18.
Grando, V.T., Mehr, D., Popejoy, L., Maas, M., Rantz, M., Wipke-Tevis, D.D. and Westhoff, R. (2002). Why older adults with light care needs enter and remain in nursing homes. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 28 (7), 47-53.
Popejoy, L.L., Rantz, M.J., Conn, V., Wipke-Tevis, D., Grando, V. and Porter, R. (2000). Improving quality in nursing facilities: The gerontological clinical nurse specialist as a research nurse and consultant. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 26 (4), 8- 13.
Rantz, M.J., Petroski, G.F., Madsen, R.W., Mehr, D.R., Popejoy, L., Hicks, L.L., Porter, R., Zwygart-Stauffacher, M. and Grando, V. (2000). Setting thresholds for quality indicators derived from MDS data for nursing home quality improvement reports: an update. Journal on Quality Improvement, 26 (2), 101-110.
Rantz, M.J., Zwygart-Stauffacher, M., Popejoy, L., Mehr, D.R., Grando, V.T., and Wipke-Tevis, D. (1999). MDS quality indicators: A useful tool for improving clinical practice and outcomes of care. Annals of Long Term Care, 7 (9), 354-359.
Rantz, M.J., Popejoy, L., Zwygart-Stauggacher, M., Wipke-Tevis, D. and Grando, V. (1999). MDS/RAI: Can using standardized assessment improve clinical practice and outcomes for care? Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 25 (6), 35-43.
Bio/professional experience
My professional nursing career has spanned 28 years. In my early practice I worked primarily in intensive care nursing. The majority of that time I was in mid-level management. During my mid-career I worked primarily in the nursing home setting as a study coordinator for several large nursing home research projects. From there I reentered the management role as the Director of Nursing for Sinclair Home Care, which was the practice site for a study about aging in place. My work experience, which has included hospitals, nursing homes, and home health, has great depth and has inspired me to understand more about the problems and issues facing nurses as they work with frail older adults.
Teaching responsibilities
- N3870 — Gerontological Nursing Care (undergraduate)
- N7100 — Theories in Nursing (graduate)
Presentations and lectures
Popejoy, L.L. “Exploring congruence between frail elders, family members, and health care teams about hospital discharge destination decisions.” Accepted to National State of the Science Congress in Nursing Research, 2008.
Popejoy, L.L. “Level of participation preferred by frail elders, families, and health care teams in hospital discharge destination decisions.” Accepted MNRS 32nd Annual Research Conference, 2008.
Honors and awards
- John A. Hartford Foundation Claire M. Fagin Fellow 2009
- John A. Hartford Foundation Building Academic Nursing Capacity Predoctoral Scholar (2002)
- Pinnacle Awards, Sigma Theta Tau International, Research Dissemination to the Public Award for the book “The New Nursing Homes: A 20 Minute Way to Find Great Long Term Care” (2003)
Memberships
- Gerontological Society of America
- Midwest Nursing Research Society
- Missouri Nurses Association (MONA)
- Sigma Theta Tau, Alpha Iota Chapter