Linda R. Cronenwett of the School of Nursing has been named Sarah Frances Russell professor of nursing.
Cronenwett has most recently served as director of professional nursing, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, N.H., and research associate professor at the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, N.H. She also served as adjunct professor of nursing at the University of Connecticut Graduate School.
In continuing research, Cronenwett has been focusing on the quality of inpatient care and in the last three years has created an instrument to assess the quality of care delivered by staff of hospital inpatient care units. This measure, "Perceptions of Unit Quality," is an outgrowth of her administrative work.
In addition to this research, Cronenwett has received grants for such projects as "Effects of perinatal factors on breast-feeding outcomes" and "Nursing interventions to promote paternal behavior."
Cronenwett has been published in many books and journals, such as the Joint Commission Journal of Quality Improvement, Nursing Research, the Nursing Clinics of North America and Pediatrics, in addition to publications related to promoting dissemination and use of research by nurses in practice.
For their work on research dissemination, Cronenwett and her colleagues in New Hampshire received the Sigma Theta Tau International Research Dissemination Award.
Cronenwett has been a member or held office in many nursing associations. She was the president of the New Hampshire Nurses Association, president of the New Hampshire Nurses Foundation and chair of the American Nurses Association Congress of Nursing Practice. She also served as a member of the Nursing Research Study Section and subsequently as a member of the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health. Cronenwett is currently a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Nursing Measurement.
Cronenwett has served as a consultant to many hospitals and schools of nursing, such as those at the University of California, San Francisco, the University of Illinois, the University of Iowa, Northeastern University and the Medical University of South Carolina. She has consulted internationally with nurses in Srebrnjak, University of Infectious Disease and Sveti Duh Hospitals in Zagreb, Croatia, and the Landspitalin National Hospital in Iceland.
The Russell professorship was established in 1996 by Carl Vernon Russell of Albemarle, N.C., to honor his late wife, a former colonel in the U.S. Army Nursing Corps. Sarah Frances Mullins Russell earned a master's in nursing and doctorate in administration from Carolina. She then served as a consultant with the National Board for Standards and Licensing for Nurses, where she helped develop national standards for nursing supervisors and nursing administration.
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