University of Missouri – Columbia (MU)
Dr. Johnson’s program is focused on understanding the complex care of older adults and how nursing care models can improve the lives of an aging population. Using systems and team/organizational theories, she seeks to understand how the nursing profession can improve organizational environments such as long-term care settings as well as how nursing care models can improve the lives of aging adults in all healthcare settings to maximize healthy aging in the place of their choosing. Based on her doctoral and postdoctoral research, she is specifically interested in understanding how utilization of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) in care of older adults, inside and outside of the institutional setting, contributes to sustained positive outcomes, reduces hospitalizations, and positively influences all levels of nursing.