Donna Fick, RN, GCNS-BC, AGSF, FAAN
Dr. Donna Marie Fick is the Elouise Ross Eberly Endowed Professor of the Ross & Carol Nese College of Nursing at The Pennsylvania State University, and Director of the Tressa Nese and Helen Diskevich Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence. Dr. Fick is best known for her NIH funded work on mentation, delirium superimposed on dementia (DSD) and ultra-brief delirium detection at the bedside. Along with Dr Marcantonio and their team, she has transformed the way clinicians approach delirium and DSD. Their tools, the UB-2 and UB-CAM, are used in health systems across the world and the UB-CAM is available as a free app here https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ub-cam-delirium-screen/id1591656740. She serves on the American Geriatrics Society Board as President beginning in May 2023, and has been a member or co-chair of the interdisciplinary panel for the American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria for inappropriate medication use in older adults since 2002. Dr. Fick co-leads Age-Friendly Care-PA working with an FQHC, Primary Health Network, and interprofessional teams to spread age-friendly care to rural older adults in PA. She is a member of the National Academy of Science Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence and she serves as a faculty and advisory member on Creating an Age Friendly Health System Initiative with the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. She is also a site lead with the Revisiting the Teaching Nursing Home Project. She is board-certified in geriatrics and her goal in her research and service is to improve the care of older adults, persons with disabilities, and their care partners.
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Type of financial relationship:There are no financial relationships to disclose.Date added:05/15/2023Date updated:05/22/2024