Faculty

Peg Kerr, PhD, RN

Peg Kerr, PhD, RN, is an Assistant Professor in the Systems and Practice Area of Study at the University of Iowa College of Nursing.  She received her doctorate in nursing with a focus on nursing administration and nursing informatics from the University of Iowa. She recently completed a two-year institutional training fellowship through the NINR-funded Training in Nursing Effectiveness Research grant and was designated as the 2006 Midwest Nursing Research Society Award Scholar.

Dr. Kerr's research interests include standardized classifications of nursing diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes, and their use in nursing effectiveness research, risk assessment and adjustment of nursing-sensitive patient outcomes, and the relationship of nursing workplace processes to quality of care. Currently, Dr. Kerr is Principal Investigator of a study that is examining the ability of specific patient risk factors to explain variation in change of selected outcomes of older adults funded by the American Nurses Foundation and jointly by the Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center and the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence at Iowa.

Dr. Kerr is a member of the American Nurses Association, Sigma Theta Tau, Midwest Nursing Research Society, and the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science. Her primary area of nursing practice has been in the care of adults, with clinical experience in both acute and long-term care settings.