Dr. Natany da Costa Ferreira Oberfrank joined the College of Nursing in 2022, after completing her post-doctoral scholarship in the Center for Nursing Classification and Clinical Effectiveness. Her research interests include the application of standardized nursing terminologies to symptom science, patient participation in self-care behaviors, and health interventions tailored for older individuals with chronic diseases.

Dr. Oberfrank’s program of research focuses on two key research themes: Behavioral Interventions for Heart Failure Symptom Management and Standardized Nursing Terminologies (NANDA-NIC-NOC) in Electronic Health Records. Internal funding supported her earlier research in which she validated case studies on knowledge for heart failure symptom management using nursing outcomes. She currently leads a team to design and validate a novel tool to measure motivation for heart failure symptom management, the Heart Failure Symptom Management Motivation (HF-SMM) instrument. Dr. Oberfrank’s long-term goal aims to develop knowledge and motivation profiles according to patients' needs and expectations for further design of tailored mobile health behavioral interventions to enhance heart failure symptom self-management.

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