1980 B.S.N. Herbert H. Lehman College
1984 M.S.N. Hunter College
1995 Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Elizabeth A. Capezuti, PhD, RN, FAAN is the Dr. John W. Rowe Professor in Successful Aging at NYU College of Nursing. She also serves as Co- Director for the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing where she directs the NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders) program. Her program of research, funded by several foundation and federal grants, focuses on improving elder care, including reduction of functional decline, falls and injuries among older adults. Findings from her research have been used to draft both state legislation and federal regulations related to nursing home care. Dr. Capezuti has published extensively in the areas of fall prevention, restraint and side rail elimination, hospital care and legal liability issues.

Dr. Capezuti received her doctoral degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995 and was a Hartford Institute Gerontological Research Fellow at New York University in 1998. She has also been on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing from 1984 through 2000 where she received the 1995 Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching. From 2000 to 2003 she held the Independence Foundation - Wesley Woods Chair in Gerontologic Nursing at Emory University. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the Gerontological Society of America, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the New York Academy of Medicine.

Research Interests:

• Evaluation of geriatric nursing hospital practice models
• Development and testing of individualized interventions aimed at improving elder care, including reduction of functional decline, falls, and injuries

Wagner, L.M., Capezuti, E. C., & Rice, J.C. (in press). Nurses' perceptions of safety culture in long-term care settings. Journal of Nursing Scholarship.

Kim, H., Capezuti, E., Boltz, M., & Fairchild, S. (in press). The nursing practice environment and nurse-perceived quality of geriatric care in hospitals. Western Journal of Nursing Research.

Capezuti, E., Brush, B.L, Lane, S. Rabinowitz, H.U., & Secic, M. (in press).  Bed-exit alarm effectiveness.  Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics.

Boltz, M., Capezuti, E., Bowar-Ferres, S., Norman, R., Secic, M., Kim, H., Fairchild, S., Fulmer, T., & Mezey, M. (2008). Hospital nurses' perceptions of the geriatric care environment. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 40 (3), 282-289.

Capezuti, E., Brush, B.L., Won, R.M., Wagner, L.M., & Lawson, W.T. (2008).  Least restrictive or least understood?: Waist restraints, provider practices, and risk for harm. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 20 (3), 305-322.

Wagner, L.M., Capezuti, E., Clark, P.C., Parmelee, P.A., & Ouslander, J.G. (2008). Use of a falls incident reporting system to improve care process documentation in nursing homes. Journal of Quality and Safety in Healthcare, 17, 104-108.

Capezuti, E., Wagner, L.M., Brush, B.L., Boltz, M., Renz, S., &  Secic, M. (2008). Bed and toilet heights as potential environmental risk factors. Clinical Nursing Research, 17 (1), 50-66.

Kim, H., Capezuti, E., Boltz, M., Fairchild, S., Fulmer, T., & Mezey, M. (2007). Factor structure of the geriatric care environment scale. Nursing Research, 56(5), 339-347.

Capezuti, E., Taylor, J., Brown, H., Ouslander, J., & Strothers, H.  (2007). Challenges to implementing an APN-facilitated falls prevention project. Applied Nursing Research, 20, 2-9.

Capezuti, E., Wagner, L.M., Brush, B.L., Boltz, M., Renz, S., & Talerico, K.A. (2007). Consequences of an intervention to reduce restrictive siderail use in nursing homes. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 55, 334-341.

Wagner, L.M., Capezuti, E., Brush, B.L., Boltz, M., Renz, S., & Talerico, K.A. (2007). An advanced practice nursing consultation model to reduce siderail use in nursing homes. Research in Nursing and Health, 30, 131-140.

Wagner, L.M., Capezuti, E., & Ouslander, J.G. (2006). Reporting near-miss events in nursing homes. Nursing Outlook, 54, 85-93.

Capezuti, E., Boltz, M., Renz, S., Hoffman, D., & Norman, R.G. (2006). Nursing home involuntary relocation: Clinical outcomes and perceptions of residents and families. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 7, 486-492.

Wagner, L.M., Capezuti, E., Taylor, J., Sattin, R.W., & Ouslander, J.G. (2005). Impact of a falls menu-driven incident-reporting system on documentation and quality improvement in nursing homes. The Gerontologist, 45 (6), 835-842.