Faculty Information

Christine Kovner, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor

Phone: 212-998-5312
Fax: 212-995-4359
E-mail:

Education:

1969	B.S.	Columbia University Nursing
1972	M.S.N.	University of Pennsylvania Public Health Nursing Administration
1985	Ph.D.	New York University Nursing
1987-90	Postdoctoral Research Fellowship	New York University Cost of Care

Research Interests / Professional Overview:

Christine Kovner is a Professor at the College of Nursing, New York University and Senior Fellow, Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing also at the College of Nursing. She is a Nurse Attending at the NYU Langone Medical Center. Dr. Kovner is a public health nurse whose research focuses on the cost and use of health personnel. She is the co-author of Financial Management for Nurse Managers and Executives. At NYU she teaches courses on the organization and delivery of nursing care including issues on costs, quality, and the nursing workforce. She currently is the principal investigator on a large panel survey of newly licensed RNs funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation www.RNWorkProject.org. She is a Co-Investigator on NYU's NIH Funded Clinical & Translational Science Institute www.med.nyu.edu/CTSI/

Research Interests:
Quality improvement
Supply and demand for nurses
Cost of nursing care

Current Funding:

2009-2011. Principal Investigator. "The Future of Nursing Research Manager." The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

2008-2016. Principal Investigator. "National Study to Track Career Changes Among Newly Licensed Nurses II." The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

2005-2010. Principal Investigator. "National Study to Track Career Changes Among Newly Licensed Nurses." The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

2009-2014. Co-Investigator. Clinical and Translational Science Award. NIH.

Representative Publications:

Kovner, C.T., Brewer, C.S., Yinqrenqeung, S., Fairchild, S. (in press) New Nurses' Views of Quality Improvement Education. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.

Kovner, C.T., Brewer, C.S., Greene, W., (2009) Understanding new registered nurses' intent to stay at their jobs. Nursing Economics, 27(2), 81-98.

Pellico, L., Brewer, C. & Kovner, C. (2009). What newly licensed registered nurses have to say about their first experiences Nursing Outlook, 57 (4), 194-203.

Brewer, C.S., Kovner, C.T., Greene, W., Cheng, Y. (2009) Predictors of RNs' intent to work and work decisions one year later in a U.S. national sample. International Journal of Nursing Science, 46, 940-956.

Finkler, S., Kovner, C. T., & Jones, C. (2007) Financial management for nurse managers and executives. (3rd ed.). Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.

Kovner, C.T., Brewer, C.S., Cheng, Y. & Djukic, M. (2007). Work attitudes of older RNs. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 8(2), 107-119.

Grzywacz, J., Frone, M., Brewer, C., & Kovner, C.T. (2006). Quantifying work-family conflict among registered nurses. Research in Nursing & Health, 29, 414-426.

Brewer, C., Kovner, C., Wu, Y., Greene, W., Liu, Y., Reimers, C. (2006). Factors influencing female registered nurses' work behavior. Health Services Research, 41(3), 860-886.

Kovner, C.T., & Gergen, P. J. (1998) Nurse staffing levels and adverse events following surgery in U. S. Hospitals. Image: The Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 30, 315-321.