Dr. Maja Djukic, PhD, RN is an assistant professor at the NYU College of Nursing, where she was a Mary Clark Rockefeller Doctoral Fellow. Currently, Dr. Djukic is a co-investigator on two Robert Wood Johnson funded research grants that focus on building the science related to nursing workforce by examining career trajectories of newly licensed registered nurses over a ten-year period. Her research interests focus on theory building related to the impact of social and physical aspects of nurse practice environment on nurse work outcomes and quality and safety of patient care delivery.
As a co-investigator on a Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation funded grant, she is collaborating with faculty from the NYU School of Medicine to develop and evaluate a curriculum aimed at improving teamwork competencies of future nurses and physicians, an important determinant of job satisfaction for both professional groups and a precursor to safe and quality patient care. As part of this effort, she is also involved in teaching undergraduate nursing students the competencies of teamwork, quality improvement, patient safety, and cultural competency using high-fidelity simulation and other technology enhanced teaching strategies.
Additionally, Dr. Djukic is collaborating with the NYU Langone Medical Center through a program, Microsystem Academy, sponsored by the American Academy of Colleges of Nursing and Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. As part of this program, Dr. Djukic is working with Margarita De La Fuente, MS, RN, a nursing quality specialist to assess and improve quality of care in selected microsystems and then apply the knowledge from this collaboration to enhance the healthcare quality and safety education of graduate nursing students.
Dr. Djukic received her doctorate from the NYU College of Nursing in 2009 where Dr. Christine Kovner served as her primary mentor. The purpose of her dissertation research was to extend the theoretical and empirical base of nurses' job satisfaction determinants by testing the effect of physical work environment on job satisfaction. She has published her research findings in the American Journal of Nursing, Journal of Professional Nursing, Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, and The Online Journal of Issues of Nursing and has presented at a number of national conferences.
