Victoria Vaughan Dickson, PhD., CRNP is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing of New York University's College of Dentistry. Her program of research focuses on investigating the multi-factorial influences on the health behavior of self-care among older adults with cardiovascular disease in order to develop interventions that will improve their health and quality of life.
In 2010, she was named a Brookdale Foundation Leadership in Aging Fellow and will investigate the self-care practices of aging workers with CHD and the influence of organization of work (i.e., work processes and organizational practices) on aging worker health, productivity and quality of life.
Dr. Dickson has served as PI and co-investigator on several studies investigating the biobehavioral and sociocultural influences of heart failure self-care. She is currently the PI on an American Heart Association clinical research program grant to develop and feasibility test a community-based intervention to improve self-care among older adults with heart failure.
Dr. Dickson received her doctoral degree the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is a nationally certified adult nurse practitioner with extensive clinical experience in the primary care of older adults and cardiovascular nursing. She is an active member of the American Heart Association serving on the Cardiovascular Nursing Council Leadership Committee and is co-editor of the AHA newsletter, Connections. Dr. Dickson also serves on the interdisciplinary Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) Educational Committee as the nursing representative.
Dickson, VV, Lee, C, Riegel, B. (accepted) How Do Cognition and Knowledge Affect Heart Failure Self-Care. Journal of Mixed Methods Research.
Witkoski, A & Dickson, VV (accepted) Hospital staff nurses' work hours, meal periods and rest breaks: A review from an occupational health nurse perspective. J AAOHN.
McCarthy MM, Dickson VV, Chyun D (accepted) Barriers to Cardiac Rehabilitation in Women with Cardiovascular Disease: An Integrative Review. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.
Riegel, B, Dickson VV, Kuhn, L, Page, K, Worrall-Carter, A. (2010) Gender Specific Barriers and Facilitators to Heart Failure Self-Care: A Mixed Methods Study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, (e-pub ahead of print). PMID: 20079902
Riegel, B, Dickson, VV, Cameron, J, Johnson, J, Bunker, S, Page, K, Worrall-Carter, L (2010) Symptom Recognition in Elders with Heart Failure. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 42(1):92-100.
Dickson, VV. (2009) Commentary: Listening to the Patients' Perspective. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 24:369-370.
Riegel, B, Lee, C, Dickson, VV, Carlson, B. (2009) An update on the Self-Care of Heart Failure Index, Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 24(6): 485-497. PMID: 19786884
Dickson, VV, Riegel, B (2009). Are We Teaching What Patients Need to Know? Building Skills in Heart Failure Self-Care. Heart Lung, 38:3 (263-261).
Lee, C, Riegel, B, Driscoll, A, Suwanno, J, Moser, D, Lennie, T, Dickson, VV, Cameron, J, Worrall- Carter, L (2009) Gender Differences in Heart Failure Self-Care: A Multinational Cross-Sectional Study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 46:1485-1495.
Riegel, B, Driscoll, A, Suwanno, J, Moser, D, Lennie, T, Chung, M, Wu, J, Dickson, VV, Carlson, B, Cameron, J. (2009). Heart Failure Self-Care in Developed and Developing Countries. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 15:508-516.
Dickson, VV, Deatrick, J , Riegel, B (2008) A Typology of Heart Failure Self-Care Management. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 7:3,171-81.
Dickson, VV, McCauley, L, Riegel, B (2008). Work Heart Balance: The Influence of Biobehavioral Variables on Self-Care in Employed Persons with Heart Failure. AAOHN J. 56:2, 63-73.
Riegel, B, & Dickson, VV (2008) A Situation-Specific Theory of Heart Failure Self-Care. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 23:3, 190-196
Reis, B, Dickson, VV, Riegel, B (2008): Motivational Interviewing as Case Management Intervention. Collaborative Case Management, 6;1.
Dickson, VV, Tkacs, N, Riegel, B (2007): Cognitive Influences on Self-Care Decision Making in Persons with Heart Failure. American Heart Journal, 154:3, 424-431.
Riegel, B, Dickson, VV, Goldberg, L,. Deatrick, J (2006): Development of Expertise in Heart Failure Self-Care. Nursing Research, 56:4, 235-243.
Riegel B, Dickson VV, Hoke L, McMahon JP, Reis BF, Sayers S (2006). A Motivational Counseling Approach to Improving Heart Failure Self-Care: Mechanisms of Effectiveness. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 21:3, 232-241.
