Marilyn Rantz

PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor
Associate Director, MU Interdisciplinary Center on Aging

S406 MU Sinclair School of Nursing
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211
E-Mail: RantzM@missouri.edu
Phone: (573) 882-0258
Fax: (573) 884-4544

Research Description: Quality of Care in Nursing Homes. Gerontological Nursing and Nursing Administration. Quality management, public policy evaluation, management effectiveness, and behavioral management of chronically confused elderly.

Nursing Specialty: Gerontological Nursing, Nursing Administration

Interest Area: Quality measurement, public policy evaluation, management effectiveness, and behavioral management of chronically confused elderly.

Marilyn Rantz is currently employed as Professor at the MU Sinclair School of Nursing and holds the named position of University Hospitals Professor of Nursing. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Former experiences include Administrator of Lakeland Nursing Home of Walworth County in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, nursing administrator, nursing instructor, assistant director of nursing education, head nurse, and staff nurse intensive care.

Educational background includes Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Masters of Science in Nursing from Marquette University, Masters of Arts in Teaching from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of Illinois - Chicago and Associate Degree in Nursing from Mercy Junior College in St. Louis. Her doctoral education was focused on long-term care policy, health policy, public program evaluation, and chronically confused nursing home residents.

Publications include numerous articles and book chapters on topics including quality improvement, health policy, nursing diagnosis, quality assurance, nursing management, productivity analysis, and care of the elderly. She has authored several books including two that earned AJN Book of the Year awards in 1991 and 1998. Recent texts, Using MDS Quality Indicators to Improve Outcomes and Outcome-Based Quality Improvement for long-term care: Using MDS, Process, and Outcome Measures (AJN award), were published by Aspen Publishing to help quality improvement teams in nursing homes evaluate and improve care. A new book to help consumers, The New Nursing Homes: A 20-minute Way to Find Great Long Term Care, was published in 2001 by Fairveiw Press. Workshops primarily focused on long-term care of the elderly include: quality improvement, use of MDS assessment data to evaluate quality of care, documentation and nursing diagnosis, quality assurance, productivity analysis, and management effectiveness.

• Research has centered on Quality Care in Nursing Homes
• New Book for Consumers on The New Nursing Homes: A 20-Minute Way to Find Great Long-Term Care, Fairview Press
• New Book for Providers, Outcome-based Quality Improvement for Long-Term Care, Aspen Publishers
• Missouri Division of Aging, state-wide study on Missouri Nursing Home MDS Data Set Analysis & Quality Improvement to Improve Resident Outcomes ($606,872)
• National Institute of Health Study on Nursing Care Processes, Outcomes & Cost in Nursing Homes ($509,719)
• Internationally respected authority on MDS Research with nurses around the world
• Director, Tiger Place
• National Institute of Health Study on A New Measure of Nursing Home Care Quality - Ro1 ($1,007,595)

Publications

Grants and Contracts

Press Releases:

Aging in Place: New Concept Helps Elderly Live Independently Longer

Nursing Gerontology Researcher Honored for Improving Care Delivery in Nursing Homes

High Touch/High Tech -- TigerPlace video

 

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