Sinclair School of Nursing

Marilyn Rantz, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor
Helen E. Nahm Chair
University Hospitals and Clinics Professor of Nursing

E-mail: rantzm@health.missouri.edu
Phone: 573-882-0258
Fax: 573-884-1353
Web site: Nursing Home Help

S406 Sinclair School of Nursing
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

Nursing specialty

Gerontological nursing, Nursing administration, Chronic illness management

Interest area(s)

Quality of care in long-term care; Quality measurement; Aging in place; Nurse care coordination; Technology to enhance aging in place

Education

• AD, Mercy Junior College, St. Louis, Mo.
• BS, University of Illinois, Chicago, Ill.
• MA, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, Wis.
• MS(N), Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis.
• PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wis.

Area of doctoral study

Long-term care health policy and public program evaluation; Gerontological nursing

Program of research

Quality improvement in the care of older adults across the continuum of care; aging in place; technology to enhance aging in place

Selected Grants and Awards

• Primaris Nursing Home Quality Improvement Consulting Services - Primaris - $92,832, 2008-2009
• Quality Improvement Program for Missouri 2008-2009 - Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, $360,000, 2008-2009
• Dementia Educational Training - Alzheimer's Association Mid-Missouri Chapter, fee for service, 2007-2008
• Technology to Enhance Aging in Place at TigerPlace - Administration on Aging - $979,104, 2005-2009
• Multilevel Interventions to Improve Nursing Home Outcomes - National Institutes of Health, NINR - $2,888,334, 2005-2010
• Building Interdisciplinary Geriatric Health Care Research Centers - Rand Health - $200,000, 2006-2009

Selected publications, books, and book chapters

• Anderson D., Luke R.H., Keller J.M., Skubic M., Rantz M. & Aud M. (2009). Modeling human activity from voxel person using fuzzy logic. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 17(1), 39-49.
• Grando, V.T., Buckwalter, K.C., Maas, M.L., Brown, M., Rantz, M., & Conn, V. (2009). A trial of a comprehensive nursing rehabilitation program for nursing home residents post-hospitalization.  Research in Gerontological Nursing, 2(1), 12-19.
• Rantz, M.J., Aud, M.A., & Miller, S.J. (2008) Aging in Place. In Carr, D., Crosnoe, R., Hughes, M.E., Pienta, A. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA.
• Rantz, M.J., Skubic, M., Burks, K., Yu, J., Demiris, G., Hensel, B.K., Alexander, G.L., He, Z., Tyrer, H.W., Hamilton, M., Lee, J., & Brown, M. (2008). Functional assessment technologies.  In M. Alwan & R.A. Felder. (Eds.), Eldercare Technology for Clinical Practitioners (pp. 5-32). Totowa, NJ: Humana.
• Lee, J. & Rantz, M. (2008). Correlates of post-hospital physical function at 1 year in skilled nursing facility residents.  Journal of Advanced Nursing, 62(4), 1479-486.
• Courtney, K.L., Demiris, G., Rantz, M.J., & Skubic, M. (2008). Needing smart home technologies: the perspective of older adults in continuing care retirement communities.  Informatics in Primary Care, 16(3), 195-201.
• Alexander, G.L., Rantz, M., Skubic, M., Aud, M.A., Wakefield, B., Florea, E., & Paul, A. (2008).  Sensor systems for monitoring functional status in assisted living facility residents. Research in Gerontological Nursing, 1(4), 238-244.
• Alexander, G.L., Havens, T.C., Skubic, M., Rantz, M.J., Keller, J.M., & Abbott, C. (2008).  Markerless human motion capture-based exercise feedback system to increase efficacy and safety of elder exercise routines. Gerontechnology, 7(2), 67.
• Demiris, G., Parker-Oliver, D., Hensel, B.K., Dickey, G., Rantz, M., & Skubic, M. (2008). Use of videophones for distant caregiving: An enriching experience for families and residents in long-term care. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 34(7), 50-55.
• Rantz, M.J., Porter, R., Cheshier, D., Otto, D., Servey, C.H., Johnson, R.A., Skubic, M., Tyrer, H., He, Z., Demiris, G., Lee, J., Alexander, G., & Taylor, G. (2008). TigerPlace, a state-academic-private project to revolutionize traditional long term care. Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 22(1/2), 66-85.
• Demiris G., Parker Oliver D., Dickey G., Skubic M., & Rantz M. (2008). Findings from a Participatory Evaluation of a Smart Home Application for Older Adults. Technology and Health Care, 16, 111-118.
• Rantz, M.J., Aud, M.A., Zwygart-Stauffacher, M., Mehr, D.R., Petroski, G.F., Owen, S.V., Madsen, R.W., Flesner, M., Conn, V., & Maas, M. (2008). Field testing, refinement, and psychometric evaluation of a new measure of quality of care for assisted living. Journal of Nursing Measurement, 16(1), 16-30.

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Bio/professional experience

Marilyn Rantz is a Professor of Nursing who has been affiliated with the MU Sinclair School of Nursing since 1992. She holds the named position of University Hospital Professor of Nursing and has an appointment as Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the MU School of Medicine. 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. Her studies focused on long-term care policy, health policy, public program evaluation, and chronically confused nursing home residents. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

A leader in the area of long-term care research, Dr. Rantz is currently serving as the Principal Investigator for "Multilevel Interventions to Improve Nursing Home Outcomes". This 2005 National Institutes of Health award was the largest ever given to a researcher at the Sinclair School of Nursing. In her role as Associate Director for the MU Interdisciplinary Center on Aging, she is also serving as Principal Investigator for "Building Interdisciplinary Geriatric Health Care Research Centers", which was recently funded through the Hartford Foundation. Two other programs of research, one funded through the National Science Foundation, and the other through the Administration on Aging, focus on the use of different types of technology, such as motion sensors, to provide assistance to elders who wish to remain in their own homes.

Much of this research is being conducted at TigerPlace, an assisted living facility that is a joint venture between the Sinclair School of Nursing and the Americare Corporation. Dr. Rantz was part of the School of Nursing team who worked on the original design for TigerPlace, and today is the School's Director for the facility.

Student mentoring projects

Graduate and undergraduate student research experiences; PhD student mentoring; MS(N) student advising; Beginning faculty mentoring

Presentations, proceedings, and lectures

• "Contour tracking of human exercises", Proceedings from IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence: Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence, Nashville, TN, Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009, Havens, T.C., Alexander, G.L., Abbott, C., Keller, J.M., Skubic, M., & Rantz, M. International.
• "A Dance Movement Therapeutic Intervention to Improve Balance and Gait in Community-Based Frail Seniors: A Pilot Study", Midwest Nursing Research Society 33rd Annual Research Conference, Minneapolis, MN, March 29, 2009, Krampe, J., Rantz, M.J., Skubic, M., Schamp, R., Abbott, C., Dowell, L. National.
• "Predictors of a New Depression Diagnosis in Nursing Home Residents", Midwest Nursing Research Society 33rd Annual Research Conference, Minneapolis, MN, March 27-30, 2009, Phillips, L.J., Rantz, M.J., Petroski, G.F. National.
• "Roadblocks to care improvements by nursing home leadership", Gerontological Society of America 61st Annual Scientific Meeting, National Harbor, MD, November 21-25, 2008, Rantz, M.J., Zwygart-Stauffacher, M., Flesner, M.K. National.
• "Nurse Staffing, Leadership, and Geriatric Specialist Competencies in Nursing Homes", Gerontological Society of America 61st Annual Scientific Meeting, National Harbor, MD, November 22, 2008, Rantz, M.J. National.
• "TigerPlace: An innovative educational and research environment", Proceedings from AAAI Fall Symposium: AI in ElderCare, New Solutions to Old Problems, Washington, DC, November 7-9, 2008, pp. 84-91, Rantz, M., Aud, M., Alexander, G., Oliver, D., Minner, D., Skubic, M., Keller, J., He, Z., Popescu, M., Demiris, G., & Miller, S. International.
• "Prediction of the pulse pressure trend in elderly using in-home monitoring sensors: a pilot study", Proceedings from American Medical Informatics Association: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology Conference, Washington DC, November 7, 2008, pp. 29-33, Popescu, M., Florea, E., Krampe, J., Skubic, M., & Rantz, M. International.
• "Leading the Path to Collaboration: Pressure Ulcer (PrU) Prevention and Care", CMS Consortium for Quality Improvement and Survey and Certification Operations (CQISCO) Midwest Consortium Regional Meeting, Kansas City, MO, September 3-4, 2008, Rantz, M. Regional.
• "An acoustic fall detector system that uses sound height information to reduce the false alarm rate", Proceedings from 30th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 20-24, 2008, pp. 4628-4631, Popescu, M., Li, Y., Skubic, M., & Rantz, M. International.
• "State, Academic, and Community Partnership to Improve Quality in Nursing Homes: The QIPMO Program", 18th Annual Conference: Caring for the Frail Elderly, Columbia, MO, August 15-16, 2008, Rantz, M.
• "Using Technology to Enhance Aging in Place", Proceedings from International Conference on Smart Home and Health Telematics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, June 28-July 2, 2008, pp. 1-4, Rantz, M.J., Skubic, M., Miller, S.J., and Krampe, J. International.

Honors and awards

• Inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (1996)
• Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity in Behavioral and Social Sciences (2002)
• National Gerontological Nursing Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2005)
• MU Alumni Association Faculty Alumni Award (2006)
• Inducted as a Fellow in the Gerontological Society of America (2007)

Memberships

• Midwest Nursing Research Society (1985-present), Member of the Awards Committee (2005-2006), Gerontological Nursing Section, Chair (2000-2001), Awards Committee (2001-2002)
• American Academy of Nursing (1996-present), Member of the AAN Development Committee (2005), Member of the Communications and Publicity Committee (2003 to present)
• American Nurses' Association (1970-present)
• American Nurses' Association/Missouri Nurses Association: Government Affairs Committee (member 1995-1999), alternate member (1993-1995)
• American Nurses' Association/Wisconsin Nurses Association: Chairperson, WNA Convention Arrangements Committee (1984), Member of committee for convention (1981-1983, 1985)