Brief Bio

Lisa Day, PhD, RN, CNRN, is an Assistant Professor in the Duke University School of Nursing. Before coming to DUSON, was a Clinical Nurse Specialist for Neuroscience and Critical Care at the University of California-San Francisco Medical Center. Dr. Day graduated from Long Beach City College in California with an Associate Degree in nursing in 1984. She has worked as a nurse in a post-anesthesia recovery room, a medical cardiac critical care unit, and a neuroscience critical care unit. She completed her BSN, MS (Critical Care CNS), and PhD at the University of California-San Francisco School of Nursing. Her dissertation research (with Patricia Benner) focused on the nursing care of brain-injured patients identified as potential organ donors. Dr. Day has a passion for teaching second-degree students. Her teaching in the DUSON ABSN program is informed by eight years of experience teaching pre-licensure nursing in a Master’s Entry program and a strong interest in developing support systems for new graduates transitioning into nursing practice.

Dr. Day is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, American Association for Bioethics and Humanities, American Association of Neuroscience Nursing, North Carolina Nurses Association, and Sigma Theta Tau. She reviews manuscripts for Critical Care Nurse and the American Journal of Critical Care (AJCC) , and has authored the AJCC “Current Controversies” ethics column since 2005. Dr. Day was an invited speaker and consultant for the Helene Fuld Health Trust-funded project Evaluating the Outcomes of Accelerated Nursing Education (held at DUSON in 2007), and was an invited participant in the 2008 National League for Nursing Think Tank on Transforming Clinical Nursing Education. Dr. Day is an evaluation consultant for the Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education and was a consultant on clinical teaching strategies for the first phase of the Robert Wood Johnson-funded project Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN). Dr. Day also served as a consultant on the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s National Study of Nursing Education (Patricia Benner, director), and is one of the co-authors of the landmark publication ”Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation” reporting the results of that study.

Academic Program Affiliations

Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program
Doctor of Nursing Practice Program

Education

PhD	University of California, San Francisco
MS	University of California, San Francisco
BSN	University of California, San Francisco

Professional Certifications

CNRN	Certified Neuroscience Registered Nurse
CNE	Certified Nurse Educator
CNS	Clinical Nurse Specialist Certification

Research Interests

Research interests include:
● Nursing education and practice
● Moral development and professional formation of nursing students and nurses
● Transition to practice of new-graduate RNs and new-graduate advanced practice nurses
● Acute and critical care of adults
● Neuroscience
● Quality and safety of care

Awards and Honors

• 2012 Mary Killeen Visiting Scholar for Educational Excellence, Arizona State University

• 2008 Invited Participant, Think Tank on Transforming Clinical Nursing Education, National League for Nursing

• 2005 Invited Participant, National Conference on Donation after Cardiac Death, United Network for Organ Sharing

• 2001 Inducted, Sigma Theta Tau, Alpha Eta Chapter

Areas of Expertise

• Acute / Critical Care
• Adult Health
• Nursing Education
• Quality of Care / Patient Safety

Areas of Interest

• Bioethics
• Humanities
• Neuroscience
• Interpretive Phenomenology

Representative Publications

• 2012 -- Day, L. Neurologic surgery. In Perianesthesia Nursing Care: A Bedside Guide to Safe Recovery, edited by Stannard, D. & Krenzischek, D. A. 2012; pp. 259-262. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

• 2011 -- Pubmed # 21598861 Day, L. Using unfolding case studies in a subject-centered classroom. J Nurs Educ. May, 2011; 50(8); 1-6

• 2010 -- Pubmed # 20810419 Day, L. Health care reform, health, and social justice. Am J Crit Care. September, 2010; 19(5); 459-61

• 2010 -- Pubmed # 20436066 Day, L. Error, blame, and professional responsibility. Am J Crit Care. May, 2010; 19(3); 296-8

• 2009 -- Benner, P., Sutphen, M., Leonard, V., Day, L. Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation. December, 2009; San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass for The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

• 2009 -- Pubmed # 19723869 Day, L. Evidence-based practice, rule-following, and nursing expertise. Am J Crit Care. September, 2009; 18(5); 479-82

• 2009 -- Pubmed # 19556416 Day, L. Questions on organ donation and hastening death. Am J Crit Care. July, 2009; 18(4); 377-80

• 2009 -- Pubmed # 19411587 Day, L. Medical futility, personal goods, and social responsibility. Am J Crit Care. May, 2009; 18(3); 279-82

• 2009 -- Pubmed # 19116409 Day, L. What is documentation for? Am J Crit Care. January, 2009; 18(1); 77-80

• 2009 -- Day, L., Benner, P., Sutphen, M., Leonard, V. Reflections on clinical education: Insights from the Carnegie study. In Clinical Nursing Education: Current Reflections, edited by 2009; pp. 71-88. New York: National League for Nursing.

• 2008 -- Pubmed # 18776004 Benner, P., Sutphen, M., Leonard-Kahn, V., Day, L. Formation and everyday ethical comportment. Am J Crit Care. September, 2008; 17(5); 473-6

• 2008 -- Pubmed # 18310656 Day, L. Commercialism and the professional practice of healthcare providers. Am J Crit Care. March, 2008; 17(2); 164-7

• 2007 -- Pubmed # 17962506 Day, L. Courage as a virtue necessary to good nursing practice. Am J Crit Care. November, 2007; 16(6); 613-6

• 2007 -- Pubmed # 17724238 Jennings, A., Day, L. Exploration of power imbalances and communication are key. Am J Crit Care. September, 2007; 16(5); 430; author reply 430-1

• 2007 -- Pubmed # 17724248 Day, L. Simulation and the teaching and learning of practice in critical care units. Am J Crit Care. September, 2007; 16(5); 504-7

• 2007 -- Pubmed # 17524801 Day, L., Smith, E. L. Integrating quality and safety content into clinical teaching in the acute care setting. Nurs Outlook. August, 2007; 55(3); 138-43

• 2007 -- Pubmed # 17460323 Day, L. Lessons from the classics: conflict and tragedy in critical care at the end of life. Am J Crit Care. May, 2007; 16(3); 290-3

• 2007 -- Pubmed # 17322019 Day, L. Foundations of clinical ethics: disengaged rationalism and internal goods. Am J Crit Care. March, 2007; 16(2); 179-83

• 2007 -- Pubmed # 17192530 Day, L. Healing environments and the limits of empirical evidence. Am J Crit Care. January, 2007; 16(1); 86-9

• 2006 -- Pubmed # 16926373 Day, L. Industry gifts to healthcare providers: are the concerns serious? Am J Crit Care. September, 2006; 15(5); 510-3

• 2006 -- Pubmed # 16823022 Day, L. Advocacy, agency, and collaboration. Am J Crit Care. July, 2006; 15(4); 428-30

• 2006 -- Day, L. J. Brain death and organ donation. In Critical Care Nursing Secrets (2nd Ed.), edited by Puntillo, K. A. & Schell, H. May, 2006; pp. 780-5. Philadelphia, PA: Hanley & Belfus.

• 2006 -- Day, L. J. Feeding tubes: placement and management, in In Critical Care Nursing Secrets (2nd Ed.), edited by Puntillo, K. A. & Schell, H. May, 2006; pp. 524-8. Philadelphia, PA: Hanley & Belfus.

• 2006 -- Pubmed # 16632774 Day, L. Questions concerning the goodness of hastening death. Am J Crit Care. May, 2006; 15(3); 312-4

• 2006 -- Pubmed # 16501142 Day, L. Family involvement in critical care: shortcomings of a utilitarian justification. Am J Crit Care. March, 2006; 15(2); 223-5

• 2006 -- Pubmed # 16391319 Day, L. Distributive justice and personal responsibility for choices about health. Am J Crit Care. January, 2006; 15(1); 96-8

• 2005 -- Pubmed # 16249592 Day, L. Life-support technology, enframing, and disclosing. Am J Crit Care. November, 2005; 14(6); 551-4

• 2005 -- Pubmed # 16120895 Day, L. Nursing practice and civic professionalism. Am J Crit Care. September, 2005; 14(5); 434-7

• 2005 -- Pubmed # 15980425 Day, L. Boundaries of double effect. Am J Crit Care. July, 2005; 14(4); 334-7

• 2002 -- Pubmed # 11785560 Day, L., Benner, P. Ethics, ethical comportment, and etiquette. Am J Crit Care. January, 2002; 11(1); 76-9

• 2001 -- Pubmed # 11548563 Day, L. How nurses shift from care of a brain-injured patient to maintenance of a brain-dead organ donor. Am J Crit Care. September, 2001; 10(5); 306-12

• 2001 -- Pubmed # 11413660 Day, L., Stotts, N. A., Frankfurt, A., Stralovich-Romani, A., Volz, M., Muwaswes, M., Fukuoka, Y., O'Leary-Kelley, C. Gastric versus duodenal feeding in patients with neurological disease: a pilot study. J Neurosci Nurs. June, 2001; 33(3); 148-9, 155-9

• 2000 -- Pubmed # 11873744 Day, L. J. Decision making by surrogates. Crit Care Nurse. April, 2000; 20(2); 107-11

• 1999 -- Pubmed # 10661093 Day, L. J., Stannard, D. Developing trust and connection with patients and their families. Crit Care Nurse. June, 1999; 19(3); 66-70

• 1998 -- Day, L. J. Review of 'The wounded storyteller: Body, illness, and ethics', by Arthur Frank. Journal of Family Nursing. 1998; 4(1); 113-114

• 1995 -- Pubmed # 8568350 Day, L. Practical limits to the uniform determination of death act. J Neurosci Nurs. October, 1995; 27(5); 319-22

• 1995 -- Pubmed # 7714286 Day, L., Drought, T., Davis, A. J. Principle-based ethics and nurses' attitudes towards artificial feeding. J Adv Nurs. 1995; 21(2); 295-8

Grant Funding (selected)

• Gastric versus duodenal feeding in patients with neurologic disease  
  UCSF-Stanford Collaborative Clinical Research Initiative
  07/1997-06/2000
  Role: Principal Investigator