Delegation of Nursing Care

Patricia Kelly-Heidenthal earned a Diploma in Nursing from St. Margaret Hospital School of Nursing, Hammond, Indiana; a baccalaureate in nursing from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois; and a master's degree in nursing from Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois. She has worked as a staff nurse and as a school nurse. Pat has traveled extensively, teaching conferences for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. She was director of quality assurance for nursing at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics in Chicago, Illinois. Pat has taught at Wesley-Passavant School of Nursing, Chicago State University, and Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana. She is Professor Emerita, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana. Pat has taught fundamentals of nursing, adult nursing, nursing leadership and management, nursing issues, nursing trends, and legal aspects of nursing. She has taught nursing conferences in almost every state in the United States, as well as in Puerto Rico and Canada on quality improvement. Pat also teaches NCLEX reviews nationally with Health Education Systems, Inc., and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau and the American Nurses Association. She is listed in Who's Who in American Nursing, 2000 Notable American Women, and the International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women. Pat has served on the Board of Directors of Tri City Mental Health Center, St. Anthony's Home, and Mosby's Quality Connection. She is the editor and author of Nursing Leadership and Management, Delmar, 2003; Essentials of Nursing Leadership and Management, Delmar, 2004; and she contributed a chapter entitled "Preparing the Undergraduate Student and Faculty to Use Quality Improvement in Practice" to Improving Quality, Second Edition, by Claire Gavin Meisenheimer, Aspen, 1997. Pat has written several articles, including "Chest X-Ray Interpretation" and many articles on quality improvement. Pat is a disaster volunteer for the American Red Cross and volunteers at a church food pantry in Austin, Texas. Throughout much of her career, she has taught nursing at the university level and has continued to work part time as a staff nurse in the Emergency Department. This has allowed her to wear several hats and see nursing from many points of view. Pat currently lives in Austin, Texas, and can be reached at patkh1@aol.com. Maureen T. Marthaler earned a baccalaureate degree in nursing from Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois, and a master's degree in nursing education from DePaul University in Chicago. She taught at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Currently, Maureen is an assistant professor at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana. Maureen has taught fundamentals of nursing, adult nursing, nursing leadership and management, nursing ethos, and critical care nursing courses. She has taught nursing conferences on various neurological conditions, such as assessment, seizures, Guillian-Barre, Parkinson's Disease, and blood gas assessment. Maureen has also taught NCLEX reviews nationally. She is the treasurer for Mu Omega Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau and is a member of the National League for Nursing. Maureen contributed a chapter on delegation of nursing care to the Kelly-Heidenthal textbook published by Delmar, Nursing Leadership and Management, 2003. Maureen also wrote a continuing education program for Sigma Theta Tau International on delegation. Her most recent publication "SARS: What Have We Learned" in the nursing journal Registered Nurse, was co-authored with her colleagues at Purdue University Calumet. She has traveled to Romania and assisted a nursing school there with curriculum development. Throughout her career, she has continued to work part time as a staff nurse in the Intensive Care Unit at St. Margaret's Hospital in Hammond, Indiana. Maureen has been licensed as an RN for over 23 years. She is married to David, a very supportive husband. She is the mother of two wonderful teenage boys, Luke, 15, and Jake, 13. They live in Crete, Illinois, where Maureen can be reached at maureen@calumet.purdue.edu.Kelly-Heidenthal, Patricia is the author of 'Delegation of Nursing Care', published 2004 under ISBN 9781401814052 and ISBN 1401814050.