Faculty Profile

617 West 168th St Mail Code 6
New York, NY 10032

Phone: 212-305-5542
Fax: 212-3056937

rmj4@columbia.edu

Education and Training

DNP Columbia University
MSN Seton Hall University
Ed. D Teacher's College

Rita Marie John, DNP, Ed.D, CPNP
Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing
PNP/NNP Program Director


Research/Clinical Interests

Pediatric Dermatology Primary care and behavioral Health
Pediatric Obesity Pediatric Depression Use of informatics in Advanced practice and in patient care

Selected Publications

John, R. (2009). The Child with a Headache In C. Burns, V. Richardson & M. Brady (Eds). Pediatric Primary Care Case Studies (321-334). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers
John, R (2009). Child with a Fever for Six Days In C. Burns, V. Richardson & M. Brady (Eds). Pediatric Primary Care Case Studies (231-251). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers
Bakken, S., John, R., & Currie, L. (2008). Advancing evidence-based practice and patient safety through integration of personal digital assistants into clinical nursing education. Nursing Outlook, 56(1) 38-40.
Pallavi, P. & John, R.M. (2008) Early Prevention and Identification of Childhood Caries. The Nurse Practitioner. 33(9, 40-48.
Schnall, R., Stone, P., Currie, L., Desjardins, K., John, R.M., Bakken, S. (2008) Development of a self-report instrument to measure patient safety attitudes, skills, and knowledge. Journal of Nurse Scholarship. 40(4):391-4.
John, R. Contributing author and question writer to C. E. Burns, A. M. Dunn, M. Brady, N. B. Starr, N. B., & C. Blosser, (Eds). (2008). Pediatric Primary Care, 4th Edition - A Handbook for Nurse Practitioners, St. Louis: Elsevier:
John, R. (2007). Beneficence, Prescriptions, and the Nurse Practitioner. Advance for Nurse Practitioner, 15, 55-57.
John, R., Buschman, P., Chaszara, M., Honig, J., Mendoca, E., Bakken, S. (2007). Development and Evaluation of a PDA-based Decision Support System for Pediatric Depression Screening, Medinfo. 12(Pt 2):1382-6.
John, R. (2007) Common Illness of the Neurological system. In Nancy Ryan-Wenger (Ed). Core curriculum for Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (638-673) By the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and Association of Faculties of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. St. Louis: Mosby.
John, R. (2007). Common Illness of the Neurological system. In Core Review for Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioners By National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and Association of Faculties of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. St. Louis: Mosby

Honors & Awards

2008 Inducted into the Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy, Columbia University School of Nursing
2006 21st Century Achievement Award for Education & Academia, Computerworld Honors Program, Columbia University School of Nursing
2005 Inducted into Seton Hall University School of Nursing Hall of Honor
1994 New Jersey certificate for nursing excellence

Committees

2008-2009 Network Committee for Columbia University
2004-2009 Member of the National Pediatric Certification Board Self Assessment Exercise Committee
2004-2008, 2009-2010 Curriculum Committee Columbia University School of Nursing

Professional Memberships

2000 Kappa Delta Pi: International Honor Society in Education
1997-present American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
1997-present Sigma Theta Tau, Alpha Zeta Chapter
1979-present NAPNAP