Associate Professor

601 Elmwood Avenue, Box SON Rochester, NY 14642

Email: Sally_Norton@urmc.rochester.edu

Faculty Appointments: 2003 - Current. Assistant Professor, Secondary Appointment. University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (Medical Humanities). Rochester, NY, US.

Faculty Appointments: 2001 - Current. Assistant Professor. Elaine C. Hubbard Center for Nursing Research on Aging, University of Rochester School of Nursing (Aging). Rochester, NY, US.

Professional Experience: 2003 - Current. Co-Director. Center for Ethics, Humanities, and Palliative Care, University of Rochester Medical Center (Research and Performance Improvement). Rochester, NY, US.

Role: Co-I, End-of-Life Quality of Care in Nursing Homes. 10/2008 - 9/2012. NIH/NINR .

Role: PI, Palliative Care in the Acute Care Setting. 7/2005 - 3/2010. National Institute of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research.

Role Co-I, Understanding End-of-Life Practice Patterns in NYS Nursing Homes. 10/2006 - 10/2007. Upstate Palliative Care Research Consortium, Foundation for Healthy Living.

Role: Consultant, Family Surrogate Decision-Making in Advanced Cancer. 9/2005 - 8/2007. National Institute of Nursing Research.

Transforming ICUs to Retain Staff and Improve Unit Outcome. 7/2004 - 6/2007. Department of Health and Human Services.

Role: Co-I, Cost-Benefit Analysis of Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation. 5/2006 - 4/2007. Partial support from Excellus and the Fraser-Parker Foundation.

Palliative Care Research. 7/2003 - 6/2005. Fraser-Parker Foundation.

ICU Culture and Problematic Treatment Limitation Cases. 8/2001 - 5/2004. National Institute of Nursing Research.

Assessing the Needs of VA Patients with Advanced Cancer. 10/1999 - 10/2002. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Proxy Decision-Making Near the End of Life. 10/2000 - 9/2001. American Nurses Foundation.

End-of-Life Research and Ethics. 6/1999 - 6/2001. Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Nursing.

Proxy Decision-Making Near the End of Life. 6/2000 - 11/2000. Beta Psi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau.

Nurses Perceptions and Use of Advance Directives. 4/1997 - 4/1999. National Institute of Health, National Institute for Nursing Research.

Building Health Systems for People with Chronic Illness. 5/1995 - 4/1996.

Temkin-Greener, H., Zheng, N., Norton, S., Quill, T., Ladwig, S., Veazie, P.. (n.d.). Measuring End-of-Life Care Processes in Nursing Homes. The Gerontologist.

Wiegand, D., Norton, S. A., and Baggs, J. G.. (2008). Challenges in Conducting End of Life Research in Critical Care. AACN Advanced Critical Care, 10 (2), 170-177.

Shah M.J., Quill T.E., Norton S.A., Lam Y., Buckley M. and Fridd C.. (2008). "What's bothering you the most: Concerns of palliative care patients.". American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine, 25 (2), 88-92.

Norton, S. A., Hogan, L., Holloway, R., Temkin Greener, H., Buckley, M., & Quill, T. E. . (2007). Proactive Palliative Care in the Medical Intensive Care Unit: Reducing Length of Stay for Selected High Risk Patients. Critical Care Medicine, 35 (6), 1530-1535.

Baggs, J. G., Norton, S. A., Schmitt, M. H., Dombeck, M. T., Sellers, C. R., & Quinn, J. R. . (2007). ICU Cultural Environments and End-of-Life Decision Making. Journal of Critical Care, 22 (2), 159-168.

Quill, T., Norton, S., Shah, M., Lam, Y., Fridd, C. & Buckley, M. (2006). What is Most Important for you to Achieve? Initial Responses from Patients Receiving Palliative Care Consultation. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 9 (2), 382-388.

Bowers, B.J., Esmond, S.E., Norton, S.A., Holloway, E. (2006). The Consumer/Provider Relationship as Care Quality Mediator. Consumer Voice and Choice in Long Term Care, 153-166.

Murphy, N., Canales, M., Norton, S. A., & DeFilippis, J.. (2005). Striving for Congruence: The Interconnection Between Values, Practice and Political Action. Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice, 6 (1), 20-29.

Baggs, J.G., Dombeck, M., Quinn, J.R., Norton, S.A., Schmitt, M., Sellers, C.R.. (2004). Limitations of Treatment Decision Making in the ICU: An Ethnographic Study (Symposium Abstracts). 2004 Congress Proceedings: National Congress on the State of the Science in Nursing Research, 80-85.

Baggs, J.G., Norton, S.A., Schmitt, M.H., & Sellers, C.R.. (2004). The Dying Patient in the ICU: Role of the Interdisciplinary Team. Critical Care Clinics, 20 (3), 525-540.

Norton, S.A. & Quill, T.E.. (2004). Complex Questions Embedded in Tracheotomy Decisions. Head & Neck, 26 (1), 75-76.

Norton, S.A., Baggs, J.G., Schmitt, M., Sellers, C.R., Quinn, J.R., Dombeck, M.T. (2004). ICU Family Meetings for Adults Near the End of Life: Unpacking a Common Intervention. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 7 (160).

Hart, K.D., Norton, S.A.. (2003). Legal and Ethical Issues in Disaster Response. In T. G. Veenema (Ed.), Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards, 82-103.

Norton, S.A., Tilden, V.P., Tolle, S.W., Nelson, C.A., & Eggman, S.T.. (2003). Life Support Withdrawal: Communication and Conflict. American Journal of Critical Care, 12, 548-555.

Norton, S.A., Bowers, B.J.. (2001). Working Toward Consensus: Strategies to Shift Patients from Curative to Palliative Treatment Choices. Research in Nursing & Health, 24, 258-269.

Norton, S.A.. (2000). Research on End of Life Care: Provider Comfort and Experience: Two Conditions for End of Life Planning. Communicating Nursing Research, 33 (152).

Canales, M.K., Bowers, B., Norton, S.A.. (2000). Becoming Part of a Community: Teaching Strategies of Latina Nursing Faculty. Nursing and Health Care Perspectives, 21, 228-233.

Riesch, S.K., Von Sadovsky, V., Norton, S.A., Pridham, K.. (2000). Moral Reasoning Among Graduate Students in Nursing. Nursing Outlook, 48 (2), 73-80.

Norton, S.A., Talerico, K.A.. (2000). Facilitating End-of-Life Decision Making: Strategies for Communicating and Assessing. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 26 (9), 6-13.

Baker, C.A., Bowers, B., Ryther-Clark, B.J., Norton, S.A., Canales, M.K.. (1999). Self and Identity Through an Interactionist Lens: Constructions and Consequences. International Images of Health: Perspectives, Power and Practice, 66-77.

Baker, C., Norton, S.A., Young, T., Ward, S.. (1998). An Exploration of Methodological Pluralism in Nursing Research. Research in Nursing and Health, 21, 545-557.

Bowers, B., Esmond, S., Holloway, E., Norton, S.A. (1996). Quality Care: The Perspectives of Frail Elderly. Wisconsin Bureau of Long Term Support, Division of Community Services, Department of Health and Family Services.

Proactive Palliative Care Consultation in the Medical ICU: A Model for Nurse Managers.
University of Rochester

Proactive Palliative Care Consultation in the Medical ICU: A Model for Nurse Managers.
University of Rochester Medical Center Clinical Nurse Leadership Meeting, University of Rochester

Proactive Palliative Care in the Medical Intensive Care Unit.
Annual Meeting, American Association of Hospice and Palliative Car

They're Not Ready Yet: Time and Timing in End of Life Decision Making.
Annual Meeting, American Association of Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association

Proactive Palliative Care Consultation in the Medical ICU.
University of Rochester Medical Center Palliative Care Rounds, University of Rochester

ICU Cultural Environments and End-of-Life Decision Making.
Annual Meeting, Gerontological Society of America

What Bothers You Most? Responses From Patients Receiving Palliative Care Consultation.
Annual Meeting, American Geriatrics Society

Limitation of Treatment Decision Making in the ICU: An Ethnographic Study.
Annual Meeting, National Congress for the State of the Science

Integrating Performance Improvement and Research into a Palliative Care Clinical Consultation Service: Challenges and Opportunities.
Management and Leadership Conference, National Association of Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

Palliative Care in the ICU: The IHI Project, with Robert Holloway, M.D. and Expert Clinical Panel.
University of Rochester Medical Center Biopsychosocial Rounds, University of Rochester

Palliative Care Consultations: 2 Years and Counting with Timothy Quill, M.D. and Jeffrey Allen, M.D.
Biopsychosocial Rounds, University of Rochester Medical Center

ICU Culture and Family Meetings for Older Adults Near the End of Life.
Annual Meeting, Gerontological Society of America

Working With People Near the End of Life.
United Methodist Church

Nursing Homes, Ethics, and Life Sustaining Treatment Limitation.
University of Rochester Interdisciplinary Clinical Ethics Rounds, University of Rochester

Family Meetings: Culture, Structure and Function in Three ICU Settings.
Annual Conference, Eastern Nursing Research Society

Palliative Care in Acute Care Settings: New Horizons.
University of Rochester School of Nursing Research Forum, University of Rochester

The Symbolic Representation of Nursing Homes in Decisions to Limit Life-Sustaining Treatment Near the End of Life.
55th Annual Scientific Meeting, Gerontological Society of America

Values, Policy and Political Action.
12th Annual Conference, International Critical and Feminist Perspectives in Nursing

Shared Decision-Making Near the End of Life: Family Members' Perspectives.
14th Annual Scientific Sessions, Eastern Nursing Research Society

Facilitating Decision-Making Near the End of Life: A Systematic Review of End of Life Decision-Making in Long Term Care.
3rd Annual Conference, Evidence-Based Practice

Physicians Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment.
Presentation with Margaret M. Carley, RN, JD, Porthaven Care Center

Provider Comfort and Experience: Two Conditions of End-of-Life Care Planning.
Annual Meeting, American Public Health Association

The Role of Clinical Ethics Consult Services.
Presentation, Oregon Health Sciences University

Negotiating End-of-Life Decisions: A Grounded Theory Study.
Annual Meeting, Midwest Nursing Research Society

Building on a Legacy of Excellence in Nursing Research.
33rd Annual Communicating Nursing Research Conference, WIN Assembly

Ethics and End-of-Life Issues for Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare.
Trial Conference, Legacy Meridian Park Hospital

DNR and Advance Directives: Legal and Ethical Issues.
Ethics Symposium, Eldercare

Reconciling Decisions Near the End of Life: A Grounded Theory Study.
Annual Meeting, Midwest Nursing Research Society

Negotiating Decisions Near the End of Life.
Pain and Palliative Care Conference, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics

Trauma Ethics.
Trauma Course, Emergency Nurses Association

Patient Perceptions of Intravenous Patient Controlled Analgesics.
Research Day, Beta Eta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau

Reconciling Choices and Goals Near the End of Life.
Annual Meeting, Midwest Nursing Research Society

Negotiating Decisions Near the End of Life.
Annual Meeting, Wisconsin Nurses Association

Ethical and Professional Practice Issues and Trends.
Nursing Informatics Partnership Conference, Midwest Alliance in Nursing

Perceptions and Use of Advance Directives Near the End of Life.
Annual Research Day, Beta Eta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau

Nurses Perceptions and Use of Advance Directives.
Research Colloquium, University of Wisconsin School of Nursing

Nursing Ethics at the Bedside.
Edgewood College

Searching for an Explanation of Patient Satisfaction with Pain Management.
21st Annual Scientific Meeting, American Pain Society

Ethical Decision Making for Nurses.
Outreach and Continuing Education in Nursing Audiotape Series, University of Wisconsin

Exploring Dependency: Ethical and Political Consequences for Chronically Ill Persons.
School of Nursing Research Colloquium, University of Wisconsin

Issues in Knowledge Development in Nursing.
School of Nursing Research Colloquium, University of Wisconsin

End-of-Life Decision Making and Dependency: A Grounded Theory Study.
International Images of Health Conference, University of Ballarat

Multi-System Organ Failure: A Case Study.
University of Wisconsin, School of Nursing

Caring for Patients with Liver Disease; A Case Study.
University of Wisconsin, School of Nursing

Multi-System Organ Failure: A Case Study.
University of Wisconsin, School of Nursing

Caring for Patients with Liver Disease; A Case Study.
University of Wisconsin, School of Nursing

An Ethic of Care.
The Challenge of Ethical Decision Making Conference, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics

Psycho-Social Implications for the Critically Ill Patient and Family.
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics

Advanced Directives and Ethics in the Critical Care Arena.
Southwest Wisconsin Chapter of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses

Precepting Students and Staff.
Introductory Preceptor Workshop, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics

Fellow in Palliative Care Nursing.
Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association , 2009

Outstanding Faculty Colleague.
University of Rochester School of Nursing, 2007

Distinguished Practitioner.
National Academies of Practice, 2006

John A. Hartford Geriatric Nursing Research Award.
Eastern Nursing Research Society, 2002

The Promising New Investigator Award.
University of Rochester School of Nursing, 2002

John A. Hartford Geriatric Nursing Research Scholar.
Summer Research Institute at New York University, 2002

The Ada Sue Hinshaw Nurse Scholar Award.
Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research, 2000

Vilas Professional Development Award.
University of Wisconsin, 1999

Qualitative Section Dissertation Proposal Award of.
Midwest Nursing Research Society, 1998

Charles Eckburg Dissertation Scholarship Recipient.
, 1997

Annual Research Award.
Sigma Theta Tau Beta Eta Chapter, 1997

Nursing Excellence Scholarship.
American Association of Critical Care Nurses, 1992

Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association, Chair

Sigma Theta Tau International, Member

Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science

Eastern Nursing Research Society

Gerontological Society of America

American Nurses Association

New York State Nurses Association

American Anthropological Association