Co-operative Membership
Leadership, Systems, Informatics, and Policy Co-operative

Mailing Address:

School of Nursing
University of Minnesota
5-140 Weaver-Densford Hall
308 Harvard Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Educational Background:

• BSN, 1975, Nursing/Math, Viterbo College, LaCrosse, WI
• MA, 1978, Nursing, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
• PhD, 1986, Educ Adm/Comptr App, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
• Postdoctoral, 1988, Nursing Informatics, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Positions:

• 1984-87: Assistant Professor, Luther College, Decorah, IA
• 1987-93: Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
• 1989-present: Adjunct Clinical Staff/Adjunct Director - Nursing Informatics, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
• 1992-99: Clinical Consultant - Informatics, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Iowa City, IA
• 1993-02: Associate Professor, College of Nursing, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
• 2002-05: Professor, College of Nursing, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
• 2005-present: Emeritus Professor, College of Nursing, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
• 2005-present: Dean & Professor, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• 2005-present: Professor, Medical School, Health Informatics Division of Dept. of Laboratory Med. & Pathology, U. Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Honors:

• 1977-present: Sigma Theta Tau, International Honor Society of Nursing, Member (Gamma, Nu Epsilon/92; PhPhi/00)
• 1998-present: Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
• 2001: Sigma Theta Tau International, Region 2, Educational Technology Award "The International Nursing Informatics Education Collaboratory"
• 2004-present: Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications:

• Delaney, C. & Mehmert, P. (1990). Electronic transfer of clinical NMDS facilitates nursing diagnoses validation [paper]. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC) (pp. 899-90). Washington: IEEE Computer Society Press.
• Delaney, C., Rama, D., & Svinivasan, P. (1992). Design of a temporal database for phlebitis. In G.H. Hedrick & J. Berghel (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1992 symposium on applied computing (pp. 204-209). Stillwater, OK: Oklahoma State University.
• Delaney, C., Mehmert, P., Prophet, C., Bellinger, S., Gardner, D., & Ellerbe, S. (1992). Standardized nursing language for healthcare information systems. Journal of Medical Systems, 16(4), 145-159.
• Delaney, C., Gardner, D., Mehmert, M., Crossley, J., & Ellerbe, S. (1994). A nursing management minimum data set. [Paper]. In S. Grobe (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Nursing Use of Computers and Information Science (pp. 155-157).
• Delaney, C., Mehmert, P., Prophet, C., & Crossley, J. (1994). Establishment of the research value of nursing minimum data sets [paper]. In S. Grobe (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Nursing Use of Computers and Information Science. (pp. 169-173).
• Delaney, C. & Moorhead, S. (1995). The nursing minimum data set, standardized language and health care quality. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 10(1), 16-30.
• Ryan, P., & Delaney, C. (1995). The nursing minimum data set. In J. Fitzpatrick (Ed.), Annual Review of Nursing Research (vol. 13) (pp. 169-194). New York: Springer Publishing.
• Delaney, C. (1996). Use of nursing informatics in advanced nursing practice roles for building healthier populations. (Clinical Innovations) Journal for Advanced Nursing Quarterly, 1(4), 48-53.
• Delaney, C. (1996). Significance of the nursing minimum data set for decision support in acute care. In B. Heller, M. Mills, & C. Romano (Eds.), Information management: Strategies and support for data driven decisions in nursing and health care, (pp. 31-38). West Dundee, IL: S-N Publications.
• Delaney, C. & Moorhead, S. (1997). Synthesis of methods, rules and issues of standardized nursing intervention language mapping. Nursing Diagnosis, 8(4), 152-156.
• Huber, D., Schumacher, L., & Delaney, C. (1997). Nursing management minimum data set (NMMDS). Journal of Nursing Administration, 27(4), 42-48.
• Warren, J., Delaney, C., & Ryan, P. (1997). Health care reform in an electronic world: Information systems and the computerized patient record (CPR). In M. Rantz & P. LeMone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th NANDA Conference (pp. 385-399). Glendale, CA: CINAHL Information Systems.
• Delaney, C., Mehmert, P., & Johnson, D. (1997). The evolving role of the informatics nurse. In Series on nursing administration (SONA), Nursing roles: Evolving or recycled, Vol. 9. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Averill, C., Marek, K., Zielstorff, R., Kneedler, J., Delaney, C. & Milholland, K. (1998). ANA Standards for Nursing Data Sets in Information Systems. Computers in Nursing, 16(3), 157-161.
• Prophet, C., & Delaney, C. (1998). Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC): Implications for nursing information systems (NISs) and the computer-based patient record. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 12(5), 21-29.
• Clark, J., Rosenberg, M. Craft, & Delaney, C. (2000). An international methodology to describe clinical nursing phenomena: A team approach. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 37, 541-553.
• Delaney, C., M. Ruiz, M. Clarke, M., & P. Srinivasan. (2000). Knowledge discovery in databases: Data mining the NMDS. In V. Saba, R. Carr, W. Sermeus, & P. Rocha (Eds.). One step beyond: The evolution of technology & nursing, Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Nursing Informatics (pp.61-65).
• Marin, H., Rodrigues, R., Delaney, C., Nielsen, G., Yan, J. (editors). (2000). Building Standard-Based Nursing Information Systems. Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, Division of Health Systems and Services Development. Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization.
• Delaney, C., Reed, D., & Clarke, M. (2000). Describing patient problems & nursing treatment patterns using Nursing Minimum Data Sets (NMDS & NMMDS) and UHDDS repositories. In J. M. Overhage (Ed.). AMIA 2000 Converging Information, Technology, & Health Care, (pp. 176-179).
• Volrathongchai, K., Delaney, C., Phuphaibul, R. (2003) The development of NMDSs in Thailand. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 43(6), 1-7.
• Delaney, C., Brennan, P., McDaniel, A., Keenan, G., & Cullen, P. (2003). Research in nursing informatics: Naming, claiming, & changing health outcomes. [Paper] In H. Marin, E. Marques. E. Having, & W. Goossen (Eds.). Proceedings of the 8th International Congress in Nursing Informatics, (pp. 405-408)
• Maas, M., & Delaney, C. (2004). Nursing process outcome linkage: An assessment in literature & issues. Medical Care, 42(suppl. 2), II-40-II-48.
• Park, M., Delaney, C., Maas, M., & Reed, D. (2004). Enhanced Nursing Care Profile of Elder Patients with Dementia Using Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) in an Acute Care Setting. Journal of Advanced Nursing.
• Gudmundsdottir, E., Delaney, C., Thoroddsen, A., & Karlsson, T. (2004). Translation & Validation of the Outcomes Classification Labels & Definitions for Acute Care Nursing in Iceland. Nursing, 46(3), 292-302.
• Weaver, C., Warren, J., & Delaney, C. (2005). Bedside, Bench and Classroom: Collaborative Strategies to Generate Evidence-based Knowledge for Nursing Practice. International Journal of Medical Informatics.
• Goossen, W., Delaney, C., Coenen, A. (2005). International Nursing Minimum Data Set (iNMDS). [Paper] 5th European Conference of ACENDIO Slovenia, pp.31-34.
• Coenen, A., Behn, V., Delaney, C., Ehnfors, M., Feringa, G., Goossen, W., Khampalikit, S., & Murphy, M. (2005). The International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP): review & recommended revisions of BETA 2. [Paper] 5th European Conference of ACENDIO Slovenia, pp.143-144.
• Johannesdottir, J. Delaney, C., Thoroddsen, A. (2005). Acute Care Nursing Assessments & Relationship to Nursing Outcomes. [Paper] 5th European Conference of ACENDIO Slovenia, pp.258-260.
• Clancy, T. & Delaney, C. (in press). Complex Nursing Systems. Journal of Nursing Management.