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Anita Catlin
 Anita
Catlin, Lambda Gamma's Past President and researcher,
originally attended nursing school in Israel. She then received
a bachelor's in nursing from Stanislaus State, a master's
with FNP from Sonoma State, and a doctorate in nursing and
an ethics certificate from Rush University in Chicago. She
has worked as a family nurse practitioner with a concentration
in maternal-child care. She is a professor of nursing at Napa
Valley College. She also works as an ethics consultant and
is one of a few nurses specializing in perinatal ethics and
doing funded research in this area. Anita has an ethics column
in the journal Pediatric Nursing. Dr. Catlin began her research
career with support from Sonoma State University's Lambda
Gamma Chapter and is most grateful for the chapter's continued
support. As a rural practitioner not associated with a major
hospital or university, the Lambda Gamma seed money has enabled
Anita to plan a series of studies that have impacted how dying
newborns and their families are
cared for. Anita has also received funding from the American
Academy of Pediatrics and the American Nurses Foundation,
who appointed her the Julia Hardy RN Scholar for health policy
issues in1999. In Anita's present study with research partner
Dr. Brian Carter, neonatologist from Vanderbilt University,
they have completed an Internet based national Delphi study
to create palliative care protocol for dying newborns. They
are presenting their work at the American Academy of Pediatrics,
the National Perinatal Association, the UC Davis Conference
on Health Care and Economics, the American Society of Bioethics
and Humanities, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
and the National Association of Neonatal Nursing. Anita's
neonatal end of life care work has been written about in the
American Academy of Pediatric Newsletter and the American
Medical Association Press. Her studies have been published
in Image, the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Neonatal Network,
MCN, and the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. She
is the author or editor of many pediatric and obstetric ethics
articles. Anita is eager to mentor students who have an interest
in research or ethics and is happy to answer questions at
acatlin@napanet.net
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