Anita Catlin's Home Page
Dr. Anita Catlin, DNSc, FNP, FAAN
Office Nichols 274
Phone 707-664-2640
Office Hours
Monday 1:00-3:00 and daily by appointment
To contact, please email at: catlin@sonoma.edu
In emergencies, you may call me on my cell at 707-486-7998
Courses
- Healthcare Ethics N505
- Healthcare Policy N504
- Theory and Senior Clinical Contract Development N415
- Introduction to Research N300/Scholarly Inquiry N500A
- Sociopolitical Nursing N 450
- Senior Clinical Preceptorships, N425
Coordinator: Master's in Leadership and Management - Education and Administration Concentrations
Bio:
Background and Education:
My name is Anita Catlin and I am a nurse researcher and Professor of Nursing. My specialty is perinatal ethics and I also work as an ethics consultant. I have a family nurse practitioner master's degree, a doctorate in maternal child nursing from Rush University , and a certificate in ethics consultation also from Rush University in Chicago . I have worked as a nurse practitioner providing prenatal and well client care.
Research and Authorship:
My research on end of life care for newborns has been written about in journals and newspapers and featured on CNN television. I have published many ethics related articles and I have a column in the journal Pediatric Nursing and write regularly for the National Association of Neonatal Nurses. I review for the Journal of Advanced Nursing, American Journal of Nursing, JOGNN-Journal of Gynecologic, Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing, the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing, Nursing Forum, the Journal of Perinatology and Advances in Neonatal Nursing. I recently joined the Editorial Board of the American Academy of Pediatrics Journal of Perinatology.
Professional Memberships:
I'm on the National Board of the National Perinatal Association, on the Medical Advisory Board of the Intersex Society of North America, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, past chair of the Napa County Mental Health Commission, and am active in the National Association of Neonatal Nurses, the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing, and Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor Society of Nursing. I am newly appointed to the American Nurses Association Council on Ethics and Human Rights. My assignments there are to write position papers on Moral Distress in Nursing and Assisted Suicide, and participate in revisions of the Nurses Coded of Ethics. I presently Co-Chair the Kaiser Santa Rosa Ethics Committee and served 5 years on the Queen of the Valley Hospital Ethics Council. I consult in hospitals in the U.S. and abroad. In 2004 I spent 10 days in Portugal where I worked with their National Ethics Council on issues of futility. I am presently a Research Consultant for the Kaiser Santa Rosa Organization.
Professional Activities:
In addition to teaching at Sonoma State University , I travel a lot, teaching and speaking about healthcare ethics. I have been funded by the American Academy of Pediatrics for work in neonatal resuscitation ethics, by the American Nurses Foundation for work in health policy research, by the State of California for research in education, by the National Perinatal Foundation for work on infants who are too ill to be discharged and by our local Sigma Theta Tau chapter. In 2001 I received the Model of Care Award for the Neonatal End of Life Protocol from the National Perinatal Association and the Research Abstract of the Year Award in 2005 from the National Association of Neonatal Nurses . Right now I am a past president of the Nurses Subsection of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities. I serve as a Johnson and Johnson Pediatrics Institute/Sigma Theta Tau Maternal Child Leadership Fellow. I attended Sonoma State University for my master's degree, served as President of the SSU Sigma Theta Tau chapter, and I am very happy to be working here as a faculty member. Mentoring students in research, publishing, ethics, and professional development is my real area of interest.
Current Research :
I am currently working on the topic of trying to define when the efforts at curative care for children stop and the transition begins for purely palliative care. If you are a registered nurse or physician and would like to participate in this research study, please click on to my research site at www.sonoma.edu/projects/neonatal .