SCHOLAR DIRECTORY

Tania Von Visger, CNS, PCCN

The Ohio State University PhD
Biography

My interest in nursing began at a tender age of 14 and continues to blossom as I have grown professionally. At the graduate level, I have been able to expand my forces of influence to improve the care of patients and family beyond the bedside practice. At the doctoral level, I hope to contribute to the body of science providing evidence to clinical practice. As a critical care CNS managing hospitalized patients with PH, my interest had been in the dyspnea symptom management. Dyspnea serves as an indicator for patients with PH to seek health care; it may serve as the main trigger symptom leading undiagnosed patients to confirmation of PH. My passion to understand the patient’s experience of quality of life associated with PH disease progression led me to develop a clinical research study “Pulmonary Hypertension: Quality of Life” in 2010. My patients in the PH clinic show great variability in their descriptions of dyspnea. However, symptom surveys employed in prior PH studies are crude and reveal prevalence of dyspnea, rather than the quality (tightness, air hunger), intensity, frequency, duration, precipitating factors, co-occurring signs/symptoms (cough, sputum production, wheezing), or patient management strategies. Further research is required to construct evidence-based, patient-centered symptom appraisal and management interventions specific to this vulnerable population. I intend to extend my previous research by exploring the dyspnea using mixed-methods to describe the symptom’s sensory-perceptual characteristics and build a model of the dyspnea symptom experience for patients with PH. Jonas Scholarship will support this professional aspiration.

Notes

Research/Clinical Practice Area: Jonas Nurse Leader – Dyspnea Symptom Management in Pulmonary Hypertension Patients
Dissertation: Dyspnea Frequency and Pattern among PH patients across the trajectory of disease continumn

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