Dr. Hofmann is an Associate Professor for the College of Nursing at the University of Utah. In this role she teaches baccalaureate and doctoral course focusing on advanced management and advanced finance in healthcare systems, quality improvment, and professional roles. Dr. Hofmann's background includes many years in the acute-care setting where she assumed various clinical and senior executive officer and administrative operations roles. She was responsible for patient care delivery, nrusing standards, and overall healthcare operations. Dr. Hofmann holds two ANCC board certifications, Nurse Executive and Nurse Executive Advanced. In addition she is an Executive Fellow of the Wharton School of Business Nurse Executive Program. Dr. Hofmann has been honored with numerous leadership, teaching and research awards. Her research interests are focused on the nursing workforce, evaluatung workload, patient acuity, novice to expert ratios and factors influencing stabilizing the nursing workforce with experienced and expert nurses. She curretnly serves on the Utah State Board of Nursing, volunteering her time to support and advance nursing in the state. Dr. Hofmann is a member and board member of numerous state and national professional organizations including the American Organization of Nurse Executives, and the American Nurses Association.
Research Statement
My program of research is focused to the nursing workforce. My recent dissertation research was a multiple method, qualitative study focused to describe how experienced nurses made decisions associated with intention to leave direct patient care. This state-wide study was aimed to be supportive of the experienced nurse and to inform the profession of nursing and healthcare organizations with regard to the experienced nurse’s professional desires regarding their career decisions. For the past several years I led collaborative nursing research conferences with various schools of nursing which provided nurses, students and faculty the opportunity to present their research and hear the latest from national leaders in nursing research. I also developed the Nursing Research Fellowship which has funded over 50 novice and expert nurse researchers working in hospital, homecare, hospice and clinic settings.