Krista Altaker

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Education

PhD in Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, 2016                   

MSN in Nursing Leadership, Education, Sonoma State University, 2011

BSN,  University of Washington, Tacoma, 1998                        

ASN,  Southern Adventist University, 1996       

Degrees

Academic Interests

2024     CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care: Campus Partner Grant ($66,000) over two years, to establish and sustain Sonoma State University as campus partner with the Institute to promote palliative care, build awareness and develop ongoing partnerships within campus and community. Co-Director: Dr. Adele Santana, Faculty in School of Business.

2017-19    CSU Quality Assurance Grant through SSU Faculty Center: Serve as Faculty Lead for SSU-based Program to promote quality online teaching. 

2019   Online Proven Course Redesign Program (OPCRP) – Implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) applications to bring an online GE course into compliance for anticipated university-wide requirements. Co-Recipient with Dr. Michelle Kelly.

Research

2018-19   Original research: a survey study of incoming post-licensure students’ knowledge, skills and attitudes around Palliative Care Nursing competencies, as part of larger project to integrate updated American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) palliative care competencies into nursing curricula.

2016   Original research: Verbal Processing in an Online Course; Using VoiceThread in an Online Nursing Research Class. Study conducted Fall 2016.

2016   Original research:  Moral Distress of Nurses and Palliative Care in the ICU; national survey of ICU nurses on palliative care in the ICU, and experience of moral distress of ICU nurses. Dissertation for Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing.

2011    Original research: “Integration of Internationally Educated Nurses into the US Workforce” Primary Investigator, a qualitative study exploring experiences of staff nurses and nurse managers.

Selected Publications & Presentations

Publications

2024          Altaker, K. (2024). Service Learning in Evidence Based Practice Course. Teaching and Learning in Nursing 19(3): e467-e470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teln.2024.02.001.

2023          Altaker, K., Machado, S., Nguyen, T., Johnson, P., Hu, A. & Murdock-Perreira, L. “Faculty Evaluation: How Bias Harms Valued Faculty and Proposed Changes for Equity” distributed on local campus.

2017          Altaker, K., Howie-Esquivel, J. & Cataldo, J. (2018). Relationships between Palliative Care, Ethical Climate, Empowerment, and Moral Distress among ICU Nurses. AJCC 27(4): 295-304.

2016          Altaker, K. (2016).  Moral Distress of Nurses and Palliative Care in the ICU. Dissertation published by UCSF.

2013          Wolcott, K., Llamado, S, & Mace, D. (2013). Integration of Internationally Educated Nurses into the US Workforce. Journal for Nurses in Professional Development. 29(5): 263-268.

Presentations

2019          Invited speaker and facilitator: Sutter Nursing Research Workshop: Part I: “Focus Your Spirit of Inquiry”, and Part II: “Translation of Research into Practice.” May 22, 2019. 

2019          CSU Palliative Care Institute Symposium: Research Poster presentation for study on Palliative Care Knowledge-Skills-Attitude; peer-reviewed. (October)

2018          Faculty and Graduate Research Symposium, SSU: Presented scholarly poster “Development of a Program to Facilitate and Standardize Online and Blended Teaching.” Collaboration with Dr Kristin Denver. (April)

2017          International Nursing Ethics Conference, Leuven Belgium, “Moral Distress of ICU Nurses. How Does Moral Resilience Fit?” Podium presentation, peer-reviewed. (September).

2017          Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society, Lambda Gamma Chapter Induction: Invited speaker - Research presentation “Palliative Care in the ICU and Moral Distress of Nurses.”  (February). 

2017          Faculty Research & Scholarship Symposium, SSU: Research poster presentation: “VoiceThread: Online Teaching Tool for Verbal Processing.” (May)

2017          Online and Blended Teaching Institute: Invited speaker - “Creating a space for engagement” teaching strategies presentation; and speaker in Discussion Panel. Sponsored by SSU Faculty Center (January)

2015          International Nursing Ethics Conference, International Care Ethics Observatory, Guildford, UK, University of Surrey: Podium presentation “Palliative Care in the ICU and Moral Distress of Nurses.” Peer reviewed.