Research Overview
Dr. Green is the Director of Nursing Research at Arkansas Children’s Hospital and holds a faculty appointment in the UAMS College of Nursing. In December 2007, Dr. Green was installed as the Boyd Family Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing. This endowed chair in nursing is the first in Arkansas and one of very few pediatric nursing chairs in the country. Her research focuses on quality of life and psychosocial outcomes after pediatric heart transplantation. She has previously received funding from the National Institute of Nursing Research, the Society of Pediatric Nurses, and the Gamma Xi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International. She is the 2007 Southern Nursing Research Society/American Nurses Foundation Grant Scholar and is currently leading a qualitative study focusing on quality of life of adolescents after heart transplantation. Dr. Green is also involved in research focusing on maternal responses to high-risk obstetric telemedicine visits and pain assessment in cognitively impaired children. In addition, in her role as ACH Director of Nursing Research, she has the privilege of working with the ACH staff on research and evidence-based practice projects on a range of topics including obesity in children with congenital heart disease, improving family centered care, and evaluating work environments.
Key Publications*
Green, A, Meaux, J., Huett, A., Ainley, K. (2009). Constantly responsible, constantly worried, constantly blessed: parenting after pediatric heart transplant. Progress in Transplantation, 19( 2), 1-6.
Green, A., McSweeney, J., Ainley, K, Bryant, J. (2009). Comparing Parents’ and Children’s Views of Children’s Quality of Life After Heart Transplant. JSPN 14(1), 49-58.
Clark, A.M., Frost, M., Kuhn, J., Green, A., Gance-Cleveland, B., Kersten, R. (2007). Family Centered Care within an Infant-Toddler Unit. Pediatric Nursing, 33 (6), 481-486.
Green, A., McSweeney, J., Ainley, K., Bryant, J. (2007). In My Shoes: Children’s Quality of Life after Heart Transplant. Progress in Transplantation 17(3), 199-207.
Green, A., Ray, T. (2006). Attention to child development: A key piece of family centered care for cardiac transplant recipients. Journal of Specialists in Pediatric Nursing 11(2), 143-148.
Green, A. (2004). Outcomes of congenital heart disease: A review. Pediatric Nursing 30 (4), 280-284.
Pye, S., Green, A. (2003). Parent education after newborn congenital heart surgery. Advances in Neonatal Care 3(3), 147-156.
*To find additional publications by this author, please visit Pubmed Central, a National Institutes of Health-operated site for electronic distribution of life sciences research reports.
Research Support
American Nurses Foundation
