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11/27/2024

Introducing the New Corresponding Secretary

Olga F. Jarrín Montaner, PhD, RN, FAAN is a tenured associate professor in the School of Nursing at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (USA). From 2001-2010, Olga worked as a home health aide, home health nurse intern, visiting nurse/case manager, and clinical instructor in home health care while completing her nursing education (BS, MS, PhD) at the University of Connecticut. She then completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania in gerontological nursing and nursing outcomes research.

Olga presented her postdoctoral research1,2 on the relationship between home health agency work environments and outcomes for nurses and patients at the 2013 IHCNO Inaugural Conference held in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. This work was cited in the International Council of Nurses (ICN) 2020 International Nurses Day Report.

Olga worked with Dr. Elizabeth Madigan on the IHCNO’s first study to outline a global agenda for the future of home care3 that was presented at the IHCNO 2015 conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA (presenting author: Fatemah Pouladi), the 2015 Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Research Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico (presenting author: Olga Jarrín) and the 2016 WHO Collaborating Centres for Nursing and Midwifery Conference in Glasgow, Scotland (presenting author: Elizabeth Madigan).

More recently, Olga’s home care-related research has focused on issues of equity and access to care,4-7 and demonstrating the value and impact of home health care on later end-of-life care outcomes, including use of home hospice.8-10

  1. Jarrín OF, Flynn L, Lake ET, Aiken LH. Home health agency work environments and hospitalizations. Medical Care, 52(9), 877-883, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000000188
  2. Jarrín OF, Kang Y, Aiken LH. Pathway to better patient care and nurse workforce outcomes in home care. Nursing Outlook, 65(6), 671-678, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2017.05.009
  3. Jarrín OF, Pouladi FA, Madigan EA. International priorities for home care research, education, practice, and management: Qualitative content analysis. Nurse Education Today, 73, 83-87, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2018.11.020
  4. Smith JM, Jarrín OF, Lin H, Tsui J, Dharamdasani T, Thomas-Hawkins C. Racial disparities in post-acute home health care referral and utilization among older adults with diabetes. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 18, 3196, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18063196
  5. Smith JM, Lin H, Thomas-Hawkins C, Tsui J, Jarrín OF. Timing of home health care initiation and 30-day rehospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes by race and ethnicity. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 18, 5623, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115623
  6. Fashaw‐Walters SA, Rahman M, Jarrín OF, Gee G, Mor V, Nkimbeng M, Thomas KS. Getting to the root: Examining within and between home health agency inequities in functional improvement. Health Services Research, 59(2):e14194, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.14194
  7. Jung D, Jarrín OF, Choi JH, Knox S, Emerson KG, Chen Z. The role of neighborhood socioeconomic status in institutionalization of home health care patients with and without Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. JAMDA: The Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, 25(9):105170, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2024.105170
  8. Lin H, Grafova IB, Zafar A, Setoguchi S, Roy J, Kobylarz FA, Halm EA, Jarrín OF. Place of care in the last three years of life for Medicare beneficiaries. BMC Geriatrics, 24: 91–91, 2024. https://bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12877-023-04610-w
  9. Kim H, Duberstein P, Lin H, Wu B, Zafar A, Jarrín OF. Home health care and hospice use among Medicare beneficiaries with and without a diagnosis of dementia. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 27(6):776-783, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2023.0583
    10. Kim HD, Duberstein PR, Zafar A, Wu B, Lin H, Jarrín OF. Home health care use and place of death in Medicare beneficiaries with and without dementia. The Gerontologist, 64(11):gnae131, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnae131

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