Janice B Foust, PhD, RN
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nursing
Contact Information
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4217
UNITED STATES
email: jfoust@nursing.upenn.edu
Dr. Foust is a Nurse Research Associate at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), Center for Home Care Policy and Research. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of New Hampshire in 1978, her Masters of Science in Nursing from Boston College in 1985 and her PhD from University of Pennsylvania in 1994.
She has a longstanding commitment to improving post-hospital transitions for older adults as both a clinician and scholar. Her dissertation was a qualitative study describing nurses' discharge planning efforts. She was also an Advanced Practice Nurse on a transitional care study led by Dr. Mary Naylor. She was a John A. Hartford Foundation Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity post-doctoral scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (2003-2005). Building on her clinical experience and dissertation, her post-doctoral work focused on describing the problems of hospital discharge medication reconciliation as a critical issue of transition.
Dr. Foust's research aims to identify effective, interdisciplinary interventions to improve post-hospital transitions into home care; reduce transition-related problems of medication management; and improve self-management among recently discharged older adults into home care.
