K. Jane Muir, PhD, MSHP, RN, FNP-BC
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Senior Fellow, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Secondary Appointment, Department of Emergency Medicine, Penn Medicine
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Dr. Jane Muir’s research leverages qualitative and quantitative methodologies to identify nursing models of care that advance accessible, timely, and equitable care outcomes for patients receiving care in community-facing settings such as hospital emergency departments and community health clinics.
Improving health care access and ensuring equitable outcomes in community-facing settings requires nurses’ unique expertise, from upstream investments in primary care to downstream improvements in hospital emergency departments.
Education
- PhD, University of Virginia, 2021
- MSHP, University of Pennsylvania, 2024
- MSN, University of Virginia, 2022
- BSN, University of Virginia, 2016
Innovation
The provision of high-quality patient care across all settings depends on cultivating a healthy nursing workforce and investments in nurses’ well-being. I have led School of Nursing and health system initiatives focused on improving trainee and clinicians’ on-the-job stress management ranging from Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction to Virtual Reality Interventions.
Social Justice
Dr. Muir’s work focuses on hospital emergency departments as an important intervention point to provide equitable care who are historically marginalized in the U.S. health care system. Most recently, Dr. Muir’s research focuses on improving health care access and quality outcomes for individuals with limited English proficiency, informed by both her emergency department background and current practice as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Puentes de Salud in Philadelphia.
Teaching
Dr. Muir is currently a co-instructor for NURS 3800/3820: Nursing in the Community and has prior teaching experience in Evidence-Based Practice, Acute Care Nursing, and Pathophysiology.
Research
Informed by a social-ecological lens, Dr. Muir’s research leverages the care of nurses and investments in their work environments to improve timely, equitable, and high-quality patient care outcomes as well as job outcomes for nurses (e.g., reduced job burnout). An important area of her work identifies how investments in better work environments for nurses is associated with diminished disparities in avoidable emergency department visits for individuals with limited English proficiency. She currently leads research investigating the role of nurse staffing ratios on health care access and waiting room delays for patients in emergency departments, and whether a hospitals’ safety net status differentiates care outcomes for patients in this setting. Finally, she works collaboratively with colleagues at Penn Medicine to identify inter-professional strategies to reduce workplace violence in hospital emergency departments for better patient and clinician outcomes.
Clinical Practice
Family Nurse Practitioner, Puentes de Salud, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Opportunities to Learn and Collaborate at Penn Nursing
Dr. Muir is core faculty at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Interdisciplinary collaboration is a core value of her research. She works closely with colleagues from Penn Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Puentes de Salud.
Selected Career Highlights
- Rising Star Award, AcademyHealth Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues, 2024
- Decade Award, University of Virginia School of Nursing Alumni Association, 2024
- Editorial Fellow, Journal of the American Medical Association, 2023-2024
- National Clinician Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 2022-2024
- Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues (IRGNI) Board, 2024
Accepting Mentees?
- Yes
Accepting Fellows?
- Yes
