Beverly Carlson

Phone:	(619) 203-3483
Office:	HT 51
Office Hours:	By Appointment
Email:	bcarlson@mail.sdsu.edu

Education:

• MS, Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist Concentration, SDSU

Scholarly Areas:

All aspects of Critical Care Nursing, especially shock and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome; Management of Patients with Heart Failure, especially the conceptual understanding and measurement of factors influencing health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and the development of strategies to improve HRQOL with a particular emphasis on the concept and measurement of self-care in HF (SCHF) and strategies to influence SCHF.

Biography:

Beverly Carlson is a lecturer in the Graduate Advanced Practice Nursing of Adults and Elderly Program and the Undergraduate Bachelor of Science Nursing Program at San Diego State University in San Diego, California. Beverly is a Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist with an extensive background in critical care nursing and education. She also has a substantial background in disease management and outcomes research, primarily pertaining to patients with heart failure (HF). From 1995 through 2007, she served as the Project Director for multiple single and multi-site national and international studies of various approaches to the management of cardiac disease. She is a coauthor of Self-Care of Heart Failure Index (SCHFI), an original tool developed with Dr. Barbara Riegel to measure self-care abilities of patients with HF.

Ms. Carlson has an extensive history of local and national professional presentations. She is widely published in the professional literature and serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, the American Journal of Critical Care Nursing, and the Journal of Cardiac Failure. She has been an active member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses since 1973 and was a founding board member of the San Diego Chapter of AACN. She has been certified as a CCRN since 1978. She is also an active member of the American Heart Association (AHA) Nursing Council and the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA).

Ms. Carlson is currently pursuing her PhD in Nursing through the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Nursing with a focus on perceived health status and adherence in the HF population.

Selected Publications:

• Carlson, B (2010) Shock. In Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management, 6th ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 977-1001.

• Keating, S, Carlson, B, Jimenez, S, Estrada, J, Gastelum, B, Romero, T, and Riegel, B (2009) Psychometric Testing of the Immigrant Barriers to Healthcare Scale: Hispanic Version. Nursing and Health Sciences. 11: 235-243.

• Jurgens, C.Y., Moser, D.K., Armola, R., Carlson, B, Sethares, K, and Riegel, B (2009) Symptom Clusters of Acute Heart Failure. Research in Nursing & Health. 32: 551-560.

• Riegel, B, Driscoll, A, Suwanno, J, Moser, DK, Lennie, TA, Chung, ML, Wu, J, Dickson, VV, Carlson, B, and Cameron, J (2009) Heart Failure Self-Care in Developed and Developing Countries. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 15: 508-516.

• Aitken, LM, Pelter, MM, Carlson, B, Marshall, AP, Cross, R, McKinley, S, and Dracup, K (2008) Effective strategies for implementing a multicenter international clinical trial. Journal of Nursing Scholarship. 40: 101-108.

• Riegel, B, Moser, DK, Rayens, MK, Carlson, B, Pressler, SJ, Shively, M, Albert, NM, Armola, R, Evangelista, L, Westlake, CW, and Sethares, K (2008) Ethnic differences in quality of life in persons with heart failure. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 14: 41-47.

• Carlson, B, Fitzsimmons, L, and Pagano, L (2008) Shock and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome. In Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 5th ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 536-566.

• Dracup, K, McKinley, S, Doering, L.V., Riegel, B., Meischke, H., Moser, D.K., Pelter, M., Carlson, B., Aitken, L., Marshall, A., Cross, R., and Paul, S.M. (2008) Acute coronary syndrome: What do patients know?. Archives of Internal Medicine. 168: 1049-1054.

• Nuckols, T.K., Paddock, S.M., Bower, A.G., Rothschild, J.M., Fairbanks, R.J., Carlson, B., Panzer, R.J., and Hiborne, L.H. (2008) Costs of intravenous adverse drug events in academic and non-academic intensive care units. Medical Care. 46: 17-24.

• Riegel, B, Carlson, B, Glaser, D, and Romero, T (2006) Randomized controlled trial of telephone case management in Hispanics of Mexican origin with heart failure. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 12: 211-219.

• Carlson, B (2006) Shock. In Thelan’s Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management, 5th ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 1009-1031.

• Leventhal, MJE, Riegel, B, Carlson, B, and De Geest, S (2005) Negotiating compliance in heart failure: Remaining issues and questions. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. 4: 298-307.

• Riegel, B, and Carlson, B (2004) Is individual peer support a promising intervention for persons with heart failure?. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. 19: 174-183.

• Riegel, B, Carlson, B, Moser, DK, Sebern, M, and Hicks, FD (2004) Psychometric testing of the self-care of heart failure index. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 10: 350-360.

• Chriss, PM, Sheposh, J, Carlson, B, and Riegel, B (2004) Predictors of successful heart failure self-care maintenance in the first three months after hospitalization. Heart & Lung. 33: 345-353.

• Riegel, B, Carlson, B, Glaser, D, and Romero, T (2003) Changes over six months in health-related quality of life in a matched sample of Hispanic and non-Hispanics with heart failure. Quality of Life Research. 12: 689-698.

• Riegel, B., Moser, D., Carlson, B., Deaton, C., Armola, R., Sethares, K., Shively, M., Evangelista, L., and Albert, N. (2003) Gender differences in quality of life with heart failure are minimal. Journal of Cardiac Failur. 9: 42-48.

• Riegel, B, Carlson, B, Kopp, Z, LePetri, B, Glaser, D, and Unger, A (2002) Effect of a standardized nurse case-management telephone intervention on resource use in patients with chronic heart failure. Archives of Internal Medicine. 162: 705-712.

• Riegel, B, and Carlson, B (2002) Facilitators and barriers to heart failure self-care. Patient Education and Counseling. Patient Education and Counseling. 46: 289-297.

• Riegel, B, Moser, D, Glaser, D, Carlson, B, Deaton, C, Armola, R, Sethares, K, and Shively, M (2002) The Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire: Sensitivity and responsiveness to intervention intensity in a clinical population. Nursing Research. 51: 209-218.

• Riegel, B., Bennett, J.A., Davis, A., Carlson, B., Montague, J., Robin, H., and Glaser, D. (2002) Cognitive impairment in heart failure: Issues of measurement and etiology. American Journal of Critical Care. 11: 520-528.

• Riegel, B., Carlson, B., Glaser, D., Kopp, Z., and Romero, T. (2002) Standardized telephonic case management in a Hispanic heart failure population: An effective intervention. Disease Management and Health Outcomes. 10: 241-249.

• Carlson, B, Riegel, B, and Moser, D (2001) Self-care abilities of patients with heart failure. Heart & Lung. 30: 351-359.

• Riegel, B., Carlson, B., Glaser, D., and Hoagland, P. (2000) Which patients with heart failure respond best to multidisciplinary disease management?. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 6: 290-299.

• Riegel, B., Thomason, T., Carlson, B., Bernasconi, B., Hoagland, P., Maringer, D., and Watkins, J. (1999) Implementation of a multidisciplinary disease management program for heart failure patients. Congestive Heart Failure. 5: 164-170.

• Carlson, B, Riegel, B, and Thomason, T (1998) Visitation: Policy versus practice. Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing. 17: 40-47.

• Means (Carlson), B, and Taplett, L Quick Reference To Critical Care Nursing. Rockville, MD: Aspen, 1986.