Kristy K. Martyn

Dr. Kristy Martyn, Associate Professor and Division Chair

Kristy K. Martyn, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC, FNP-BC

Associate Professor
Division Chair
Division of Health Promotion and Risk Reduction (Div. II)
Room 3160

University of Michigan School of Nursing
400 North Ingalls Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5482

Telephone: (734) 763-5597
Fax: (734) 647-0351

Scholarly Expertise / Activity

Interests:

  • Access to person-centered health care
  • Adolescent sexual risk assessment and provider communication
  • Event History Calendars
  • Qualitative research
Dr. Kristy Martyn is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) and Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) who has more than 20 years of experience in primary health care and in research with adolescents from diverse populations. Her program of research focuses on increasing access to person-centered health care for child, adolescent and young adult populations. During the past 10 years, Dr. Martyn has conducted extensive preliminary work to develop an event history calendar (EHC) for person-centered adolescent and young adult risk behavior assessment and communication with nurse practitioners and physicians in primary health care settings. More recently, Dr. Martyn has collaborated on studies focused on PNP career choice and education programs.
 
Dr. Martyn’s current research study (1st bullet below) is a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the effect of EHC clinical assessment on sexually active adolescents’ cognitive appraisal of risk, sexual risk behavior and intentions, and quality of communication with nurse practitioners and physicians. The EHC is a time-linked integrated risk history tool that has the potential for improving adolescent risk history recall and report, adolescent risk perception, and patient-provider communication, and ultimately reducing adolescent and young adult risk behaviors via person-centered primary health care.

Current Research Grants and Programs:

  • Principal Investigator: “Testing a Sexual Risk Event History Calendar Intervention with Adolescents” NIH/National Institute of Mental Health (R34) $695,250
  • Co-Investigator: “Mixed-Methods Study of Cigarette Smoking in Urban American Indian Communities” NIH/NCMHD (R01). Under Review.
  • Co-Investigator: “Smokeless Tobacco Use in American Indian Communities” NIH/NCI and NIDCR (R21) Under Review.

Teaching

Dr. Martyn teaches and guest lectures on qualitative research and adolescent health research for  undergraduate and graduate students in many disciplines. Within the U-M School of nursing, she teaches the Nursing Doctoral Qualitative Research and Analysis course, has taught Advanced Nursing Theory courses, and has taught in the Family and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Programs (didactic and clinical).  She has also served as committee chair, co-chair, and member on numerous NRSAs, doctoral student planning and dissertation committees (eleven since 1999), and masters nursing student scholarly projects (eighty-two since 1999) in nursing and education at the University of Michigan and Duquesne University. 

Affiliations / Service

  • Midwest Nursing Research Society, 1999-present (Adolescent Study Section - Chair, 2002-2003; Co-Chair, 200-2002; Abstract Reviewer)
  • National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, 1995-present (Research Committee Member; Education Committee Member; Conference Abstract Reviewer; Small Research Grants Reviewer; Conference Moderator; Representative to the American Nurses Foundation Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent Health (PIPPAH) Planning Committee & Immunization Task Force)
  • Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, 1981‑present

Notable Awards / Honors

  • Dorothy M. Smith Nursing Leadership Award for Excellence in Research, University of Florida College of Nursing, 2006
  • Representative to the American Nurses Foundation Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent Health (PIPPAH) Planning Task Force, National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, 2003-2006

Education

  • PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1998
  • Post-Masters, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1994
  • MSN, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1981
  • BSN, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1978

Publication Highlights

  • Martyn, K.K, Saftner, M.A., Darling-Fisher, C., & Schell, M. (in press). Sexual risk assessment using event history calendars with male and female adolescents. Journal of Pediatric Health Care.
  • Munro, M., Yi, G., Lori, J.R., Martyn, K.K. (in press). Prenatal psychosocial risk assessment using event history calendars with Black women. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing.
  • Small, S.L., Sampselle, C.M., Dempsey, A.F., Martyn, K.K., & Vinovskis, M.A. (in press). Modifiable influences on HPV vaccine uptake at the clinic encounter level: A literature review. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.
  • Martyn, K.K., Darling-Fisher, C., Pardee, M., Ronis, D.L., Felicetti, I.L., & Saftner, M.A. (2011). Improving sexual risk communication with adolescents using event history calendars. Journal of School Nursing, 28(2), 108-115.
  • Martyn, K.K. (contributing member) (2011). National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) Position Statement on Access to Care. Journal of Pediatric Health Care.
  • Freed. G.L., Dunham, K.M., Loveland-Cherry, C.J., Martyn, K.K., Moote, M.J., & the Research Advisory Committee of the American Board of Pediatrics (2011). Private practice rates among pediatric subspecialists. Pediatrics, 128(4):673-676.
  • Freed, G.L., Dunham, K.M., Loveland-Cherry, C., Martyn, K.K., Moote, M.J., & American Board of Pediatrics Research Advisory Committee (2011). Nurse practitioners and physician assistants employed by general and subspecialty pediatricians. Pediatrics, 128(4), 665-672.
  • Saftner, M.A., Martyn, K.K., & Lori, J.R. (2011). Sexually active adolescent women: Assessing family and peer relationships using event history calendars. The Journal of School Nursing, 27(3), 225-236.
  • Wilson, D.S., Talsma, A., & Martyn, K.K. (2011). Mindful staffing: A qualitative description of charge nurses' decision-making behaviors. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 33(6), 805-824.
  • Lori, J.R., Yi, G., & Martyn, K.K., (2011). Provider characteristics desired by African-American women in prenatal care. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 22(1), 71-76.
  • Lori, J.R., Majszak, C., & Martyn, K.K. (2010). Home-based life saving skills in Liberia: Acquisition and retention of skills and knowledge. Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 55(4), 370-377.
  • Freed. G.L., Dunham, K.M., Loveland-Cherry, C.J., Martyn, K.K., & the Research Advisory Committee of the American Board of Pediatrics (2010). Family nurse practitioners: Roles and scope of practice in the care of pediatric patients. Pediatrics, 126, 861-864.
  • Freed. G.L., Dunham, K.M., Lamarand, K., Loveland-Cherry, C.J., Martyn, K.K., & the Research Advisory Committee of the American Board of Pediatrics (2010). Pediatric nurse practitioners: Roles and scope. Pediatrics, 126, 846-850.
  • Freed. G.L., Dunham, K.M., Lamarand, K., Loveland-Cherry, C.J., Martyn, K.K., & the Research Advisory Committee of the American Board of Pediatrics (2010). Neonatal nurse practitioners: Roles and scope. Pediatrics, 126, 856-860.
  • Freed. G.L., Dunham, K.M., Loveland-Cherry, C.J., & Martyn, K.K., & the Research Advisory Committee of the American Board of Pediatrics (2010). Pediatric nurse practitioners in the United States: Current distribution and recent trends in training. Pediatrics, 171, 589-593.

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