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Linda Strodtman, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor, Clinical Nurse Specialist

University of Michigan School of Nursing
400 North Ingalls Building
Room 2178
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0482
Telephone: (734) 647-0189
Fax: (734) 936-5525
Pager (734) 936-6266, #8075
strodtma@umich.edu

Scholarly interests:

Palliative and End of Life Care: Since late 2002 I have been working with Maureen M. Goode Giacomazza, MA, RN, Clinical Nurse Specialist with the Pediatric Palliative Care Consultation Service and nurse ethicist on a Palliative Care Nurse Education Project at University of Michigan Health System in addressing palliative and end of life care issues. We have a funded Center on Research in Learning and Teaching Grant for producing two videotapes about providing a "Good Death" from an interdisciplinary care team perspective. We are engaged in research directed toward improving quality of end of life care. [U-M press release] We are conducting a research study "Family Satisfaction with End of Life Care" in which families of patients who have died in intensive care units settings are surveyed about their experience. Currently in the U.S. satisfaction data about quality of care during hospitalization is almost always ascertained only from patients who are discharged alive and families who have lost their loved one are not included.

Nursing History: Focus of research is on 19th & 20th Century American Nursing History and the professional socialization of nurses, nursing students and the role prescription of women in society. My doctoral dissertation work concerned the historical analysis of the characteristics, ethos and professional socialization of diploma nursing students at Harper and Grace Hospital Schools of Nursing in Detroit , MI from 1941 to 1980. Another project involved the analysis of letters written by a Michigan mother to her daughter and a sister to her sister in the 1920's. This project of "Women's Voices--Women's Lives" concerns the role of women in the family including how they cared for the health care needs of the family. I am co-founder, former President and current archivist for The Nursing History Society of The University of Michigan. The Society is engaged in an oral history project of nurse leaders. The collection of the society is concerned with preserving the history of nursing at The University of Michigan with a primary focus on artifacts (uniforms, patient care and instructional equipment, and photographs). My personal artifact collection includes invalid feeding spoons and cups (also known as pap boats) and other nursing care artifacts such as sheet music and advertisements featuring nurses. I am a member of the Ann Arbor Doll Collectors and my doll collection is focused on nurse dolls (from early 1900s to present). [University Record article ]

Education
PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1994
MS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1970
BS, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 1967
Diploma, Hurley Hospital School of Nursing, Flint, Michigan, 1965

Current Active Research
Family Satisfaction with End of Life Care
History of Nursing in the State of Michigan

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