Kristin F. Lutz, PhD, RN

Title: Assistant Professor
Phone: (608) 265-2190
E-mail: kflutz@wisc.edu
Support Staff: Kathy Ludwig
Office Address:

K6/354 CSC
600 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53792-2455

Education:

Description of Research Focus:

Sociocultural, sociodemographic, biomedical, and technological transformations have profound implications for the health and health care of pregnant, childbearing, and childrearing families. Despite these transformations, pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing continue to be considered predictable family events, with common expectations about how those experiences should unfold. Violated expectations occur when families’ experiences of childbearing and childrearing contradict expectations for those experiences. The perceptions and consequences of violated expectations     regarding pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing, including child health and development, is the focus of my scholarship. The long-term goal of my program of research is to expand the scientific knowledge base necessary to develop appropriate, theory-based nursing interventions for use with families whose expectations regarding pregnancy and parenting are violated.
    

I am currently conducting two pilot investigations: The first study is a longitudinal investigation with multiple birth families using qualitative and quantitative approaches. Families who experience medical complications during pregnancy and/or deliver preterm are recruited during pregnancy or after a preterm delivery and are followed through first post birth year. In the second study, we are interviewing parents of young children who are graduates of Neonatal or Pediatric Intensive Care Units with special health care needs and who have nutrition and feeding problems, and the health professionals who care for the children and their families, to determine the consequences and service needs of these children and their families. Data from the interviews will be used to develop a survey assessing the specific concerns, services needs, and consequences for young children and their families.

Teaching/Course Responsibilities:
(excluding independent study courses)

Honors and Awards/Professional Service:

Representative Publications:

Lutz, K.F. (2005). Abuse experiences, perceptions, and associated decisions during the childbearing cycle. The Western Journal of Nursing Research, 27, 802-824.Response by Lutz in The Western Journal of Nursing Research 27, 828-830.

Lutz, K.F. (2005). Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of Family-Centered Care (Guest Editorial). JOGNN: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing, 34, 149.

Lutz, K.F. (2005). Abused, pregnant women’s interactions with health care providers during the childbearing year. JOGNN: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing, 34, 151-162.

Lutz, K.F. (2004). Living two lives: A grounded theory of abuse during pregnancy. Communicating Nursing Research, 37, 101, 103-109.

Lutz, K.F., Shelton, K.C., Robrecht, L.C., Hatton, D.C., & Beckett, A.K. (2000). Use of certificates of confidentiality in nursing research. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 32(2), 185-188.

Jones, K.D. & Lutz, K.F. (1999). Selecting doctoral programs in nursing: Resources for students and faculty. Journal of Professional Nursing, 15(4), 245-252.

Lutz, K.F. (1999). Maintaining client safety and scientific integrity in research with battered women. Image: Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 31(1), 89-93.

Lutz, K.F., Jones, K.D., & Kendall, J. (1997). Expanding the praxis debate: Contributions to clinical inquiry. Advances in Nursing Science, 20(2), 23-31.