Eileen T. O'Grady PhD, RN, NP - Certified Nurse Practitioner and Wellness Coach
NEW!  Peer-Reviewed Journal Article on Group Medical Visits:
Burke, R. and O'Grady. E.T. Group Visits Hold Great Potential For Improving Diabetes Care and Outcomes, But Best Practices Must Be Developed.  Health Affairs. 31:1. January 2012.   

Featured Interview:  
Interviewed by Dr. Chuckie Hanson, "Interview with Nurse Practitioner Wellness Coaches"  Cover Story Nurse Practitioner World News. Vol 16: May/June 2011

PUBLISHED COLUMNS(Recent)

O'Grady, E.T. All Imaginable Futures are not Equally Possible. Nurse Practitioner World News. Vol 17,  No. 1/2: January/February 2012

O'Grady, E.T. The Stubborness of Facts. Nurse Practitioner World News. Vol 19, No. 9/10: September/October  2011.

O'Grady, E.T. To the Class of 2011 APRN Graduates and the Hopeful Future. Nurse Practitioner World News. Vol 19, No. 7/8: July /August  2011.

O'Grady, E.T. APRNs Boldly Form Medical Homes. Nurse Practitioner World News. Vol 18, No. 5/6:  April/May 2011.

O'Grady, E.T.Political Polarization Creates Tribal Politics.  Nurse Practitioner World News. Vol 17, No. 3/4: March 2011.
 
O'Grady, E.T. Weighing the Pig Won't Fatten it.  Nurse Practitioner World News. Vol 16, No. 1/2: January 2011.
 
O'Grady, E.T.Rolling Out Reform Despite Political and Legal Challenges: The Tug of War for Public Opinion.  Nurse Practitioner World News. Vol 15, No. 11/12: November/December 2010.  
 
O'Grady, E.T.The Voices Grow Louder.Nurse Practitioner World News. Vol 15, No. 9/10: September/October 2010.  
 
O'Grady, E.T. The Renaissance of Primary Care. Nurse Practitioner World News. Vol 15, No. 7/8: July/August 2010.  
 
O'Grady, E.T.Optimism as a Political Act. Nurse Practitioner World News. Vol 15, No. No. 5/6: May/June 2010. 
 
O'Grady, E.T. On Not Being Heard. Nurse Practitioner World News. Vol 15, No. No. 3/4: March/April 2010. 
 
O'Grady, E.T. Lessons From Wild Geese. Nurse Practitioner World News. Vol 15, No. 1/2: January/February 2010.
 
O'Grady, E.T. Stay Nonpartisan in a Partisan World. Nurse Practitioner World News. Vol 14, No. 11/12:  November/December 2009
 
O'Grady, E.T. and Ford, L. The Five Nurse Practitioner Political Issues and
 the One Solution. Nurse Practitioner World News. Vol 14, No. 9: September 2009.
 
O'Grady, E.T. Cost Effectiveness Vs. Comparable Worth: Anatomy of a Paradox. Nurse Practitioner World News. Vol 14, No. 5/6: May/June 2009.
NPWN June 2009.pdf (PDF — 2 MB)
 O'Grady, E.T. Factions Weaken APRNs in Policy Circles. Nurse Practitioner  World News. Vol 14, No. 3/4:  March/April 2009.
March5.09.pdf (PDF — 3 MB)
O’Grady, E.T.Acknowledge the Paradoxes and Advance the Prefession.'Health Policy and Politics'guest columnist, Nursing Economics, Vol 27(5). October 2009.
O'Grady, E.T.Election 2008: Civic Engagement + Discount Store + Humility.American Journal for Nurse Practitioners Vol 12 No.9: September 2008.
 
 
PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS (Recent)
 
Burke, R. and O'Grady. E.T. Group Visits Hold Great Potential
Must Be Developed.  Health Affairs. 31:1. January 2012.   

O'Grady, E.T. and Brassard, A.Health Care Reform: Opportunities for APRNs and Urgency for Modernizing Nurse Practice Acts.  Journal of Nursing Regulation. (2) April 2011. Pp 1-6. 
 
O’Grady, E.T., Hanson, C., Rudner, N, & Hodnicki, D. “Unleashing the Nation’s Nurse Practitioners"  Journal of Rural Health. 00:1-3. December 2010.
 
Rudner, N., O’Grady, E.T. Hodnicki, D., & Hanson, C . “Are Regulations MoreConsumer-Friendly When Boards of Nursing are the Sole Regulators of Nurse Practitioners?”Journal of Professional Nursing. 26(1): 29-34. March 2010.  
 
Rudner, N., O’Grady, E.T. Hodnicki, D., & Hanson, C. “Ranking State Regulation: Practice Environment and Consumer Health Care Choice".  The American Journal for Nurse Practitioners. April 2007. 11(4). Pp 8-23.
 
BOOK CHAPTERS(Recent)
 
O’Grady, E.T. (2012) Coaching Nurses and Health Policy in Nursing Leadership: A Concise Encyclopedia, Feldman, H. (ed). Springer Publishing. 
 
O’Grady, E.T., and Ford, L. (2011). The Politics of Advanced Practice Registered Nursing.   In Mason, Leavitt & Chaffee (eds).  Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care. (6 ed). St. Louis:Elsevier-Saunders.  
 
O’Grady, E.T. (2011). Advanced Practice Nursing and Health Policy. In Stanley, J. (ed.) Advanced Practice Nursing: Emphasizing Common Roles.  (3 ed). Philadelphia:  F.A. Davis.  
 
O’Grady, E.T. (2008). Advanced Practice Registered Nurses:  The Impact on Patient Safety and Quality (Chapter 43).  In Hughes, RG (ed). Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-based Handbook for Nurses.  (Prepared with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.) AHRQ Publication no. 08-0043.  Rockville, MD. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April, 2008. Book received three ‘Book of the Year Awards’ (2008) from the American Journal of Nursing.
 
O’Grady E.T. and Johnson, J. (2008). Health Policy Issues in Changing Environments (chapter 22).  In Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach. (4 ed). Hamric, Spross & Hanson (eds). St. Louis: Elsevier-Saunders.
 
Anderson, A. & O’Grady E.T.  (2008). The Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (Chapter 13). In  Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach. (4 ed). Hamric, Spross & Hanson (eds). St. Louis: Elsevier-Saunders.