Dr. Brush focuses her research on nurse workforce issues and on promoting health and reducing health inequality among vulnerable and community-based populations. Her nurse workforce research has spanned a gamut of issues, including workforce diversity, nurse shortage, and nurse migration, as well as direct care provision to vulnerable populations. She also examines important issues in nurse workforce development and capacity building. Her work on nurse migration has explored the United States’ long practice of recruiting internationally educated nurses to fill nurse shortfall in hospitals and nursing homes, which has informed national and international policies on the ethical recruitment of Internationally educated nurses and approaches to measure safety and quality care practices. An advanced practice nurse (APN) and proponent of interprofessional primary care practice, she created one of the nation’s first clinical practice models utilizing APNs and ministers to care for homeless men. She has also been part of a longstanding team designing APN care delivery models and measuring their outcomes in nursing home settings. Her research with homeless families in Detroit uses a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to engage academic and community partners in designing and implementing best practice models to inform health policy decisions for this emerging and underserved cohort.
- Ph.D., Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
- M.S.N., Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
- B.S.N., Nursing, Southeastern Massachusetts University