Professor Ruth Lindquist, PhD RN APRN-BC FAAN, Center for Spirituality and Healing, Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota

Position: Professor, School of Nursing
Organization: University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Office Address:
5-140 WDH, Del Code 1331
308 Harvard Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Home Address:
10355 Zinran Cir S
Bloomington, MN 55438

Office Phone: 612-624-5646
Home Phone: 952-941-4360
Email Address: lindq002@umn.edu

Educational Background
BSN - Nursing, MS, PhD (in Pharmacy)

Brief Biography
Dr. Lindquist is a Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing and a faculty member at the Center for Spirituality and Healing in the Academic Health Center. Her research as a Densford Scholar in the Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership focuses on women's heart health, critical care nursesż attitudes toward and use of complementary/alternative therapies and cardiovascular patient response to the use of therapies in the context of hospitalization with acute cardiac conditions. Her research teamżs current NIH-funded study focuses on the feasibility of the use of acupuncture to prevent or terminate new onset atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

Teaching Areas
Medical-Surgical Nursing
Research
Nursing Interventions
Stress and coping

Research Interests
Use of complementary therapies to reduce stress and improve outcomes in critically ill patients.

Selected Publications
Tracy MF, & Lindquist R. (2007). Systems Thinking. In M. McKinley (Ed.), Acute and Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialists: Synergy for Best Practices (pp. 127-141). Philadelphia, PA: Saunders/Elsevier.

Halm MA, Treat-Jacobson D, Lindquist R, & Savik K. (2007). Caregiver burden and outcomes of caregiving of spouses of patients who undergo coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Heart & Lung: The Journal of Critical Care, 36(3), 170-187.

Lindquist R, & Sendelbach SE. (2007). Maximizing safety of hospitalized elders. Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 19(3), 277-84.

Lindquist R, Wyman JF, Talley KM, Findorff MJ, & Gross CR. (2007). Design of control-group conditions in clinical trials of behavioral interventions. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 39(3), 214-21.

Lindquist, R., Sendelbach, S., Windenburg, D., VanVormer, A., Treat-Jacobson, D., & Chose, D. (submitted). The challenges of implementing a feasibility study of an acupuncture protocol in contexts of acute and critical care. AACN: Advanced Critical Care.

Treat-Jacobson D, & Lindquist R. (2007). Exercise, quality of life, and symptoms in men and women five to six years after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Heart & Lung: The Journal of Critical Care, 36(6), 387-97.

VanWormer A, Lindquist, R., Sendelbach S. (in press) . The effects of acupuncture on cardiac arrhythmias: A review of the literature. Heart & Lung.

Sandau, K., Lindquist, R., Treat-Jacobson, D. & Savik, K. (in press). Health-related quality of life and subjective neurocognitive function at 3 months post coronary artery bypass graft. Heart & Lung.

Hadidi, N., Treat Jacobson, D., & Lindquist, R. (submitted). Post stroke depression and functional outcomes: A critical review of the literature. Heart & Lung.

Pangarakis, S., Harrington, K., Lindquist, R., Finkelstein, S., & Peden-McAlpine, C. (in press). Focus groups to develop targeted messages in a telehealth program of home-monitoring. Heart & Lung.

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