Allison P Squires

Faculty

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Allison P Squires

PhD RN FAAN

Professor

1 212 992 7074

433 First Ave
New York, NY 10010
United States

Accepting PhD students

Allison Squires, Ph.D., FAAN, RN, is a Professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She is a global health services researcher with two focal areas of research: Creating a sustainable nursing workforce and improving immigrant health outcomes. Prof. Squires is also the Founder and Director of the Global Consortium of Nursing & Midwifery Studies (GCNMS). In addition to holding multiple national and international leadership positions in nursing organizations during her career, she has consulted with the Migration Policy Institute, the International Council of Nurses, and the World Bank on nursing and health workforce issues and produced several major policy analyses with their teams and continues to serve as an expert resource on nursing workforce issues globally.

She has several projects currently funded by domestic and international funders. Domestically, she is studying the impact of language barriers on hospital nursing practice and evaluating the impact of the Magnet journey on small hospitals.  Her current funded international studies focus on nursing workforce capacity building in Greece, Ghana, and Guyana. Her signature project, the GCNMS, is now an 87-country research consortium collaborating on research capacity-building projects in nursing and midwifery globally. The consortium's current research study is examining the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nursing and midwifery workforces globally.

Prior to entering academia full-time, Squires worked as a staff nurse in solid organ transplant and as a staff educator for 11 years in the U.S. healthcare system in rural and urban locations. Her practice has since shifted largely to community-based nursing roles as a volunteer.

She is currently accepting Ph.D. students and/or post-doctoral fellows/associates with interests in the following areas: Global health, migration & immigrant health, and health services and workforce research.

Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Center for Health Outcomes & Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania
PhD, Yale University School of Nursing Doctor of Philosophy
MSN in Nursing Education, Duquesne University School of Nursing
BSN in Nursing with a Minor in Latin American Studies, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Global Health
Health Services Research
Immigrant Health
Midwifery Workforce
Nursing workforce

Academy Health
American Nurses Association
National Council for Interpreting in Health Care
Sigma International

Distinguished Alumna, Yale School of Nursing Alumni Association (2025)
Outstanding Mentor Award, Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues of Academy Health (2023)
Writing Award for Distinguished Manuscript on Geriatric/Gerontological Nursing (Ma et al. 2021), Gerontological Society of America Nursing Care of Older Adults Interest Group (2021)
Distinguished Nurse Scholar in Residence, National Academy of Medicine (2020)
Distinguished Nurse Scholar in Residence, National Academy of Medicine (2019)
Fellow Ambassador to the Media, New York Academy of Medicine (2018)
Fellow Ambassador to the Media, New York Academy of Medicine (2017)
Fellow, American Academy of Nursing (2015)
Distinguished Alumna, Duquesne University School of Nursing (2015)
Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine (2014)
Fellow, Yale World Fellows Program, Yale University (2003)
Inducted into Sigma Theta Tau International (1998)

Integrating Health Care Interpreters Into Simulation Education

Latimer, B., Robertiello, G., & Squires, A. P. (2019). (Vols. 32, pp. 20-26). 10.1016/j.ecns.2019.04.001
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Patients with limited English proficiency skills are accessing health care services more frequently around the world. Language barriers increase patient vulnerability for adverse events, and health care interpreters may mitigate this risk. Nursing education regarding the effective and appropriate use of health care interpreters has been limited. Interpreters are natural partners for nurses as a strategy to bridge language barriers with patients and could be integrated more regularly into nursing education using clinical simulation strategies. This article offers an overview of the different types of interpreters in health care, proposes recommendations for integrating them into simulation education, and provides a case example to illustrate implementation.

The Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues: Advancing Health Services Research, Policy, Regulation, and Practice

Squires, A. P., Germack, H., Muench, U., Stolldorf, D., Witkoski-Stimpfel, A., Yakusheva, O., Brom, H., Harrison, J., Patel, E., Riman, K., & Martsolf, G. (2019). (Vols. 10, Issues 2, pp. 55-59). 10.1016/S2155-8256(19)30116-4
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No One Left Behind: Public health nursing in a time of inclusion, equity, and sustainability

Squires, A. P., Rosa, W. E., & Squires, A. P. (2019). (Vols. 36, Issue 1, pp. 1-2).
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Nursing’s public image in the Republic of Georgia : A qualitative, exploratory study

Squires, A. P., Ojemeni, M. T., Olson, E., & Uchanieshvili, M. (2019). (Vols. 26, Issues 4). 10.1111/nin.12295
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The public image of nursing is important because it can facilitate or create barriers to achieving an adequate supply of nursing human resources. This study sought to gain a better understanding of nursing’s professional image within the Republic of Georgia. The Nursing Human Resources Systems model was used to guide the study’s exploratory, qualitative approach. Data collection occurred over a 2-week period in the Republic of Georgia, and thirty-three participants formed the final study sample. Participants included healthcare professionals, key informants from nonprofit and research institutions, and patients. Data analysis occurred using directed content analysis techniques, and three themes emerged: (a) gender dimension; (b) the nursing service recipient experience; and (c) historical legacies. Themes revealed the complexities of nursing’s image in the country. Findings from this study serve as baseline data for understanding nursing’s image in the Republic of Georgia which could assist with improving pre-entry nursing production issues.

Physician resilience: a grounded theory study of obstetrics and gynaecology residents

Squires, A. P., Winkel, A. F., Robinson, A., Jones, A.-A. A., & Squires, A. P. (2019). (Vols. 53, Issues 2, pp. 184-194).
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Enhancing physician resilience has the promise of addressing the problem of burnout, which threatens both doctors and patients and increases in residents with each year of training. Programmes aimed at enhancing physician resilience are heterogeneous and use varied targets to measure efficacy, because there is a lack of clarity regarding this concept. A more robust understanding of how resilience is manifested could enhance efforts to create and measure it in physicians in training.

Policy update - Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act: Strengthening language access rights for patients with limited English proficiency

Squires, A. P., & Youdelman, M. (2019). (Vols. 10, Issue 1, pp. 65-67).
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Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act: Strengthening Language Access Rights for Patients With Limited English Proficiency

Squires, A. P., & Youdelman, M. (2019). (Vols. 10, Issue 1, pp. 65-67). 10.1016/S2155-8256(19)30085-7
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Strategies for overcoming language barriers in research

Squires, A. P., Sadarangani, T., & Jones, S. (2019). (Vols. 76, Issues 2, pp. 706-714). 10.1111/jan.14007
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Aim: This paper seeks to describe best practices for conducting cross-language research with individuals who have a language barrier. Design: Discussion paper. Data Sources: Research methods papers addressing cross-language research issues published between 2000–2017. Implications for Nursing: Rigorous cross-language research involves the appropriate use of interpreters during the research process, systematic planning for how to address the language barrier between participant and researcher and the use of reliably and validly translated survey instruments (when applicable). Biases rooted in those who enter data into “big data” systems may influence data quality and analytic approaches in large observational studies focused on linking patient language preference to health outcomes. Conclusion: Cross-language research methods can help ensure that those individuals with language barriers have their voices contributing to the evidence informing healthcare practice and policies that shape health services implementation and financing. Understanding the inherent conscious and unconscious biases of those conducting research with this population and how this may emerge in research studies is also an important part of producing rigorous, reliable, and valid cross-language research. Impact: This study synthesized methodological recommendations for cross-language research studies with the goal to improve the quality of future research and expand the evidence-base for clinical practice. Clear methodological recommendations were generated that can improve research rigor and quality of cross-language qualitative and quantitative studies. The recommendations generated here have the potential to have an impact on the health and well-being of migrants around the world.

Sustainable development & the year of the nurse & midwife – 2020

Squires, A. P., Chavez, F. S., Hilfinger Messias, D. A., Narsavage, G. L., Oerther, D. B., Premji, S. S., Rosa, W. E., Ambani, Z., Castañeda-Hidalgo, H., Lee, H., Pallangyo, E. S., & Thumm, E. B. (2019). (Vols. 94, pp. A3-A4). 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2019.03.008
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Transition-to-US-Practice Experiences of Internationally Educated Nurses in the United States in the 21st Century

Ghazal, L., Ma, C., Djukic, M., & Squires, A. P. (2019). (Vols. 68, Issues 2, pp. E103-E104).
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