Allison P Squires

Faculty

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Allison P Squires

PhD RN FAAN

Professor

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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)

International recruitment : Many faces, one goal—part 1

Squires, A. P. (2011). (Vols. 39, Issues 9, pp. 16-21). 10.1097/01.NUMA.0000335253.23789.98
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Make ethically informed choices about international nurse recruitment that not only balance your staffing needs, but also minimize the potential negative aspects of nurse migration.

Måleinstrumentet The Nursing Work Index-Revised - oversettelse og utprøvelse av en norsk versjon [The instrument Nurses Work Index-Revised - translation and assessment of the Norwegian version]

Stromseng Sjetne, I., Tvedt, C., & Squires, A. P. (2011). (Vols. 6, pp. 358-365).
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and Mexican nursing

Squires, A. P. (2011). (Vols. 26, Issues 2, pp. 124-132). 10.1093/heapol/czq024
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In the context of nurse migration, experts view trade agreements as either vehicles for facilitating migration or as contributing to brain-drain phenomena. Using a case study design, this study explored the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the development of Mexican nursing. Drawing results from a general thematic analysis of 48 interviews with Mexican nurses and 410 primary and secondary sources, findings show that NAFTA changed the relationship between the State and Mexican nursing. The changed relationship improved the infrastructure capable of producing and monitoring nursing human resources in Mexico. It did not lead to the mass migration of Mexican nurses to the United States and Canada. At the same time, the economic instability provoked by the peso crisis of 1995 slowed the implementation of planned advances. Subsequent neoliberal reforms decreased nurses' security as workers by minimizing access to full-time positions with benefits, and decreased wages. This article discusses the linkages of these events and the effects on Mexican nurses and the development of the profession. The findings have implications for nursing human resources policy-making and trade in services. Published by Oxford University Press in association with The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

A pilot study of a systematic method for translating patient satisfaction questionnaires

Liu, K., Squires, A. P., & You, L. M. (2011). (Vols. 67, Issues 5, pp. 1012-1021). 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05569.x
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Aims. This paper is a report of a descriptive comparative pilot study of use of a method that simultaneously tests the content validity and quality of translation of English-to-Chinese translations of two patient satisfaction questionnaires: the La Monica-Oberst Patient Satisfaction Scale and Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems. Background. Patient satisfaction is an important indicator of the quality of healthcare services. In China, however, few good translations of patient satisfaction instruments sensitive to nursing services exist. Methods. The descriptive pilot study took place in 2009 and used content validity indexing techniques to evaluate the content, context and criterion relevance of a survey question. The expert raters were 10 nursing faculty and 10 patients who evaluated the two patient satisfaction questionnaires. The experts evaluated the relevance of each item on a scale of 1-4 and the research team compared their responses to choose the most appropriate. Only the nurse faculty experts, who were bilingual, evaluated the quality of the translation using a binary rating. Results. The 'Nurse Rater' relevance scores of the LaMonica-Oberst Patient Satisfaction Scale and the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems were 0·96 and 0·95 respectively, whereas the patient's overall relevance scores were 0·89 and 0·95. A Mann-Whitney U-test demonstrated that results between the two groups were statistically significantly different (P=0·0135). Conclusions. Using content validity indexing simultaneously with translation processes was valuable for selecting and evaluating survey instruments in different contexts.

Book review : C. Ameringers iHealth Care Revolution: From Medical Monopoly to Market Competition/i

Squires, A. P. (2010). (Vols. 17, Issues 3, p. 412).
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Book review : V. Navarro (ed.), iNeoliberalism, Globalization, and Inequalities: Consequences for Health and Quality of Life/i

Squires, A. P. (2010). (Vols. 17, Issue 1, p. 143).
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Health system reconstruction : Perspectives of Iraqi physicians

Squires, A. P., Squires, A., Sindi, A., & Fennie, K. (2010). (Vols. 5, Issues 6, pp. 561-577). 10.1080/17441690903473246
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In conflict or post-conflict situations, health system reconstruction becomes a critical component of ensuring stability. The purpose of this study was to determine the priorities for health system reconstruction among Iraqi physicians residing in the northern region of the country. A convenience sample of practicing male and female physicians residing in the Kurdish region completed a 13-item survey about health system reconstruction. A total of 1001 practitioners completed the survey with gender breakdown of 29% female and 71% male, all working in different specialty areas. Significant differences between the providers based on gender (p=0.001), specialty (p=0.001) and geographic location (p=0.004) were found to affect the responses of the participants. This study demonstrates that input from healthcare professionals is important for health system reconstruction, but that gender, geography and medical specialty make the process complex.

The institutional tensions between the development of the state and nursing profession in Mexico

Squires, A. P. (2010). In Historical Sociology of Latin American Medical Professions II: Para-Medical Practitioners and the State presented at the 2010 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association "Crisis, Response, & Recovery," Toronto, Canada.
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The translation of the Maslach burnout inventory for healthcare professionals for the RN4CAST study

Squires, A. P. (2010). Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania.
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Book review : iEl Genero y la Socializacion Profesional de Enfermeria/i. [iGender and the Professional Socialization of Nurses/i (Mexico)]

Squires, A. P. (2009). (Vols. 17, pp. 242-243).
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