Mattia Gilmartin

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Mattia Jean Gilmartin

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Mattia (Tia) Gilmartin is the executive director of NICHE and a senior research scientist at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She also serves as the director of the Center for Continuing Nursing Education, where she oversees the College’s portfolio of continuing education programs for practicing nurses. She is a leader dedicated to improving healthcare services. She brings 20 years of firsthand experience with organizational and management forces that drive performance improvement. Her background as a clinician, researcher, and teacher makes her particularly skilled in analyzing complex problems and translating theory into practice. She favors entrepreneurial approaches and thrives in complex environments that require creative and flexible solutions. 

Gilmartin emerged as a thought leader in the areas of organizational change and health system effectiveness. She has a broad background that spans both nursing and management, with expertise in the areas of strategic management, economics, quality improvement, chronic disease management, and organizational design and change. She has published widely for both academic and practitioner audiences. Her ability to bridge the worlds of research and practice has enabled her to design and teach leadership and organizational development programs for nursing and general management audiences.

Prior to joining NYU Meyers in 2011, Gilmartin managed an interdisciplinary research group at INSEAD, a leading international business school in France. She also implemented a three-semester specialty track for the master’s degree program in clinical nurse leadership at the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing.

Among her many honors, Gilmartin received the Raven Award in 2000 for her outstanding achievement and service to the University of Virginia. She is the chair-elect for the Academy of Management, Health Care Management Division, and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and the National Academies of Practice.

Gilmartin holds a PhD degree from the University of Virginia, a Master's of Business in administration from the University of San Francisco, and a bachelor's and master's degree in nursing. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Cambridge Judge Business School in organizational improvement and comparative health systems.

Post-Doctoral Fellowship - Cambridge Judge Business School
PhD - University of Virginia
MS, Nursing & MBA - University of San Francisco
BS - University of San Francisco

Nursing workforce
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Academy of Management
American Nurses' Association
Clinical Nurse Leaders Association
Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society

Raven Award, University of Virginia (2000)
Fellow and Distinguished Practitioner, National Academies of Practice
Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine

Variations in clinical nurse leaders' confidence with performing the core role functions

Gilmartin, M. J. (2014). Journal of Professional Nursing, 30(4), 307-316. 10.1016/j.profnurs.2013.11.002
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Clinical nurse leader (CNL) practice, by definition, requires individuals to make career transitions. CNLs must adjust to their new work role and responsibilities and doing so also entails individual adjustment. Prior work has not examined the role of individual-level factors in effective CNL role transition. This study contributes to CNL implementation efforts by developing understanding of personal and contextual factors that explain variation in individuals' levels of self-confidence with performing the key functions of the CNL role. Data were gathered using a cross-sectional survey from a national sample of registered nurses (RNs) certified as CNLs. Respondents' perceptions of their confidence in performing CNL role competencies were measured with the Clinical Nurse Leader Self-Efficacy Scale (CNLSES; Gilmartin MJ, Nokes, K. (in press). The Clinical Nurse Leader Self Efficacy Scale: Results of a pilot study. Nursing Economic$). The CNLSES is a 35-item state-specific self-efficacy scale with established measurement properties that assesses nurses' perceptions of their ability to function effectively as a CNL. Demographic data were also collected. Data were analyzed using a general linear regression model. One hundred forty-seven certified CNLs participated in the survey. Results indicate that respondents vary in their confidence with performing the nine role competencies associated with CNL practice. Results from regression analyses also show that respondents' confidence in their abilities to carry out the core functions associated with the CNL role varied significantly across geographic region, organizational type, and by CNL graduate program model. The results of this study show important differences in CNLs' levels of self-confidence with the core competencies of their role. As a result, it may be important to develop targeted career transition interventions to gain the full benefit of CNL practice.

Principles and practices of social entrepreneurship for nursing

Gilmartin, M. J. (2013). Journal of Nursing Education, 52(11), 641-644. 10.3928/01484834-20131014-03
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Although social justice and action for change are among the nursing profession's core values, curricular content on social entrepreneurship for nurses is not as well developed as it is in the educational programs for students in business, engineering, or public policy. This article describes an undergraduate honors elective course in social entrepreneurship offered at New York University College of Nursing. The course uses a seminar format and incorporates content from the humanities, business, and service-learning, with the goal of promoting participants' understanding of the sources of inequality in the United States and providing the requisite skills to promote effective nursing action for social change.

Thirty years of nursing turnover research: Looking back to move forward

Gilmartin, M. J. (2013). Medical Care Research and Review, 70(1), 3-28. 10.1177/1077558712449056
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Despite the substantial amount of useful prior work on turnover among nurses, our understanding of the causal mechanisms explaining why nurses voluntarily leave their jobs is limited. The purpose of this article is to promote the development of stronger conceptual models of the causes of voluntary turnover among nurses. The author compares the nursing-specific literature to research on voluntary turnover from the general management field over the past 30 years and examines the evolution of key theories used in the nursing literature. Results of this review comparing nursing research with that in the broader field suggest that, over time, nursing research has not kept pace with conceptualizations from general management explaining why people either remain at or quit their jobs. The author argues that conceptual models of turnover among nurses can benefit significantly from drawing more effectively on particular models and concepts available in general management studies of turnover.

Time for realistic job previews in nursing as a recruitment and retention tool

Gilmartin, M. J., Aponte, P. C., & Nokes, K. (2013). Journal for Nurses in Professional Development, 29(5), 220-227. 10.1097/01.NND.0000433146.51557.b7

Shifting the clinical teaching paradigm in undergraduate nursing education to address the nursing faculty shortage

Richardson, H., Gilmartin, M. J., & Fulmer, T. (2012). Journal of Nursing Education, 51(4), 226-231. 10.3928/01484834-20120210-04
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To address the faculty shortage problem, schools of nursing are reexamining how they provide clinical education to undergraduate students to find ways to use faculty resources more efficiently and to maintain student enrollment. We describe a unique clinical teaching model implemented at the New York University College of Nursing. The new model currently being evaluated shifts from the traditional clinical education model, in which all clinical education is in a hospital or agency setting, to a model that substitutes highfidelity human patient simulation for up to half of the clinical education experience. This article describes the clinical teaching model and its effects on nurse faculty capacity.

Leadership competencies for implementing planned organizational change

Battilana, J., Gilmartin, M., Sengul, M., Pache, A. C., & Alexander, J. A. (2010). Leadership Quarterly, 21(3), 422-438. 10.1016/j.leaqua.2010.03.007
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This paper bridges the leadership and organizational change literatures by exploring the relationship between managers' leadership competencies (namely, their effectiveness at person-oriented and task-oriented behaviors) and the likelihood that they will emphasize the different activities involved in planned organizational change implementation (namely, communicating the need for change, mobilizing others to support the change, and evaluating the change implementation). We examine this relationship using data from 89 clinical managers at the United Kingdom National Health Service who implemented change projects between 2003 and 2004. Our results lend overall support to the proposed theory. This finding suggests that treating planned organizational change as a generic phenomenon might mask important idiosyncrasies associated both with the different activities involved in the change implementation process and with the unique functions that leadership competencies might play in the execution of these activities.

Business ethics and health care: A stakeholder perspective

Gilmartin, M. J., & Freeman, R. E. (2002). Health Care Management Review, 27(2), 52-65. 10.1097/00004010-200204000-00006
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This article examines the recent controversy in health care delivery about whether it should be conceptualized as a business. The current debate implicitly appeals to a common understanding of business and business practices that is no longer very useful. This common notion, which the authors call "cowboy capitalism," conceptualizes business as a competitive jungle resting on self-interest and an urge for competition in order to survive. The authors suggest that stakeholder capitalism offers a more useful framework for the dialogue about health care reform.

Humanism in health care service: The role of stakeholder management

Gilmartin, M. J. (2001). Nursing Administration Quarterly, 25(3), 24-36. 10.1097/00006216-200104000-00006

Creativity the fuel of innovation

Gilmartin, M. J. (1999). Nursing Administration Quarterly, 23(2), 1-8. 10.1080/19996216-199923020-00004
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Market-leveled changes occurring in the health care industry require new and creative models of organization, management, and service del very. One of today’s primary management challenges is the development of organizational cultures that value innovation, change, and creativity. The adoption of an ethic of innovativeness allows the organization to stretch the limits of individual and collective knowledge, skill, and ability to meet complex consumer needs. Creativity within organizations is influenced by management practices in conjunction with creativity-relevant work group skills. A common wisdom exists that professional nurses are creative in finding solutions for complex patient care needs. The expansion of this creativity within organizational systems will allow for the evolution of professional nursing practice, improvement in care delivery, and organizational performance.

The multidimensional health behavior inventory

Kulbok, P. A., Carter, K. F., Baldwin, J. H., Gilmartin, M. J., & Kirkwood, B. (1999). Journal of Nursing Measurement, 7(2), 177-195. 10.1891/1061-3749.7.2.177
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Gaps in knowledge about what constitutes healthy and risky behaviors for young people hinder successful health promotion intervention strategies With the development of appropriate instruments, behaviors can be measured and interventions can be implemented to improve health outcomes. The structure of a new health behavior instrument, the Multidimensional Health Behavior Inventory (MHBI), was explored with data from 1,077 college students, ages 18 to 24 years. Factor analysis of 116 health behavior questions yielded 7 factor-based scales with 57 items: diet (13 items), substance use (10 items), safety (9 items), checkup (9 items), social (6 items), stress (6 items), and exercise (4 items). Evaluation of the 7 behavior scales of the MHBI using subgroups defined by age, gender, and race will contribute to an understanding of health behaviors of older adolescents and young adults and will provide directions for research and clinical interventions.