Sally S Cohen

Faculty

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Sally Cohen

FAAN PhD RN

Clinical Professor

1 212 992 5929

433 First Ave
New York, NY 10010
United States

Accepting PhD students

Sally S. Cohen, FAAN, Ph.D., RN, is a clinical professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. As a nationally recognized leader in advancing health policy and nursing at the national and state levels, she helps integrate health policy into nursing education, practice, and research. Her interdisciplinary scholarship encompasses public health, children’s rights, bullying prevention, and the politics of policymaking for children’s issues. As the editor-in-chief of Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice from 2014 to 2019, Cohen helped to create a vibrant forum for nurses and others globally to share ideas and analyses of policies and political activities that affect nursing practice in all venues of care.

Before joining NYU as faculty, Cohen was the 2014–2015 NAM/AAN/ANA/ANF Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute of Medicine (now the Academy of Medicine). Before that, she directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nursing and Health Policy Collaborative at the University of New Mexico. The collaborative, which wrapped up its work in 2017, prepared nursing Ph.D. students for leadership in health policy. As director of policy and research at the National League of Nursing, Cohen helped advocate for legislation that in 1985 established the National Institute of Nursing Research. She also developed and directed the Nursing Management, Policy, and Leadership specialty at the Yale. 

Among her many honors, Cohen received the 2019 Lois Capps Policy Luminary Award from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for her exceptional contributions to the nursing workforce and healthcare policy. She was honored by Yale School of Nursing with its “90 Outstanding Yale Nurses” award in 2013. In 2008, she received the Kaplan-Landy Award for Vision, Innovation, and Leadership from the Hadassah Nurses Council. She was elected to the New York Academy of Medicine in 2006 and the American Academy of Nursing in 1988.

Cohen earned her PhD from Columbia University, MSN from Yale University, and BA from Cornell University.

 

PhD - Columbia University
MSN - Yale University
BA - Cornell University

Pediatric
Community/population health
Health Policy

American Academy of Nursing
American Nurses Association
American Political Science Association
American Public Health Association
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

Lois Capps Policy Luminary Award, American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2019)
90 Nurses for 90 Years, Yale University School of Nursing (2013)
Kaplan-Landy Award for Vision, Innovation, and Leadership, Hadassah National Nurses Council (2008)
Elected to the New York Academy of Medicine (2006)
Ellen Rudy Clore Excellence in Writing Award, Journal of Pediatric Health Care (1998)
Dissertation approved with distinction (1993)
Marisa de Castro Benton Prize, for outstanding dissertation in Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University (1993)
Elected to American Academy of Nursing (1988)
Elected to Sigma Theta Tau, International, Honor Society for Nursing, as charter member Delta Mu Chapter (1979)

Promoting the nurse practitioner role in managed care

Cohen, S. S., & Juszczak, L. (1997). Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 11(1), 3-11. 10.1016/S0891-5245(97)90137-1
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Managed care poses opportunities for nurse practitioners, providing they successfully negotiate new health care systems. This requires being familiar with Medicaid waivers and state policies regarding health insurance. In addition, knowledge of credentialing and compensation mechanisms under managed care enhances nurse practitioners' ability to forge providers roles. Because of the overlap between priorities of nurse practitioner practice and managed care, nurse practitioners have the potential to strenghten their roles as primary and specialty care providers in traditional and nontraditional settings.

Stages of nursing's political development: Where we've been and where we ought to go

Cohen, S. S., Mason, D. J., Kovner, C., Leavitt, J. K., Pulcini, J., & Sochalski, J. (1996). Nursing Outlook, 44(6), 259-266. 10.1016/S0029-6554(96)80081-9

Health care policy and abortion: A comparison. The abortion policies of these Western, industrialized countries reflect different attitudes toward women's health, children, and families

Solomon Cohen, S. (1990). Nursing Outlook, 38(1), 20-25.
Abstract
Abstract
The abortion policies in legal and social context of the United State, Canada, Great Britain and Italy are compared and contrasted. U.S. abortion policy is unique in being promulgated by the courts, rather than the legislature. The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision made the U.S. one of the 1st Western countries to liberalize abortion. U.S. law seems to be interested is protecting the life of the fetus, in contrast to other Western nations whose policies further the life of the child and support mothers and families. The U.S. has a relatively low rate of contraceptive use, because contraceptive services are not free to all in need, and furthermore are provided by medical specialists who bill at market rates. The Canadian federal abortion law of 1967 was reversed by the supreme court in 1988, leaving abortion policy up to each province. Where abortion is paid for by state funds, doctors usually add on a fee. In contrast to the U.S., contraception is subsidized and readily available. In Great Britain, the Abortion Act of 1967 permits abortion in hospitals after the woman receives permission of 2 doctors. Since 1976 it has been permitted in private clinics, but most women wait the average 3 weeks and go for the 2-day hospital stay under the National Health Service. Abortion rates are less than half those in the U.S., while contraceptive use is more than double. In Italy abortion is available through the National Health Service in 1st trimester for medical, psychological and social reasons. Most clients are married mothers aged 25-34, reflecting the lower contraceptive use rate there.

The politics of Medicaid: 1980-1989

Cohen, S. S. (1990). Nursing Outlook, 38(5), 229-233.

Intercomparison of three diffusion batteries for the measurement of radon decay product particle size distributions

Knutson, E. O., Tu, K. W., Solomon, S. B., & Strong, J. (1988). Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 24(1), 261-264. 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a080282
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Abstract
Three different types of diffusion batteries for the measurement of radon progeny particle size distribution were intercompared as part of the International Intercalibration and Intercomparison Programme for Radon, Thoron and Daughters Measuring Equipment (IIIP). The IIIP is a joint project of the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Radiation Protection Research Programme of the Commission of European Communities. The intercomparisons were carried out at both the Australian Radiation Laboratory and the Environmental Measurements Laboratory. Eleven intercomparison tests were completed, covering both low and high concentrations of test aerosol. The test measurements of the three batteries were found to agree through the main part of the size spectrum, 50 to 500 nm. Disagreement was found if the test aerosol had substantial activity on particles larger than 500 nm; this was not surprising in view of the known limitations of diffusion batteries. There was some disagreement also for particles smaller than 20 nm, but we consider measurements in this area to be at the forefront of aerosol research.

Nursing's Window of Opportunity

Maraldo, P. J., & Solomon, S. B. (1987). Image: The Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 19(2), 83-86. 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1987.tb00598.x
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The key questions to be asked in shaping a vision for nursing should be, What are the overall goals that direct the flow of nursing practice? What is nursing's own health policy agenda for the American people? Like any strategic planning effort, shaping our vision makes us gather data about the environment; analyze, examine and reexamine the data; and then link these opportunities and problems to the mission of nursing. The window of opportunity for nursing is now open.

Budget crunch threatens nursing's place in the Federal ledger.

Solomon, S. B. (1986). Nursing & Health Care : Official Publication of the National League for Nursing, 7(4), 189-190.

Children with short stature

Solomon, S. B. (1986). Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 1(2), 80-89.
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Pediatric nurses play an important role in caring for children with short stature. With their special knowledge of nursing assessment and interventions, pediatric nurses are coordinators, resource people, and patient educators. They provide services that are inherently part of the nurse's role, such as promoting better understanding of children's age-specific psychosocial needs and screening for underlying medical problems.

Congress overrides Presidential veto: nurses triumph.

Solomon, S. B. (1986). Nursing & Health Care : Official Publication of the National League for Nursing, 7(1), 14-15.

Key concepts in public policy: student workbook.

Solomon, S. B., & Roe, S. C. (1986). NLN Publications, 15, i-vi, 1.