Dr. Riegel teaches NURS 104 ìHealthy Life Styles I" in the sophomore year of the nursing program. In this course we examine the risk factors for various diseases, ways to decrease risk factors, and nurses' roles in prevention. This is the first clinical course in the nursing program. Students learn skills in the School of Nursing laboratory and then apply those skills and the material learned in class to various community settings.

Research
Since 1994, Dr. Riegel has led interdisciplinary research in chronic heart failure, an extremely common and debilitating syndrome. Approximately 550,000 new cases of heart failure occur each year in the United States and one year mortality rates for newly diagnosed cases averages 35-45%. In her research, Dr. Riegel has tested various disease management approaches and developed psychometrically sound methods of measuring the self-care of persons with heart failure.

Clinical Practice
Dr. Riegel is certified as a Clinical Nurse Specialist by the American Nurses Association. Since moving from San Diego, California to join the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Riegel has maintained her formal relationship with Sharp HealthCare in San Diego as a Clinical Researcher. Her research is conducted in that environment in preparation for direct implementation into clinical practice. Dr. Riegel has published her clinically relevant research widely in peer reviewed journals and books.

Honors/Credentials
A selection of her honors include the first annual Nursing Research Award of the Heart Failure Society of America, the Distinguished Research Lectureship Award from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the Heart Failure Research Prize from the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Otsuka America, Inc., and research awards from the Gamma Gamma Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau. She received the San Diego State University Alumni Association Distinguished Alumna Award and the award for Outstanding Faculty Contributions. Dr. Riegel is a Fellow in both the American Academy of Nursing and the American Heart Association.

Frank Morgan Jones Fund Pilot
Relationships Among Sleepiness, Cognition, Mood, and Self-Care in Persons with Heart Failureî Period: June 1, 2003 to May 31, 2004 Project Summary: Poor self-care is common in elders with heart failure. The project study exams the relationship between sleepiness as a contributor to poor self-care through its effects on cognition and mood. The study is to generate pilot data testing the relationships among these variables using sleepiness as a significant predictor of cognitive deficits, distressed mood and poor self-care. Resulting Work:

Chriss, P.M., Sheposh, J., Carlson, B., & Riegel, B. (2004). Predictors of successful heart failure self-care maintenance in the first three months after hospitalization. Heart & Lung, 33(6), 345-353.

Riegel, B., Carlson, B., Moser, D.K., Sebern, M., Hicks, F.D., Roland, V. (2004). Psychometric Testing of the Self-Care of Heart Failure Index. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 10(4), 350-360.

How Sleepiness influences self-care in persons with heart failureî, Heart Failure Society of America, September, 2004, Journal of Cardiac Failure supplement 10 (4), supplement, abstract 378.

RO1 Grant - Impact of sleepiness on heart failure self-care Agency Reference #: 1-R01-HL-084394 National Institutes of Health 6/1/2007-5/31/2010 Principal Investigator: Barbara Riegel, DNSc, RN, FAAN, FAHA Co-Investigator: Terri Weaver, PhD, FAAN, RN