Teaching: Dr. Horgas teaches research to undergraduate and graduate students and theory to PhD students.
Research: Dr. Horgas conducts research on aging, with a focus on pain management in persons with dementia. She completed a Post Doctoral Fellowship in Psychological Gerontology at the Free University of Berlin. She is currently funded by the National Institute on Aging to study cognitive interventions for older adults, and recently completed an NINR-funded study of pain assessment in nursing home residents.
Service: Dr. Horgas serves as the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Nursing. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the Gerontological Society of America, and a member of the Florida Nurses Association and the Southern Nursing Research Society. She has been the recipient of the Southern Nursing Research Society Hartford Institute Geriatric Nursing Award, Springer Award for Geriatric/Gerontological Nursing, the Harriet H. Werley New Investigator Award, Midwest Nursing Research Society, and the Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing Research.
Education: Dr. Horgas received her BS in Nursing, MS in Adult Health Nursing and PhD in Human Development and Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University.
Selected Publications:
Diehl, M. Marsiske, M., Horgas, A. L., Rosenberg, A., Saczynski, J., & Willis, S. W. (2005). The Revised Observed Tasks of Daily Living: A performance-based assessment of everyday problem solving in older adults. . Journal of Applied Gerontology, 24(3), 211-230.
Horgas, A. L., & Elliott, A. F. (2004). Pain assessment and management in persons with dementia. Nursing Clinics of North America, 39 (3), 593-606.
Horgas, A. L., & Abowd, G. (2004). The impact of technology on living environments for older adults. In R. Pew & S. Van Hemel (Eds.) Technology for Adaptive Aging: Report and Papers. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Horgas, A. L. & McLennon, S. H. (2003). Pain management in older adults. In Mezey, M., Fulmer, T., Abraham, I., Zwicker, D. (Eds.).Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice (2nd ed.) (pp. 229-250) New York: Springer.
Horgas, A. L. (2003). Assessing pain in persons with dementia. Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, Division of Nursing, New York, 1( 2).
Horgas, A. L., McLennon, S., & Floetke, A. (2003) Pain management in persons with dementia. Alzheimer's Care Quarterly, 4 (4), 297-311.
Horgas, A. L., & Dunn, K . (2001). Pain in nursing home residents: Comparison of residents' self-report and nursing assistants' perceptions. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 27, 44-53.
Horgas, A. L., & Margrett, J. A. (2001). Use of the Minimum Data Set to measure behavioral and mood disruptions in nursing home residents. The use of the Revised Memory and Behavior Problem Checklist in nursing home research. Outcomes Management for Nursing Practice, 5, 28-35.
Dunn, K., & Horgas, A. L. (2000). The prevalence of prayer as a spiritual self-care modality in elders. Journal of Holistic Nursing, 18, 337-351.
Horgas, A. L., & Tsai, P. F (1998). Analgesic drug prescription and use in cognitively impaired nursing home residents. Nursing Research, 47, 235-242.
