NANCY A NICKMAN portrait
  • Adjunct Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • Professor, Pharmacotherapy
  • Presidential Teaching Scholar, Pharmacotherapy
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Research Statement

To conduct patient-centered outcomes research based on application of industrial engineering and economic ananlyses that improve the provision and quality of patient care given by health professionals.

Research Keywords

  • Patient-Centered Care

Presentations

  • Kim J, Nickman N. Comorbidities, quality of life, and US healthcare access by risk cohort characteristics of people calculated using Framingham risk percent from the US national health and nutrition examination survey (NHANES). ISPOR 15th Annual International Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia USA: 2010 May 19. [Poster]. Poster, Presented, 05/2010.
  • Kim J, Nickman N. Spatial dependence (or cluster) in total number of prescription drugs filled at retail pharmacies in US. ISPOR 15th Annual International Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia USA: 2010 May 18. [Poster]. Poster, Presented, 05/2010.
  • Nickman NA, Haak SW, Kim JW. Use of clinical simulation centers to conduct patient-centered time-and-motion simulations s a basis for economic analysis. ISPOR 15th Annual International Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia USA: 2010 May 17. [Poster]. Poster, Presented, 05/2010.
  • NA. Impact of new technologies on the future of pharmacy practice. DUPHAT 2010 Dubai International Pharmaceuticals and Technologies Conference and Exhibition. Dubai, United Arab Emirates; 2010 March 16. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/2010.

Research Interests

Dr. Nancy Nickman is a Professor of Pharmacotherapy and Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah. She received a B.S. in Pharmacy (1982, University of Montana), and graduate degrees from the University of Minnesota in Hospital Pharmacy (1984, MS) and Social and Administrative Pharmacy (1987, PhD). She also completed an ASHP Residency at United and Children's Hospital (1982-1984, St. Paul, MN). Her teaching and research expertise includes patient-centered outcomes research to improve provision and quality of patient care based on application of industrial engineering and economic analyses. Publications and presentations include work sampling evaluations of institutional pharmacy services for re-design of structural and functional activities, pre-post analyses of the impact of technology on the practice of health professionals, simulated time-and-motion evaluations coupled with microcost analyses of issues related to medication preparation and administration, and analysis of devices intended for medication self-administration. Since 2012, Nancy has served as a Clinical Coordinator for Analytics and Outcomes for Pharmacy Services, University of Utah Health. She served as co-Chair of the ASHP Section on Pharmacy Informatics and Technology (SOPIT) Pharmacy Operations Automation (POA) Section Advisory Group (SAG) from 2016-2017. She also co-chaired the “Automation of the Pharmacy Enterprise” subgroup of the POA SAG (2013-2016) and was a POA member until 2019 when she moved, she moved to the Clinical Applications SAG.

Languages

  • English, fluent.

Publications

  • Nickman NA. Safety of automation technologies in healthcare. J Ergonom 2012; 2: e109 doi: 10.4172/2165-7556.1000e109. Editorial. Published, 02/2012.
  • McAdam-Marx C, Unni S, Ye X, Nelson S, Nickman NA. Effect of medicare reimbursement reduction for imaging services on osteoporosis screening rates. J Am Geriatr Soc 2012; doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03837.x. [Epub ahead of print]. Published, 02/2012.
  • Nickman NA, Dunn JD. Issues related to recombinant human growth hormone utilization and optimization in a health plan. Am J Manage Care 2011; 17 (18 Suppl): eS11- eS 15. Published, 12/2011.
  • Dunn JD, Nickman NA. Indications for recombinant human growth hormone and evaluation of available recombinant human growth hormone devices: implications for managed care organizations. Am J Manage Care 2011; 17 (18 Suppl): eS16- eS 22. Published, 12/2011.
  • Nickman NA, Haak SW, Kim JW. Cost minimization analysis of different growth hormone pen devices based on time-and-motion simulations. BMC Nursing 2010; 9 (6): doi http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6955/9/6 . Published, 09/2010.
  • Nickman NA, Haak S, Kim JW. Use of clinical simulation centers in health professions schools for patient-centered research. Sim Healthcare 2010; 5: 295-302. Published, 09/2010.