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Faculty Profile

Marjorie Dobratz, RN, D.N.Sc.

• D.N.Sc., Nursing, University of San Diego, 1990.

Office:	CP 327
Phone:	253-692-5676
E-mail:	mdobratz@u.washington.edu

Marjorie Dobratz assumed the Nursing Program Director position at UW Tacoma in 1999, a position she held for nine years. Before her appointment, she chaired the Department of Nursing at Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles from 1991 to 1999, where she developed new programs and advanced adaptation nursing theory. Other professional experiences include the development and coordination of home hospice programs and palliative care research. Her interest in hospice/palliative care led to designing a tool constructed to measure psychological adaptation in death and dying (Life Closure Scale), describing pain in terminal care populations, and predicting influences that effect psychological well-being in dying persons. Dr. Dobratz continues to explore various aspects of the dying process and the Roy Adaptation Model as a framework for developing nursing knowledge.

Dr. Dobratz received her Doctor of Nursing Science (DNSc.) at the Phillip Y. Hahn School of Nursing, University of San Diego, her MSN and BSN from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and her nursing diploma from the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland

Research Interest Areas:

• Terminal pain
• Psychological responses in dying persons
• Measurement of psychological adaptation in hospice/palliative care populations
• Development of Roy Adaptation Nursing Theory
• Spirituality in end-of-life populations

Recent Publications

Dobratz, M.C. (2008). Moving Nursing Science Forward within the Framework of the Roy Adaptation Model, Nursing Science Quarterly, 21 (3), 255-259.

Dobratz, M.C. (2006). Enriching the Portrait: Methodological triangulation of life-closing theory. Advances in Nursing Science, 29 (3), 260-170.

Dobratz, M.C., Primomo, J., & Bjorling, E. (2006). Outcomes of scholarly inquiry: An analysis of master's of nursing students' projects/theses. Journal of Professional Nursing, 22 (5), 296-303

Dobratz, M. C. (2005). A comparative study of life-closing spirituality in home hospice patients. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice: An International Journal, 19 (3), 243-256.

Dobratz, M. C. (2005). Gently into the light: A call for the critical analysis of end-of-life outcomes. Advances in Nursing Science, 28 (2), 116-126.

Dobratz, M. C. (2004). The Life Closure Scale: Additional testing of a tool to measure psychological adaptation in death and dying. Research in Nursing & Health, 27 (1), 52-62.

Dobratz, M. C. (2004). Life closing spirituality and the philosophic assumptions of the Roy adaptation model. Nursing Science Quarterly, 17 (4), 335-338.

Dobratz, M. C., & Pilkington, B. K. (2004). A dialogue about two nursing science traditions: The Roy adaptation model and the human becoming. Nursing Science Quarterly, 17 (4), 301-307.

Dobratz, M. C. (2004) A comparative study of variables that have an impact on noncancer end-of-life diagnoses. Clinical Nursing Research, 13 (4), 309-325.

Dobratz, M. C. (2003). Issues and dilemmas of conducting research with vulnerable home hospice participants. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 35 (4), 371-376.

Dobratz, M. C. (2002-03). The self-transacting dying: Patterns of social-psychological adaptation in home hospice patients. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 46 (2), 147-163.

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