Christine Kovner RN, PhD, FAAN

Christine Kovner is a Professor at the College of Nursing, New York University and Senior Fellow, Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing also at the College. She is a Faculty Partner, New York University Hospitals Center (NYUHC).

Dr. Kovner's research focuses on the cost and use of health personnel. She is currently the principal investigator of two grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study newly licensed registered nurses who will be followed over ten years. She has recently completed two Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funded grants. One was on nurses' decisions to work and the other was on nurses' working conditions.

Dr. Kovner is the co-author of the book Financial Management for Nurse Managers and Executives now in its 3rd edition. She is a Senior Associate Editor of Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice. Her 2007 published articles include, "Newly licensed RNs' characteristics, work attitudes, and intentions to work" in  the American Journal of Nursing, "Qualitative analysis of responses of nurses to a survey about job satisfaction and turnover,"  and "Work attitudes of older RNs."

Among Dr. Kovner's many honors is her election to membership in the American Academy of Nursing and her 1999 Best of Image (Journal of Nursing Scholarship) Award in Health Policy for her article "Nurse staffing levels and adverse events following surgery in U. S. hospitals."