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Faculty Profile

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Noreen C. Facione, RN, PhD, FAAN

Associate Professor, Emerita
Dept. of Physiological Nursing
UCSF School of Nursing
2 Koret Way, #N-611
San Francisco, CA  94143-0610
Telephone:  (415) 476-2191    Fax:  (415) 476-8899
Email:  noreen.facione@ucsf.edu


Research and Current Projects

Dr. Facione is involved in a program of research to exam high risk decision-making. She is a methodologist who has developed a variety of measurement tools related to health risk decisions, health care utilization, perceived access to health care and perceived prejudice in health care delivery. She leads a research team that has developed a series of instruments to measure critical thinking skills and habits of mind that are currently used widely by researchers and clinicians around the world. Funding:  American Cancer Society, National Institutes of Nursing Research, Sigma Theta Tau, Insight Assessment.

Selected Honors and Awards

Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
Visiting Professor, Combined Doctoral Programs of Finland, Tempere University
Honored lecturer, Singapore Ministry of Health
Outstanding Alumnus Award, Medical College of Ohio School of Nursing

Professional Activities

Society for Behavior Medicine
Society for Medical Decision Making
International Society on Judgment and Decision Making
Oncology Nurses Society

Education

Bowling Green State Univ./Medical College of Toledo (Ohio), B.S., Nursing
California State University, M.S., Nursing
University of California, San Francisco, Ph.D., Nursing

Selected Publications

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Facione, N.C. and Facione, P. A. (2006, in press). The cognitive structuring of patient delay. Social Science & Medicine. This paper presents a new methodology for analyzing authentic decision data by describing the thinking process involved the decision to delay diagnosis in women with self-discovered breast symptoms suggestive of breast cancer.

Facione, P. and Facione, N.C. Talking critical thinking. (Change Magazine. In press, March 2007). This paper discusses critical thinking teaching and assessment in a college level curriculum.

Facione, N. C. and Facione, P. A. (2005). The Health Sciences Reasoning Test. Validation study and publication through Insight Assessment. Millbrae, CA. This critical thinking testing instrument is designed to measure higher order thiking skills in health science students and clinicians.

Katapodi, M.C., Facione, N.C., Humphreys, J.C., Dodd, M.J. (2005). Perceived breast cancer risk: heuristic reasoning and search for a dominance structure. Social Science & Medicine, 60 (2), 421-432. This paper discusses the reasoning process associated with perceived risk of breast cancer in a community based sample.

Facione, N. C., Miaskowski, C., Dodd, M.J., and Paul, S. M. (2002). The self-reported likelihood of patient delay in breast cancer: New thoughts for early detection. Preventive Medicine, 34, 397-407. This paper links social and behavioral variables with the likelihood of patient delay in the diagnosis of breast cancer. The study reports on a large community based sample.

Facione, N. C. (2002). The J-Delay Scale: A measure of the likelihood of patient delay in breast cancer. Research & Theory for Nursing Practice: An International Journal, 16(2), 103-118. This paper describes the development of a measure of likelihood for patient delay in breast cancer. The validity and reliability of the instrument is established with a series of research studies in varying cohorts.

Facione, N. C. (2002). Perceived risk for breast cancer: An application of research in human cognition. Cancer Practice, 10(5), 256-262. This paper links perceived risk for breast cancer with a number of cognitive and social psychological variables.

Facione, N.C. and Facione, P. A. (2002) Analyzing Explanations for seemingly irrational choices: Linking argument analysis and cognitive science. International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 15(2), 267-286. This paper introduces a method of decision data analysis using the example of smoking cessation.

Facione, N.C. & Facione, P. A. (1992). CCTDI: The California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory. Insight Assessment, Millbrae, CA: California Academic Press. This measure of critical thinking disposition is now used internationally to measure personality characteristics associated with excellence in critical thinking ability.

Facione, P. A. & Facione, N. C. (1992). The California Critical Thinking Skills Test. A college level test of critical thinking skills. Insight Assessment, Millbrae, CA: California Academic Press. This instrument measures critical thinking skills and has been translated into 12 languages for use by researchers and educators to measure higher order thinking skills.


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