Biography
Rachel Lenko is an expert on advance care planning and end-of-life nursing care. She received her PhD in nursing from the University of Michigan and teaches courses on foundational nursing concepts, adult-medical surgical nursing, and the intersection of Reformed Christian thinking and nursing.
Education
- PhD, University of Michigan, nursing, 2022
- BSN, Calvin College, 2017
Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor of Nursing, Concordia University Ann Arbor, 2022-2023
- T32 Predoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan School of Nursing, 2019-2022
- Registered Nurse, Mount Nittany Medical Center: Medical-Oncology Unit, 2018-2019
- Registered Nurse, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, 2017-2018
Academic Interests
- Adult medical-surgical nursing
- Palliative and end-of-life care
- Informal caregivers
Research
Select Publications
- Lenko, R., Hoffman, G. J., Robinson-Lane, S. G., Silveira, M. J., Voepel-Lewis, T., (2024). Achieving Goal-Concordant Care: Formal and Informal Advance Care Planning for White, Black, and Hispanic Older Adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 72(8), 2412-2422.
- Umberfield, E., Fields, M. C., Lenko, R., Morgan, T. P., Schuler Adair, E., Fromme, E. K., Lum, H. D., Moss, A. H., Wenger, N. S., Sudore, R. L., Hickman, S. E., (2024). An Integrative Review of the State of POLST Science: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go? Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 25(4), 557-564.
- Lenko, R., Voepel-Lewis, T., Robinson-Lane, S. G., Silveira, M. J., Hoffman, G. J. (2022). Racial and Ethnic Differences in Informal and Formal Advance Care Planning Among U.S. Older Adults. Journal of Aging and Health, 34(9-10), 1281-1290.
- Voepel-Lewis, T., Veliz, P. T., Heinze, J., Boyd, C. J., Zikmund-Fisher, B., Lenko, R., Grant, J., Bromberg, H., Kelly, A., Tait, A. (2022). Enhancing Risk Perception may be Insufficient to Curtail Prescription Opioid Use and Misuse among Youth after Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Patient Education and Counseling, 105(7), 2217-2224.
- Lenko, R., Voepel-Lewis, T. (2021). To relieve pain or avoid opioid-related risk? A comparison of parents’ analgesic trade-off preferences and decision-making in 2019 versus 2013 in a single U.S. pediatric hospital. Pediatric Anesthesia, 31(8), 878–884.&²Ô²ú²õ±è;
- Polick, C., Cho, Y., Harris, M. L., Johnson, F. U., Granner, J. R., Lee, H., Lenko, R., Liestenfeltz, B., Webster, K., Youmans, A., Zhou, W. (2021). The future speaks: The next generation of nurse scientists’ perspectives on team science as the discipline’s future. Nursing Outlook, 69(4), 518-520.
Professional Associations
- Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, 2016 – Present
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