Amil Tan, PhD, MHC, RN, MEDSURG-BC

Assistant Professor

Amil Tan is an assistant professor at Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing.

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Educational Background

PhD, Nursing, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2021
MA, Nursing, University of the Philippines Open University, Philippines, 2020
MHC, Master in Health Care, Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland, 2014
MS, Erasmus Mundus Master in Emergency and Critical Care Nursing, University of Oviedo, Spain, 2014
BS, Nursing, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, Philippines, 2007

Honors and Awards

“Special Program Awardee” special recognition for graduate students; University of the Philippines, Open University, Philippines, 2020.
Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, 2018.
“Matricula de Honor” the highest honor for graduate students; Universidad de Oviedo, Spain, 2014.

Research

Dr. Amil Tan’s program of research focuses on addressing long-term care reform efforts on outcomes sensitive to nurses and the older adult population. Projects have included exploring nurse practice environment, moral distress, and nurse retention in long-term care; investigating the impact of a nurse-led interdisciplinary heart failure team program on rehospitalization and nurse-patient interaction among older adults with heart failure in a nursing home, and have been involved in understanding resident-to-resident aggression in assisted living facilities. He is also interested in psychometric evaluation and has done research on validating long-term care moral distress questionnaires and collaborated in the development and testing of the Lucidity in Dementia and Neurological Impairment Measure (LD-NIM) questionnaire. Currently, Dr. Tan is involved in research projects in reducing falls and injuries among hospitalized older adults with cancer and in addressing health disparities among older urban persons with chronic diseases.

Grants and Publications

2023: PI, Social determinants of health and the use of newer anti-hyperglycemic agents for diabetes using NHANES dataset. PSC-CUNY Award # 66101-00 54, Cycle 54, PSC-CUNY, 2023-2024, $3,500.
2023: PI (Co-I: W. Samuels), Using ZIP code level social determinants of health, diabetes, and obesity in a primary care. Investigator Development Core Program, National Institute of Health/National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), $50,000.
2022: Co-I (PIs: R. Martelly & M. Scaramuzzino; Co-Is: S. Lall & E. Capezuti), Factors associated with falls and falls with injury specific to medical-oncology inpatient at the Bellevue Hospital. Supported by IGNITE-CHAPP, NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue & Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, 2022-2024, 3 credit course release.
2020: PI, Intent to stay, moral distress, and nurse practice environment among long term care nurses. Keville Frederickson Scholarship Fund, 2020-2021, $1,500.
2019: Research Assistant (PIs: J. Teresi & J.A. Luchsinger; Co-I: J.J. Manly), Measurement and estimation of lucidity prevalence in persons with dementia and neurological disorders. National Institute on Aging (NIA) grant number 1R21AG069748-01, 2019-2020, $397,172. This work was also supported in part by the Columbia Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Alzheimer’s Disease Disparities (CIRAD) grant number 1P30AG059303 (PIs: Manly, Luchsinger), and the Measurement Methods and Analysis Core of the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, National Institute of Health, 1P30AG028741, Siu.A.
2018: Research Assistant (PIs: J. Teresi, M.S. Lachs, & K. Pillemer), Resident-to-Resident elder mistreatment intervention for dementia care in assisted living. Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, National Institute of Aging grant number 5R01AG057389, 2018-2021, $3,065,778.
2011: Co-I (PIs: B. Al Jannadi & R. Aldosary; Co-I: O. Jeffrey), Assessing healthcare-associated infections and hand hygiene perceptions amongst healthcare professionals. 2011-2012, 50,000 SAR.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Tan, A., Bagnoli, J., Morgan, C., & Balabagno, A. (2023). Outcomes of a Nurse-led Interdisciplinary Heart Failure Team Program (NLI-HFTP) in a nursing home: A pilot study. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 49(12), 18–23. https://doi.org/10.3928/00989134-20231108-02
Tan, A., Samuels, W.E., Backhaus, R., & Capezuti, E. (2023). Moral distress in long-term care questionnaire modification and psychometric evaluation. Nursing Ethics, 30(6), 789–802. https://doi.org/10.1177/09697330231151349
Teresi, J.A., Ramirez, M., Ellis, J., Tan, A., Capezuti, E., Silver, S., Boratgis, G., Eimicke, J.P., Gonzalez-Lopez, P., Devanand, D.P., & Luchsinger, J.A. (2023). Reports about paradoxical lucidity from health care professionals: A pilot study. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 49(1), 18–26. https://doi.org/10.3928/00989134-20221206-03
Tan, A.K. (2020). Compassionate deception: A concept analysis. International Journal of Caring Sciences, 13(2), 1467–1473.
Tan, A.K. (2019). Models of palliative care in long-term care: An integrative review. International Journal of Caring Sciences, 12(2), 892–905.
Tan, A.K. (2019). Integrating palliative care and hospice services in long term care: An eightfold path health policy analysis. International Journal of Public Health Science, 8(2), 1–8.
Tan, A., & Olivo, J. (2015). Assessing healthcare-associated infections and hand hygiene perceptions amongst healthcare professionals. International Journal of Caring Sciences, 8(1), 108–114.
Tan, A. (2015). Emphasizing caring components in nurse-patient-nurse bedside reporting. International Journal of Caring Sciences, 8(1), 188–193.
Tan, A., Metsälä, E., & Hannula, L. (2014). Benefits and barriers of clown care: A phenomenograpical study of parents in clown care services. European Journal of Humour Research, 2(2), 1–10.

Non Peer-Reviewed Articles

Tan, A.K. (2018, October). An Interview with Franklin A. Shaffer, President, and CEO of CGFNS International. Nursing Economic$, The Journal for Healthcare Leaders. Retrieved from https://www.spreaker.com/user/jpi-podcasts/nec-006-final
Tan, A. (2018). Improving practice to reduce falls in the nursing home. American Nurse Today. Retrieved from https://www.americannursetoday.com/blog/improving-practice-to-reduce-falls-in-the-nursing-home/
Tan, A. (2018). The changing landscape of the nursing home. American Nurse Today. Retrieved from https://www.americannursetoday.com/blog/the-changing-landscape-of-the-nursing-home/

Contact Details

Amil Tan

School of Nursing
Brookdale West 407
212-396-7165
at5528@hunter.cuny.edu