Anat Drach-zahavy

Biography

Drach-Zahavy earned her PhD degree in Organizational Psychology at the Technicon, the Israel Institute of Technology. From year 2000, she is academic staff at the Department of nursing, the Faculty of Health, and Welfare Sciences, at the Department of Nursing, the University of Haifa, where she now serves as an Associate Professor. As an Organizational Psychologist, her research tries to understand the challenges that health organizations set before managers regarding management, teamwork, and ward's effectiveness. She is particularly interested in effectiveness in terms of safety, and quality of care. Her This endeavor comes at a time of growing recognition in healthcare that its fundamental challenges are organizational, not merely clinical. Hence her research interests focus on: -Safety- including providers’ safety, patient safety, and effective handover -Promoting nurses' health, and well-being -Inter-disciplinary teamwork -Dissimilation of evidence based practice Her research was funded by several important national and international research grants.Drach-Zahavy earned her PhD degree in Organizational Psychology at the Technicon, the Israel Institute of Technology. From year 2000, she is academic staff at the Department of nursing, the Faculty of Health, and Welfare Sciences, at the Department of Nursing, the University of Haifa, where she now serves as an Associate Professor. As an Organizational Psychologist, her research tries to understand the challenges that health organizations set before managers regarding management, teamwork, and ward's effectiveness. She is particularly interested in effectiveness in terms of safety, and quality of care. Her This endeavor comes at a time of growing recognition in healthcare that its fundamental challenges are organizational, not merely clinical. Hence her research interests focus on: -Safety- including providers’ safety, patient safety, and effective handover -Promoting nurses' health, and well-being -Inter-disciplinary teamwork -Dissimilation of evidence based practice Her research was funded by several important national and international research grants.

Research Interest

-Safety- including providers’ safety, patient safety, and effective handover -Promoting nurses' health, and well-being -Inter-disciplinary teamwork -Dissimilation of evidence-based practice Her research was funded by several important national and international research grants.