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Linda S. Scheirton, PhD
Faculty Associate, Center for Health Policy and Ethics
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Pharmacy and
Health Professions
Primary Appointment:
Associate Professor, Doctor of Occupational Therapy Program
Secondary Appointments:
Associate Professor, Pharmacy Sciences
Associate Professor, Physical Therapy
Clinical Associate Professor, Periodontics
Ph.D. 1990, University of Texas at Austin
M.A. 1978, University of Texas at San Antonio
B.S. 1975, Texas A&I University at Corpus Christi
A.A.S. 1974, Del Mar College
Dr. Linda Scheirton
Creighton University Medical Center
School of Pharmacy and Health Professions
Criss III, G75
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178
(402) 280-3109
scheirtl@creighton.edu
Biography
Dr. Linda Scheirton came to Creighton University in 1998 and joined the Center for Health Policy and Ethics as a Faculty Associate in January 1999. She has interdisciplinary experience in bioethics, clinical practice, academic teaching and university administration. She has completed fellowship programs in philosophical ethics and clinical bioethics. Her interest in bioethics began in 1983 when she was chosen to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Summer Institute on Health Care Ethics for Allied Health Faculty at the University of Kentucky. Her interest in the area grew exponentially and in the late 1980’s she completed a doctorate with an emphasis in higher education administration and bioethics from the University of Texas at Austin. During her studies, she was a Clinical Ethics Fellow at Loyola University of Chicago, School of Medicine, Medical Humanities Department. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Philosophy and Health Care at the University of Wales, University College of Swansea. She has lived and worked in several foreign countries- The Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Italy.
Dr. Scheirton has taught students and practitioners in dentistry, dental hygiene, nursing, medicine, pharmacy, occupational therapy, physical therapy and other health care disciplines. She has served as a member of three Hospital Ethics Committees and on the Ethics Consultation Service of two major medical center hospitals. She has been a health care professional association liaison to a state health regulatory board. She holds memberships in several health care and bioethics-related professional organizations such as the American Society for Bioethics and Society; European Society for Philosophy and Healthcare; Nebraska Coalition for Compassionate Care; International Dental Ethics and Law Society; and Professional Ethics in Dentistry Network. She serves as an editorial board member for HEC Forum (HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum: An Interprofessional Journal on Healthcare Institutions’ Ethical and Legal Issues) and reviewer for several other ethics-related journals. She is currently a co-investigator for a National Patient Safety Foundation grant entitled: Improve Patients’ Safety: Learning Model to Reduce Errors in Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy Practice.
Areas of Research
Practitioner errors
Patient safety
Hospital ethics committees
Ethics of practitioner advertising
Ethical issues in the treatment of Alzheimer patients
Selected Publications
Articles
Mu, K., Lohman, H, and Scheirton, L. (September 19, 2005). To Err is Human, OT Practice, 13-16.
Lohman, H., Mu, K., and Scheirton, L. Occupational Therapists Perspectives on Practice Errors in Geriatric Settings. Physical and Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, 21(4), 2003.
Scheirton, L.S., Mu, K. and Lohman, H. Occupational Therapists’ Responses to Practice Errors in Physical Rehabilitation. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 57(3), 2003.
Kissell, J and Scheirton, L.S. Special Thematic Issue on Embodiment. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics: Philosophy of Medical Research and Practice, 22(1), 2001.
Scheirton, L and Kissell, J. Leverage of the Law: The Increasing Influence of Law on Hospital Ethics Committees. Health Care Ethics Committee Forum (HEC FORUM): An Interprofessional Journal on HealthCare Institutions’ Ethical and Legal Issues, 13(1), 1-12, 2001.
Scheirton, L.S. Guest Editor, Special Thematic Issue on Leverage of the Law. Health Care Ethics Committee Forum(HEC FORUM): An Interprofessional Journal on Health Care Institutions’ Ethical and Legal Issues, 13(1), 2001.
Book Chapters
Lohman, H., Poole, S.E., Scheirton, L.S. and Sullivan, J.L. Clinical Reasoning Applied to Splint Fabrication. In Coppard, B. and Lohman, H. (Eds.), Introduction to Splinting: A Clinical Reasoning and Problem Solving Approach, Third Edition, in press.
Scheirton, L.S. The Ethical Dimensions of Alzheimer’s Disease Decision-Making: The Need for Early Patient and Family Educational Interventions. In Purtilo, R. and ten Have, H. (Eds). Ethical Foundations of Palliative Care for Alzheimer Disease, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Scheirton, L.S., et al. Appendix A. The Declaration of Berg en Dal on Ethical Principles Guiding Palliative Care of Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease. In Purtilo, R. and ten Have, H. (Eds). Ethical Foundations of Palliative Care for Alzheimer Disease, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Scheirton, L.S. The Autonomy of the Health-care Provider: Advertising by Health Professionals, Part I, Foundations and History of Bioethics, Chapter 2, Case 2, p. 93-107. In ten Have, H. and Gordijn, B. (Eds.) Bioethics in a European Perspective, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.
Honors
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Charles A. Monasee Faculty Development Award
Teaching Excellence Award, Post-Professional Occupational
Therapy Doctoral Students
Literary Award, Outstanding Contribution to Dental Literature,
International College of Dentists