K. Jane Muir, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, of Pennsylvania

Nurse Researcher Award

Recognizes an individual nurse who has made significant contributions to the profession of nursing, particularly the specialty of emergency nursing by conducting research, disseminating research findings or using research to improve outcomes. Jane Muir is an assistant professor in the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at Penn Nursing and the Department of Emergency Medicine at Penn Medicine. Informed by her emergency nursing clinical background, she conducts research to advance timely and equitable care in hospital emergency departments and to support emergency nurses’ well-being. Her research spans large survey studies of U.S. emergency nurses to clinical interventions that provide in-the-moment stress reduction for nurses in emergency departments. Muir’s research has been presented as testimony before the Vermont Legislature to advance safe nurse staffing ratios. She also serves as a consultant for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to improve acute care transitions in health care by addressing hospital crowding. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Emergency Nursing Association, the Emergency Medicine Foundation and Sigma International. Her research has been published in JAMA Network Open, the Journal of Emergency Nursing, Nursing Outlook, Medical Care and other journals. Muir is a member of ENA’s Emergency Nurse Research Advisory Council and was part of the visioning task force that helped create ENA’s 2025-2030 strategic plan.