Becky Faett, PhD, MSN, RN, MBA

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Biography

Becky Faett, PhD, MSN, MBA, RN, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Pittsburgh. Her clinical emphases include critical care, perioperative, and medical surgical nursing.

Dr. Faett is part of the Aim 3, tier 1 researchers for The Caregiver Project. She conducted observations and documented health providers’ demonstration of understanding and implementation of the CARE Act at local UPMC hospitals.

In addition to that work, Dr. Faett teaches nursing students, in both didactic and clinical. Her education emphasizes the integration of the caregiver and includes interactive EBP videos, telehealth simulations, and care recipient-caregiver education and interactions.

Overall she is interested in self-management of the care recipient through telehealth as well as addressing health literacy of both the caregiver and care recipient (as well as the impact of that health literacy on care recipient outcomes).

Read the new 2022 State of Aging, Disability, & Family Caregiving in Allegheny County report, which provides essential data on many key topics including income and poverty, work and retirement, neighborhoods and housing, transportation, physical health, health care access, health behaviors, mental health, social support/health, elder mistreatment, senior service use, and internet and technology use.
The study was conducted by the University Center for Social & Urban Research (UCSUR) and Health Policy Institute (HPI) at the University of Pittsburgh in partnership with various local organizations.

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Center for Caregiving
Executive Committee

Richard Schulz, PhD
Director
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry

Scott Beach, PhD
Interim Director, University Center for
Social and Urban Research (UCSUR)

Heidi Donovan, PhD, RN
Professor, Department of Health and Community Systems
School of Nursing

Everette James, JD, MBA
Director, Pitt Health Policy Institute
Associate Vice Chancellor Health Policy and Planning

Ann-Marie Rosland, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine