Teaching Information
Teaching Interests
- Interprofessional Education
- Quality and Safety
- Entrepreneurship in Healthcare
- BioDesign Innovation
Research Information
Research Interests
- Infection prevention
- Technology-based self-management interventions
- Medical-device innovation for clinical settings
- Gerontology
- Quality improvement and patient safety
- Implementation science
Research Projects
R01-PA-20-183, Application/Award ID 1R01AG078273-01
Role: Principal Investigator
Funder: National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
Project Title: Clean Hands Accessible and Manageable for Patients (CHAMPs): A technology-based self-management intervention to improve patient hand hygiene and reduce hand contamination among older adults.
UL1 TR002548 - Pilot Award
Role: Principal Investigator
05/2020 – 04/2021*
(NCATS)/ NIH/NCATS Clinical Translational Science Collaborative of Cleveland, Funded by National Institutes of Health, from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. The purpose of this grant is to explore the use of technology to enhance hand hygiene self-management of older adults.
KL2TR000440 (PI, Raed Dweik)
Role: Scholar
07/2019 – 04/2023*
(NCATS)/ NIH/NCATS Clinical Translational Science Collaborative of Cleveland, Funded by National Institutes of Health, from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. The purpose of this grant is to designed to address the need to enhance the training of individuals interested in multidisciplinary clinical research and training them to lead and conduct multidisciplinary team-based patient-oriented research effectively.
CTSC Pilot Award (PI, Colin Drummond)
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
09/2019-04/2020
Virtual Assistant System to Enhance Patient Self Medication Outcomes. Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative. The purpose of this study to develop a new interactive virtual assistant to improve medication adherence, patient quality of life and outcomes. My role on the team is to help develop patient and nurse clinical needs for voice algorithms to detect medication use and potential adverse medication interactions Co-collaborators: C. Alfes, E. Zimmermann, S. Frank, M. Pekarek.
Awards and Honors
Publications
Knighton SC. Ideal or real: A call to harness infection prevention education and resources through the lens of equity, inclusion and hygiene poverty. Am J Infect Control. 2022 Oct;50(10):1077-1078. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2022.07.026. PMID: 36150793
Knighton, SC, Bingham, J., Pope, D., Zabarksky, T., Donskey, C. Brief Report- Healthcare staff perceptions of gaps and education needs for patient-led preoperative hygiene using chlorhexidine gluconate skin cleansing products. Am J Infect Control. 2022 Sep 27:S0196-6553(22)00659-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2022.08.031. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36179909.
Knighton, SC. Amplifying Infection Prevention Self-Management Among Patients and People in the Community. J of Emer Nursing, 2020 Nov; 46(6): 727-730
Knighton SC, Zabarsky TF, Donskey CJ. Four moments for healthcare facility visitor hand hygiene. Am J Infect Control. 2020 Aug 16;. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2020.08.017. PubMed PMID: 32810567; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7428741.
Knighton SC, Richmond M, Zabarsky T, Dolansky M, Rai H, Donskey CJ. Patients' capability, opportunity, motivation, and perception of inpatient hand hygiene. Am J Infect Control. 2020 Feb;48(2):157-161. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2019.09.001. Epub 2019 Oct 29. PubMed PMID: 31672318; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6980874.
Education
Additional Information
Website
- Google Scholar
- National Minority Quality Forum
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
- Midwest Nursing Research Society
- Council on the Advancement for Nursing Science
- Prevention Saves Lives
Media Mentions and Interviews
- Shanina Knighton Joins APIC to Lead New IPC Research Center
- Minority Quality Forum 40 Under 40 Leaders in Health Awards 2019
- A Dynamic Duo: An Engineer and Nurse Collaborate in the Classroom and on Research Projects
- 3 Things to Do When You Get Sick With COVID…Again
- Less Hand Eczema in Healthcare Workers Who Receive Free Skin Care Products and Information
- Can Household Disinfectants Kill the Monkeypox Virus on Surfaces?
- Everything You Need To Know About Wearing Masks—Until The CDC Tells Us More
- Healthy Hospitality: Spread cheer not germs at your holiday gatherings