She has held senior policy analyst positions in the federal government and in New York, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow during 1992-93. Dr. Sochalski has extensive experience in health care financing and health policy in both the public and private sectors. Currently she is principal investigator on an NIH-funded study examining the cost and quality outcomes of a nurse- managed geriatric day hospital, and is co-principal investigator on two NIH-funded studies assessing the impact of hospital nurse staffing on patient outcomes in the U.S., Canada, England, Scotland and Germany.