Boston College School of Nursing Faculty Member Wins in Nurse Researcher Category

Holly is full time faculty member in the School of Nursing at Boston College and the coordinator of the Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Program. She teaches advanced practice nursing in women’s health, advanced practice role, theoretical foundations for women’s health and pediatric nurses, and forensic nursing. She is also part time volunteer Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP) at a community health center as a way to maintain clinical practice and precept graduate nursing students in this role.

She has been in the profession for 15 years; over the past five years, she has had 7 research and 17 clinical publications in both nursing and medical journals. She has also co- authored one book chapter.

Holly has maintained a successful Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP) program and is integral to the development of the Forensic Nursing Program (FN) at BC. She has coordinated the Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP) program for the past 5 years, and maintained a 100% WHNP boards pass rate for the entire time. As the assistant coordinator of FN program, which began in 2008, she helped obtain funding, developed curriculum, recruited students, and built community connections to facilitate learning.