Laurel A. Eisenhauer, PhD, RN, FAAN

educational history

• PhD Boston College
• MSN Univeristy of Pennsylvania
• BS Boston College
• Certificate Boston College

recent publications

• Eisenhauer, L.A, Hurley, A., & Dolan, N. (2007). Nurses' Reported Thinking During Medication Administration.  Journal of Nursing Scholarship. 39 (1), 82–87.
  
• Eisenhauer, LA & Bleich, M. (2006). The Clinical Doctorate: Whoa or Go? Journal of Nursing Education.
• Eisenhauer, L.A. (2006)  Pharmacology and Older Adults. In P. Tabloski. (Ed.). Gerontological Nursing. NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Eisenhauer, L. A. (2002). Adverse drug reactions: A concern for clinicians and patients.  Clinical  Excellence for Nurse Practitioners, 6(2): 3 -7.
• Orb, A, Eisenhauer, L. A., & Wynden, D. (2001). Ethics in qualitative research. Journal of Nursing Scholarship. 33(1): 93-96. * Received Sigma Theta Tau Best of Journal of Nursing Scholarship Award

Laurel Eisenhauer holds two degrees from Boston College and a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.  She began teaching at Boston College in 1970 after teaching at Villanova University. She has two major areas of focus- curriculum in nursing and nursing and drug therapy. She is the author of seven books on pharmacology and nursing. She has served as Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and other leadership positions in the School of Nursing. Her research and scholarship has focused on drug therapy, therapeutics and decision making in nursing, and issues in nursing.  Two of her articles have won two awards from Sigma Theta Tau International. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Nursing Education and serves as a manuscript reviewer for several nursing journals.

research interests

Therapeutic decision making and nursing intervention; drug therapy and nursing role; nurse and consumer decision making and problem solving; decision styles; role conflict and role ambiguity