Connell School of Nursing

Jane M. Flanagan, PhD, APRN, BC

assistant professor; adult health

jane flanagan

Office

Cushing Hall 310
617-552-8949
jane.flanagan.1@bc.edu




educational history

  • Nursing Fellowship in Oncology Nursing - Massachusetts General Hospital
  • PhD - Boston College
  • MS - Northeastern University
  • BS - University of Lowell


recent publications

Articles

  • Flanagan, J. (2007). Patient and Nurse Experiences of Theory – Based Nursing Care in a Pre-Surgical Clinic. Nursing Science Quarterly.
  • Abdallah, L., Remington, R., Devereaux Melillo, K. and Flanagan, J., (Accepted for publication).  Nursing Management of the Nursing Home Patient on Antipsychotic Medications. Nursing 2007.
  • Flanagan, J. and Jones, D. (2007) Nursing language in a time of change. International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classifications.
  • Flanagan, J., Devereaux Melillo, K., Abdallah, L., and Remington, R. (2007). Interpreting laboratory values in the rehabilitation setting. Rehabilitation Nursing, 32(2), 77-84.
  • Remington, R., Abdallah, L., Devereaux Melillo, K. and Flanagan, J., (2006). Managing Problem Behaviors in the Nursing Home. Rehabilitation Nursing.
  • Bolse, K., Hamilton G., Flanagan J., Carroll, D.L., & Fridlund B. (2005). Ways of experiencing the life situation among United States patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: a qualitative study. Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing Winter; 20(1):4-10.
  • Flanagan, J. (2005). Nursing Theory: Linking the CNS Role to Innovations in Practice. (Conference Abstracts: 2005 NACNS National Conference: March 9–12, 2005, Orlando, Fla) Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc. Volume 19(2), p 73.
  • Flanagan, J., & Jones, D. (2003). Patient Responses to the fast tracking experience: preliminary data analysis. Proceedings of the 15th NANDA Conference.

Book Chapters

  • Flanagan, J., & Neves, J. (In Press).  In: Buttaro, T., Trybulski, J., Bailey, P. and Sandberg-Cook, J. (Eds). Primary Care: A Collaborative Practice Pre-surgical Clearance. Mo: Mosby.
  • Flanagan, J., (2006). The nursing theory and practice link: Creating a healing environment within the pre- admission nursing practice environment. In: Roy, C. and Jones, D. (Eds.). Nursing Knowledge Development and Clinical Practice.
  • Flanagan, J., (2005).  Creating a Healing Environment for Staff and Patients in a Pre-Surgery Clinic.  In: Picard, C. & Jones, D. (Eds.). Giving Voice to What We Know: Margaret Newman's Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness in Nursing Practice, Research and Education.  Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.
  • Jones, D., & Flanagan, J. (2004) Evaluation of the advanced practice nurse: Cost, efficiency, accomplishments, trends, and future development.  In: Joel, L. (Ed.). Advanced Practice Nursing: Essentials for Role Development.  PA: F.A. Davis.
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  • McGowan, C. (2003).  Pre-Anesthetic Evaluation.  In: Buttaro, T., Trybulski, J., Bailey, P. and Sandberg-Cook, J. (Eds). Primary Care: A Collaborative Practice (2003). Mo: Mosby.

international presentations

  • Jones, D., Duffy, M., Herdman, H. Flanagan, J., and Foster, F. Nursing Communication and Standardized Documentation: Continued Refinement of the Functional Health Pattern Assessment Screening Tool (FHPAST). ACENDIO Conference 2007, Amsterdam, April, 2007.
  • Flanagan, J. Creative expression as a process of healing from surgery, growth and discovery. The International Association of Human Caring. Montreal, Canada.  June, 2004.
  • Flanagan, J., Jones, D., Braccio, J., Slicis, D., O’Neil, J., and Fairchild, N. A study on patient responses to the fast tracking experience. Ascendio, Paris, France. March 2003.



 

Dr. Jane Flanagan was the first Carol Ghiloni Nursing Faculty Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2004 and is currently an Associate Clinical Scientists at the Phyllis Cantor Center at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. She is certified from the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a nurse practitioner and maintains a clinical practice at MGH in the General Clinical Research Unit.


research interests

Patient and family experiences during and after hospitalization; the integration of nursing theory and aesthetics into nursing care, sprituality and forgiveness in relation to healing; palliative care


appointments & awards

  • 2007 - Princeton Premier
  • Guest Editor – Winter Edition (2007) of International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classification
  • Assistant Editor – 2007 International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classification
  • 2007 - Cambridge’s Who’s Who Executive Women in Healthcare
  • 2007 - American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Scholarship Award
  • 2006 - Boston Works Nurse of the Year Nominee
  • 2006 - Madison’s Who’s Who of Healthcare Professionals
  • 2005 - Academic Keys Who's Who in Health Sciences Higher Education