Connell School of Nursing

Jane M. Flanagan, PhD, ANP-BC

assistant professor; adult health

jane flanagan

Office

Cushing Hall 336I
617-552-8949
jane.flanagan.1@bc.edu




educational history

  • PhD - Boston College
  • MS - Northeastern University
  • BS - University of Lowell


recent publications

Articles

  • Flanagan, J., Carroll, D. & Hamilton, G. (in press) The long-term lived experience of patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators. Med-Surg Nursing. Accepted for 2010.
  • Flanagan, J. i2009). Post operative phone calls -- Timing is everything. American Perioperative Registered Nurse Journal (AORN), 90(1), 41-51.
  • Flanagan, J. (2009). Patient and Nurse Experiences of Theory – Based Nursing Care in a Pre-Surgical Clinic. Nursing Science Quarterly, 22(2), 160-172.
  • Flanagan, J. and Jones, D. (2009). High frequency nursing diagnoses following same day knee arthroscopy. International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classifications, 20(2), 89-96.
  • Abdallah, L., Remington, R., Devereaux Melillo, K. and Flanagan, J., (2008). Nursing Management of the Nursing Home Patient on Antipsychotic Medications. Nursing. 38(10), 28-31.
  • 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.

Book Chapters

  • Flanagan, J. & Jones, D. (2009) Evaluation of the Advanced Practice Nurse: Cost Efficiency, Accomplishment, Trends and Future Development. In Joel, L. (Ed.). Advanced Practice Nurses: Essentials for Role Development. PA: F.A. Davis.
  • Flanagan, J. (2008). Ethical Issues for Advanced Practice Nurses: Caring for the Adult Health Population. In Grace, P. Nursing Ethics & Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice. MA Boston: Jones & Bartlett.
  • Flanagan, J., & Neves, J. (2008). Pre Surgical Clearance 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.


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.


 

Dr. Jane Flanagan is a faculty associate scientist at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Yvonne Munn Center and associate clinical scientist 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 continues to maintains a clinical practice as a nurse practitioner at MGH in the Clinical Research Center.


research interests

Patient and family experiences of chronic illness; the integration of nursing theory and aesthetics into nursing care; spirituality, forgiveness and healing


appointments & awards

  • 2009-present - Reviewer, Journal of Nursing and Healthcare of Chronic Illness
  • 2007-present - Associate Editor, International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classification
  • 2007 - Guest Editor, International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classification (winter issue)
  • 2007 - American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Scholarship Award
  • 2005 - Oncology Nursing Faculty Fellowship, MGH, Boston, MA