Holly B. Fontenot, RN, MS, WHNP-BC

Office

Cushing Hall 418
617-552-1846
holly.fontenot@bc.edu

educational history

• MS Boston College
• BSN Georgia Baptist College of Nursing/Mercer University
  

recent publications

• Hawkins, J., Fontenot, H., & Harris, A. (in press). Fertility control: Chapter 16. In C. Fogel & N.F. Woods (Authors/ Eds.), Women’s health care in advanced practice. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
• Fontenot, H., Fantasia, H., & Allen, J.D. (2007). HPV in Adolescents: Making the Wake-Up Call.  Advance For Nurse Practitioners, 15(10), 73-76.
• Fontenot, H., & Harris, A. (in press).  Latest advances in hormonal contraception. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing.
  
• Fontenot, H. (2007). Transition and adaptation to adoptive motherhood. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing 36, 175-182.
• Hawkins, J., & Fontenot, H. (in press). Cognitive Dissonance in Faculty Roles: Lots of Questions, Few Answers. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.
  
• Fontenot, H. (2006). Reflections on caring: The art of nursing.  ADVANCE for Nurses, 6 (1), 12.

Holly has been full time faculty member at Boston College since fall of 2005 after being a part time member since winter of 2004. In June of 2007 she assumed the role of director of the women’s health nurse practitioner (WHNP) program. She is a certified women’s health nurse practitioner and teaches advanced practice in women’s health nursing. She has also taught undergraduate and master’s entry maternity nursing clinical practicums, as well as given guest lectures in the master’s program maternal child theory and health assessment. Holly is also employed as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as a per diem NP in the Boston College student health services. Other practice experience includes working as a WHNP in two different OB/GYN private practices, as well as numerous years as a labor and delivery and high risk antepartum nurse. She is a co-investigator in research including work on cervical cancer, cognitive dissonance, and oral histories of early women’s health nurse practitioners. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International, AWHONN, MCNP, NONPF, and the IAFN.

clinical interests

Women's Health, sexual health and safety, forensic nursing.