Lois A. Haggerty, PhD, RNC, WHNP

Office

Cushing Hall 202 J
617-552-3668
lois.haggerty@bc.edu

educational history

• PhD Boston College
• MS Boston College
• BSN Simmons College

recent publications

• Haggerty, L.A., & Grace, P. (in press). Clinical Wisdom: The essential foundation of “good” nursing care. Journal of
  Professional Nursing.
  
• Kearney, M.H., Haggerty, L.A., Munro, B.H., & Hawkins, J.W. (2003). Birth outcomes and maternal morbidity in
  abused pregnant women with public and private health insurance. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 35, 345-349.
  
• Hawkins, J.W., & Haggerty, L.A. (Eds). (2003). Diversity in Health Care Research: Strategies for Multisite, Multidisciplinary, and Multicultrual Projects. New York, NY: Springer.
  
• Haggerty, L. A., & Goodman, L. (2003). Stages of change-based nursing interventions for victims of interpersonal violence. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing, 32, 68-75.
  
• Haggerty, L. A., Kelly, U., Hawkins, J., Pearce, C., & Kearney, M.  (2001). Pregnant women’s perceptions of abuse. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 30, 283-290.
• D’Avolio, D., Pearce, C. W. Hawkins, J. W., Haggerty, L. A., Kelly, U., & Aber, C. S. (2001). Screening for abuse: Barriers and opportunities. Health Care for Women International, 22, 349-362.
• Haggerty, L. A., & Nuttall, R. L. (2000). Experienced obstetrical nurses’ decision-making in fetal risk situations. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 29, 480-490.
• Haggerty, L. A., & Hawkins, J. (2000). Informed consent and the limits of confidentiality. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 22, 508 – 514.

international presentations

• Grace, P. & Haggerty, L.A. (2007, September). Clinical wisdom: Approximating the ends of the good for the individual and the common good. Paper presentation at the International Philosophy of Nursing Society. Dundee Scotland.
• Haggerty, L.A. (2003, April). Factors influencing experienced  nurses’ perceptions of fetal stress. Paper presented at the
  Royal College of Nursing and Midwifery International Research Conference, Manchester, U.K.
• Haggerty, L.A., Hawkins, J., & Kearney, M. (2000, June). Screening for abuse during pregnancy: A missed opportunity. Paper presented at the Nursing Network on Violence Against Women Annual Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
  
  

Dr. Lois A.Haggerty (BSN, Simmons College, MS, Boston College, PhD, Boston College) has been a member of the BCSON faculty since 1977. Her research publications have focused on the clinical decision-making of experienced and expert intrapartal nurses in fetal risk situations, and on various issues concerning women who are victims of interpersonal violence. Dr. Haggerty is involved in the Maternal-Child Health Department’s collaborative study of the impact of violence during pregnancy and has presented at National and International conferences on this topic. She also volunteers as a victim advocate in the community domestic violence victim assistant program in Concord, Ma. A women’s health nurse practitioner, Dr. Haggerty co-teaches the women’s health advanced practice class with Dr. Joellen Hawkins and is active in women’s health clinical practice. She has served as program director for the Master’s Entry into Nursing Program since its inception in September, 1999.

research interests

Clinical judgment of expert nurses; intimate partner violence during the childbearing year.

appointments & awards

• President, Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society Alpha Chi Chapter