Margaret Saul Laccetti, PhD, RN, AOCN
assistant professor - adult health
Office
Cushing Hall 423
617-552-1877
laccetti@bc.edu
educational history
- PhD - University of Massachusetts, Amherst & Worcester
- MSN - Salem State College
- BSN - Columbia University
- BA - SUNY at Albany
recent publications
- Laccetti, M. (2007). Expressive Writing in Women with Advanced Breast Cancer. Oncology Nursing Forum, 34(5), 1019-1024.
- Laccetti, M. & Vessey, J. A. (2007). When a School-Aged Child’s Parent Has Cancer. Journal for Specialist in Pediatric Nursing, 12(4), 297-299.
- Bauer-Wu, S., Liu, Q., Hseih, C-c., Laccetti, M., Healey, M., Ahles, T., Winer, E., Habin, K. (2003). Effects on Symptoms, Adjustment, and Quality of Life Three Months Later. [Abstract] Presentation, Cancer Nursing Research Conference, San Diego, CA February.
- Bauer-Wu, S., Liu, Q., Hseih, C-c., Laccetti, M., Healey, M., Ahles, T., Winer, E., Habin, K. (2003). Expressive Writing for Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients: effects on Symptoms, Adjustment and Quality of Life [Abstract] Proceedings of the Eastern Nursing Research Society, Yale March 2003.
- Laccetti, M. S., & Kazinowski, M. (2002). Pain. Slack Inc.: Thorofare, NJ.
Margaret Laccetti is an Oncology clinical nurse specialist,
with a strong practice interest in adults with breast, prostate and lymphatic
cancers. Dr. Laccetti earned her PhD in nursing, focusing on quality of
life in cancer patients, in 2003 from UMass Worcester/Amherst. Her dissertation
explored the use of language patterns as they reflected or impacted quality
of life. She teaches Adult Growth and Development, and acute care adult
health content. Her research interests include investigation and use of
expressive writing and language use with selected groups of cancer patients;
use of expressive writing with stage 4 breast cancer patients, and how choices
of language (or words) reflect experiences with the disease; quality of
life in cancer patients and families; the nursing needs of spouses of prostate
cancer patients; intuition and nursing. Dr. Laccetti is a member of the
Oncology Nursing Society and the International Psycho-Oncology Society.
research interests
Investigation and use of expressive writing and language use in selected groups of cancer patients and their families; use of expressive writing with stage 4 breast cancer patients, and how choices of language (or word use) reflect experiences with the disease and quality of life; quality of life in cancer patients and families; using and examining the processes of expressive writing and cognitive restructuring to enhance quality of life and change behaviors in patients and families facing terminal illness; the nursing needs of spouses of patients with prostate cancer; intuition and nursing; and investigating and using the Amherst writing model to explore self silencing and facilitate advocacy behaviors in nursing students and new nurses.
appointments & awards
- 2007 Hartford Institute Scholar, summer 2007; New York University
- 2005 Massachusetts General Hospital Ghiloni Oncology Faculty Fellowship
- 2005 Boston College. REG submitted March ‘05, approved May 11, ‘05: Eliciting information about the experiences of women living with a spouse with prostate cancer.
- 2003 American Journal of Nursing Medical Surgical Book of the Year: Pain (with Mary Kazinowski, RN, Ph.D.) February 2002. Slack Inc.: Thorofare, NJ
