Carrie MacLeod, PhD (c), RN

Office

Cushing Hall 303
617-552-0198
carrie.macleod.1@bc.edu

educational history

• PhD(c) Boston College
• MS  Boston College
• BS St Anselm College

recent publications

• Mahoney, E., Trudeau, S., Penyack, S., MacLeod, C. (2005). Challenges to intervention implementation: Lessons learned in the Bathing persons with Alzheimer’s disease at home study. Nursing Research (55),2, 10-16.
• North Shore Medical Center Procedures and Protocols (co-author, 2004)
• Lahey Clinic Procedures and Protocols (co-author, 1998): standardized protocols for all midlevel providers hired by the Cardiothoracic Department
• “Before and After Heart Surgery at Lahey Clinic” (co-author, 1999): discharge pamphlet for all patients undergoing open heart surgery

Carrie has worked as a nurse practitioner in major teaching institutions in the northeast with a focus on critical care and cardiac surgery. She also has experience as a clinical instructor and lecturer to undergraduate students. Currently she is completing her doctoral work at the William F. Connell School of Nursing, Boston College.
 
Carrie's current research interests and dissertational work focuses on family caregivers and their experiences with the postoperative open heart surgery patient. As a University fellow at Boston College she has been fortunate to work with Dr. Ellen Mahoney on her work, funded by an RO1 grant, with spousal caregivers and their spouses with Alzheimer's disease.

research interests

Family caregiving; cardiac surgery

appointments & awards

• Outstanding Doctoral Student Poster Presentation, Third Place, 19th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society