Colleen Simonelli, RN, MS, PhD(c)

Office

Cushing Hall 334 E
617-552-4926
colleen.simonelli.1@bc.edu

educational history

• PhD(c) - University of Massachusetts Lowell
  
• MA - Boston College
  
• BS - Marquette University

recent publications

• Wolfe, BE &  Simonelli, MC. (in press). Eating disorders in pregnancy. In PJ Hillard (Ed.), The 5-minute OB/GYN Clinical Consult. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
  
• Kearney, M.H. & Simonelli, M.C. (2006). Intervention fidelity: Lessons learned from an unsuccessful pilot study. Applied Nursing Research, 19, 163-166.
  
  

I am a full-time clinical assistant professor for Boston College’s Connell School of Nursing. Currently I am the TOR for NU 245 and NU 244 and as such I coordinate the undergraduate Childbearing Nursing Clinical Laboratory and lecture for the Childbearing theory course. Additionally in the spring, I will coordinate clinical placements for NU 407 Childbearing clinical and lecture the Master’s Entry students for the Childbearing curriculum of NU 406.

I have been an MCH nurse for 22 years. The majority of my experience has been in high-risk labor and delivery. I have been teaching clinical Obstetrical and Pediatric Nursing to undergraduate and graduate students since 1989. I have held part-time appointments with UMASS Boston, MGH’s IHP, Regis College and Boston College prior to joining BC’s full-time faculty in 2001.

My undergraduate studies were at Marquette University where I received a BS in nursing, I obtained my MS from Boston College in their CNS – acute care Pediatric program and am currently enrolled in the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s doctoral program in Nursing.  My coursework was completed in December of 2004 and I have been actively working on my dissertation, the focus of which is, preventing smoking relapse in postpartum women. In July of 2007 I completed data collection for this prospective, longitudinal, survey research and have begun the process of data analysis.

I live in Holliston, Massachusetts with my husband Joe, three children, Elizabeth, Michael, and Matthew and our Golden Retriever Montana.

appointments & awards

• Outstanding Graduate Student Award University of Massachusetts Lowell May 2004
• Graduate Student Research Day Award - Relapse: A Concept Analysis,  May 2004
• Promise of Nurse Educators Scholarship National League of Nursing June 2003-June 2005