Joellen W Hawkins

Joellen W. Hawkins, RNC, PhD, FAAN, has been a women's health nurse practitioner since 1969 and is Professor Emeriti, William F. Connell School of Nursing, Boston College (2008). She is Writer in Residence at Simmons College, Department of Nursing, Boston. She has done extensive research on abuse during pregnancy, coalition building to address violence in a community, and historical work on individual nurses, advanced practice nursing, and women's health nurse practitioners. From 2005-2009, she...See more

Joellen W. Hawkins, RNC, PhD, FAAN, has been a women's health nurse practitioner since 1969 and is Professor Emeriti, William F. Connell School of Nursing, Boston College (2008). She is Writer in Residence at Simmons College, Department of Nursing, Boston. She has done extensive research on abuse during pregnancy, coalition building to address violence in a community, and historical work on individual nurses, advanced practice nursing, and women's health nurse practitioners. From 2005-2009, she was the nursing editor of Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary and currently serves as the Appendix Consultant for that publication. She is the author or editor of 34 books and more than 100 articles in professional journals. See less