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Rebecca Koeniger-Donohue, Ph.D., ANP-BC.

Associate Professor of Nursing
B.S.N., St Anselm's College
M.S.N. Boston University
Ph.D. University of Rhode Island

Dr. Donohue is recognized widely for her breadth and depth of knowledge in the primary care of women. Dr. Donohue received her nurse practitioner certificate in adult health from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1980. She received her master's degree from Boston University in 1987, and published her thesis work, "Patient Care Classification Systems" in the Journal of Home Care. In 1995, Dr. Donohue completed her Ph.D in nursing at the University of Rhode Island. Her most recent publication, in the Journal of Clinical Nursing, September 2003, "Nurse Practitioner-Client Interaction as Resource Exchange in a Women's Health Clinic", exemplifies her interest in empirical work that provides clear linkages between nursing practice, applied theory in nursing, and nursing research. Because of Dr. Donohue's expertise in qualitative research and women's health, the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Nursing, an international journal based in the United Kingdom, invited Dr. Donohue to join the editorial review board.

Dr. Donohue's textbook, Women's Health Case Studies, published by Appleton & Lange, is used extensively in the United States and Canada to prepare women's health nurse practitioners for the National Certification Exam. Dr. Donohue has worked as an advanced practice nurse while pursuing ongoing educational and research opportunities for over 25 years. She taught undergraduate students at Boston University prior to joining the faculty at Simmons College, where she teaches at all levels of the program, though primarily at the graduate level. Her NP clinical practice for the last several years at Simmons College Health Center resulted in her writing and editing a new textbook for advanced practice nurses in college health. Dr. Donohue is also investigating the use of personal digital assistants at Simmons College nursing programs, specifically as a resource tool for bringing evidence-based practice to enhance client encounters.

Publications

  • Pfeiffer, K. & Koeniger-Donohue, R. (2008). The DNP: Why or why not ? Journal of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health. In review.
  • Donohue, R. K. (2008). Handheld Computers in Nursing Education. Journal of Nursing Education. 47 (2), 74-77.
  • Gaumer, G. & Koeniger-Donohue, R. (2007). The use of informatics by APRNs. Computers, Informatics and Nursing. November/December, 25(6), 344-353.
  • Donohue. R. (2007). Nurse Practitioner-Client Interaction as Resource Exchange: The Nurse's View. The Journal of Clinical Nursing,16(6), 1050-1060.
  • Donohue, R. & Bisbee, S. (2007). Optimizing Clinical Use of Handheld Technology: PDAs for APRNs. American Journal of Nurse Practitioners, 11(5), 22-34.
  • Donohue (2006). The FemCap®: A new non hormonal contraceptive. Annual Primary Care Edition of The Women's Health Care Journal, 5, (4), 79-90.
  • Donohue, R (2003) Journal of Clinical Nursing. An exploratory study of client- nurse practitioner encounters as resource exchange in a women's health clinic, The Journal of Clinical Nursing,12, 726-735.