Joellen W. Hawkins, RN, PhD, WHNP-BC, FAAN, FAANP has been a women's health nurse practitioner since 1969 and is Professor Emerita, William F. Connell School of Nursing, Boston College where from 1983 to 2007 she was the coordinator of the women's health nurse practitioner program, teaching clinical and theory courses for that program, as well as the advanced practice role course. Currently, she is Writer in Residence at Simmons College, Department of Nursing, Boston. For 30 years, she practiced as a WHNP in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Her research includes abuse during pregnancy; screening for abuse, coalition building to address violence in a community, and historical work on individual nurses, advanced practice nursing, and women's health nurse practitioners. She is the Chief Nursing Consultant for Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary T-22. She is the author or editor of 36 books and more than 100 articles in professional journals.
Diane M. Roberto-Nichols, BS, APRN-C, has practiced as an OB/GYN nurse practitioner for more than 30 years. She practices at the University of Connecticut Student Health Services (Storrs) and Ellington OB/GYN Associates in Ellington, CT. Her practice focus has been women's health, starting as coordinator of the Women's Health Clinic at the University of Connecticut (Storrs), where she was instrumental in making contraception and confidential health care available to female students. She also co-developed a protocol and implemented an assault crisis center for sexually and physically abused students at the University, as well as co-authored the protocols that served as the prototype for this book. She continues to provide education and health care to women throughout the life span.
J. Lynn Stanley-Haney, MA, APRN-C, is an Adult Medicine nurse practitioner with special practice areas in Gynecology and Psychiatry. Her current practice includes Ellington OB/GYN Associates (Ellington, CT), Eastern Connecticut State University Counseling and Psychological Services (Willimantic, CT) and Private Practice in Psychotherapy and Psychotherapeutic Medication Management. Since certification in 1980, she has pursued advocacy in women's health and access to care. As the Director of Nursing for the University of Connecticut Student Health Services (1978 - 1993), she worked with their Women's Health Clinic in assuring quality of care and also provided direct care to students. Along with her long time colleague and co-author Diane Roberto-Nichols, she co-developed and implemented a 24-hour sexual assault crisis service for physically abused and sexually assaulted women students as well as co-authored the protocols that served as the prototype for this book. Since leaving the university, she has worked to implement and manage, as well as practice clinically in state funded school-based health services.