Title:  Associate Professor

School/Center:  School of Nursing

Office location:  106E Robinson Hall

Office hours (Spring 08): Wednesday, 1-2 PM

Phone:  617-373-5248

Fax:  617-373-8675

Email:  r.board@neu.edu

Education:  PhD, Ohio State University; MS, Ohio State University; BS, SUNY at Binghamton. Diploma, Crouse-Irving Memorial Hospital School of Nursing

Certification:  CCRN, Critical Care in Pediatrics

Specializations:  Pediatrics, Critical Care

Teaching:  Nursing with Acutely Ill Children & Families; Comprehensive Nursing Practicum; Caregiving: Children Across the Continuum

Research interests:  Dr. Board’s program of research is focused on investigating the effects of a pediatric critical care hospitalization on children and their families. Her work has moved from investigating parental stress to include a focus on understanding children’s stress in the pediatric intensive care unit and expansion from use of self-report to projective measures to inclusion of neuroendocrine measures. She has received research funding from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, American Nurses Foundation, John W. Alden Trust, and National Institute for Nursing Research.

Community engagaement:
Yvonne L. Munn Award review board, Massachusetts General Hospital

Research grant review panel, American Association of Critical-care Nurses 

Selected Publications: 

Board, R. (2005). School-age children’s perceptions of their PICU hospitalization. Pediatric Nursing, 31, 166-175.

Board, R. (2004). Father stress during a child's critical care hospitalization. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 18, 244-249.

Highlights of Faculty Research at the School of Nursing