Leslie Neal-Boylan, PhD, RN, CRRN, APRN-BC

• Associate Professor

Yale School of Nursing - Rm 287
100 Church Street South
P. O. Box 9740
New Haven, CT 06536
USA

leslie.neal-boylan@yale.edu

203.785.3337
203.785.6455 fax

About

Leslie Neal-Boylan, PhD, RN, CRRN, APRN-BC is a certified family nurse practitioner, rehabilitation nurse, and home health nurse. Dr. Neal-Boylan graduated with a BSN from Rutgers University in 1981. She earned her master's of science degree in nursing from San Jose State University in 1992 and her PhD in nursing from George Mason University in 1998. Her areas of scholarly work include home health, rehabilitation, chronic illness, and gerontology. Dr. Neal-Boylan has conducted several small research studies using private grants and was a co investigator and consultant on a grant to study home health nurse satisfaction and retention from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She serves as a qualitative research consultant for the Muskie Institute in Portland, Maine and as a home health consultant for the University of Urbino in Urbino, Italy. Since her development of the Neal Theory of Home Health Nursing Practice, she has received inquiries from all over the United States and the world regarding the theory and it is often cited in the literature. Dr. Neal-Boylan has published more than 90 articles and chapters in peer-reviewed journals and has published 4 books, including one that won the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award. In addition to other honors, she was named a distinguished nursing alumna from George Mason University and a Virginia Nurse Pioneer. Her current research relates to registered nurses with physical disabilities.

Research interests

Home health, Chronic illness, Gerontology, Rehabilitation

Research

2007, RNs with disabilities: The lived experience

2006, What Home Health Nurses are Saying About their Jobs

2000, Public Awareness of Home Health Care

2000, OASIS and Inter-rater reliability

1998, The Neal Theory: Validating and Refining the theory

1998, Doctoral Dissertation: Toward A Theory of Home Health Nursing Practice

1992, Master's Thesis: The Coping Ability of Military Parents of Disabled Children

Clinical practice

Hill Health Center - Internal Medicine

Selected Presentations

RNs with physical disabilities: The lived experience, Association of Rehabilitation Nurses annual conference, October 6, 2007.

RNs with Physical Disabilities in the Workplace, American Nurses Association-Maine Chapter, March 8, 2007.

The Neal Theory of Home Health Nursing Practice, University of Urbino doctoral students in economics, statistics, and social work, Urbino, Italy, July 2006.

The Elder Interview, poster, Drexel University Nursing Education Institute, Providence, RI, June 2006

Advanced Practice Nurses, Northeast Advisors for the Northeast conference, Portland, ME, April 2006

Satisfaction and Retention of Home Healthcare Nurses, National Association of Home Care Conference for Home Health Agency directors, March 2004.

Elder RNs, Sigma Theta Tau, Old Dominion University Chapter, October 20, 2003, Norfolk, VA

Co-presented Hip fracture consensus conference report with Karen Faler, RN, ONC to National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses, May 21, 2002, Las Vegas, NV

Selected awards and honors

American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award, medical-surgical nursing category, 2005

Member of America's Registry of Outstanding Professionals, 2002

George Mason University Distinguished Alumni Award, 2001

“I love being a nurse. I have practiced in a variety of nursing specialties and have benefited from learning from each of them. I consider myself a lifelong learner and enjoy learning from my experiences, my colleagues, and my students. My goals as an educator are to impart my enthusiasm for nursing and to foster the development of expert advanced practice nurses.”

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