Barbara Moran, PhD, CNM

School of Nursing

Assistant Professor

Telephone: 202-319-6463

E-Mail: moran@cua.edu

 

Education

PhD – University of Virginia

MS – University of Hawaii

MPH – University of Hawaii

BSN – Villanova University

Frontier School of Nurse Midwifery

 

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor

            The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.:  2005 to Present

Education Coordinator

            Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia:  1987-2000

Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner

            Kaiser Permanent, Springfield, Virginia:  1985-1987

Visiting Nurse Coordinator

            Visiting Nurse Service of Newport, Rhode Island:  1983-1984

OB/GYN Nurse Practitioner

            Kaiser Permanent, Honolulu, Hawaii:  1979-1983

Public Health Nurse

            Honolulu Community Action Program:  1976-1977

Public Health Nurse

            Fairfax County Health Department:  1973-1976

Staff Nurse (Med-Surgical Units)

Georgetown University Hospital, Carteret General Hospital, Suburban Hospital: 1970-1973

 

Professional Service

Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN):

• Board of Directors – 2003-2007
• Virginia Section Secretary/Treasurer – 1999-2002
• Principles and Practice Fetal Heart Monitoring Instructor – 1997-2000
• National Task Force for Competencies and Program Guidelines for Nurse Providers of Perinatal Education - 1993

Lamaze International:

            National Nominating Committee – 1996-1998

National Certifying Corporation (NCC)

               *Item Writer for National Certification Exam for OB/GYN Nurse Practitioner

 

Research Interest

Violence against women, particularly during pregnancy

 

Teaching Interest

Maternal Child Health

 

Selected Publications

McFarlane, J., Parker, B, Moran, B. (In press) Abuse During Pregnancy: Prevention and Intervention. 2nd ed. White Plains: March of Dimes Education Foundation.

 

Parker, B., Steeves, R., Anderson, S. & Moran, B. (2004).  “Uxoricide:  A phenomenological study of adult survivors.”  Issues in Mental Health Nursing.  Vol. 25, 133-145.

 

Moran, B. (2003).  Maternal Infection.  In Mattson & Smith (Eds.).   AWHONN’s Core Curriculum for Maternal-Newborn Nursing – 3^rd Ed.  W.B. Saunders:  Philadelphia.

 

Moran, B. (2003).  Maternal Substance Abuse.  In Mattson & Smith (Eds.).   AWHONN’s Core Curriculum for Maternal-Newborn Nursing – 3^rd Ed.  W.B. Saunders:  Philadelphia.

 

Selected Presentations

“The Childbirth Experience of Abused Women,”  Sigma Theta Tau International,  Hawaii, July 2005.

 

“Broken Lives:  The Impact of Domestic Violence Against Women and Children:   Abused Women, Their Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum Experience,”  Prince William Hospital Women’s Health Day, March, 2005.

 

“The Childbirth Experience of Abused Women,” Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International, Boston, October, 2004.

 

Selected Poster Presentations

“The Birth of Nurse Midwifery Education,” Southern Nursing Research Society, Louisville, February, 2004.

 

Assessment Tools for Measuring Intimate Partner Violence”, The National Academies of Practice & Interdisciplinary Health Care Team Conference, Crystal City, Virginia, May, 2003.

 

“Integrated Literature Review of Abuse in Women – 1997-2000,” Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International, Madison, WI, September 2001.

 

Awards and Honors:

Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Beta Kappa chapter, Research Dissemination Award

 

AWHONN Education Fellowship Award funded by Nursing Economics, 1993

 

Fellow in the America College of Childbirth Educators, 1993

 

Nurse of the Year, 1987, LAMAZE International, Washington, D.C. Area Chapter

 

Maternal Child Health Nurse of the Year, 1982, Hawaii Nurses Association