Valerie Ann McKeon
Professor

Education:
Ph.D. in Education - Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1986
M.S. in Maternal-Child Nursing - Boston University, Boston, MA, 1969
B.S. in Nursing - Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH, 1967

Teaching Experience:

• Professor, Saint Anselm College, 9/95 to present
• Associate Professor, Saint Anselm College, 9/89-9/95
• Clinical faculty, Freshman Year Team, New Hampshire Technical Institute, Fall, 1992
• Assistant Professor, Saint Anselm College, 9/79-9/89
• Associate Professor, Adjunct faculty, New Hampshire Vocational-Technical College, Manchester, NH, 9/82-6/83 Instructor, Saint Anselm College, 9/76-9/79
• Instructor, Practical Nursing Program, Waltham Vocational School, Waltham, MA, 9/749176
• Instructor, Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing, Boston, MA, 9/71-3/72
• Instructor, Northeastern University, 6169-6171
• Instructor, Practical Nursing Program, Boston Lying-in Hospital, 9/67-9/68

Related Professional Experience:

• Clinical Development Advisory Board - "Hormone Replacement Therapy, New Thinking, New Choices" Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc., 10/6/99
• Item Writer for ACT PEP Regents College Examination in Maternal-Child Nursing, baccalaureate level, 1997
• Staff nurse in Maternity, Southern NH Regional Medical Center, Nashua, NH; Olsten Kimberly Quality Care, Manchester, NH; Elliot Home Care, Manchester, NH; Catholic Medical Center, Manchester, NH; Boston Lying-in Hospital, Boston, MA; Albert Einstein Hospital, Bronx, NY, Saint Francis Hospital, Hartford, CT.
• Childbirth Educator, Lahey Hitchcock Clinic, Manchester, NH, 1/95 to present; Childbirth Preparation Associates, Inc., Manchester, NH, 1/87-1/95; Boston Lying-in Hospital, Boston, MA, 4172-4174
• School Nurse, Saint Anselm College, 9/64-6/65

Teaching and Academic Responsibilities at Saint Anselm College

• Junior Year Team, Parent-Child Nursing, 9/93- present
• Principal faculty member, Foundations of Nursing I & 11, 9/90-6/93
• Coordinator, RN/BSN and Career Change Programs, 8/89-9/93
• Coordinator, Senior Year Team, 9/80-1/84
• Senior Year Team, Parent-Child Nursing, 9/76-8/89

Professional Development:

• "AACN/Helene Fund Faculty Development Workshop in Community-Based Undergraduate Education" - Long Beach, CA, 6/17-9/99
• "Labor Support & Infant Bonding" - Saint Anselm College, 5/20/99
• "Understanding Managed Care" - CME Resource, 4/14/99
• HIV Counseling & Testing in the Pregnant Woman" - Holy Family Hospital, 4/13/99
• "Women's Health" - CME Resource, 3/22/99
• "Perinatal Nursing" - Contemporary Forums, 3/18-20/99
• "Expanded Newborn Screening in Massachusetts" - 3/9/99
• "Maternity Nursing 11" - Educational Software Concepts, Inc., 1/25/99
• "Management of Methadone Mothers & Babies, Southern NH Medical Center, 12/16/98
• "Demystifying Managed Care" - Sigma Theta Tau, 11 /5/98
• "Promoting, Protecting & Supporting Breast Feeding" - DHHS/WIC, 4/29/98
• "Varicella in Pregnancy" - Holy Family Hospital, Methuen, MA, 2/10/98
• "Newborn Hearing Screening" - Holy Family Hospital, Methuen, MA, 2/5/1998
• "Drugs in Lactation" - 10/ 16/99
• "Nursing Management of Labor" - 7/1/97
• "Medical Management in Pregnancy" - Brigham & Women's Hospital, 6/4/97
• "HIV in Women" - Brigham & Women's, 6/4/97
• "Remember How to Laugh and Play" - Brigham & Women's, 6/4/97
• "Heart Disease in Women" - Brigham & Women's, 6/4/97
• "Towards Excellence in Teaching" - Dartmouth/Saint Anselm College, 5/28-5/29/97
• "Alternative Therapies" - Saint Anselm College, 5/15/97
• "is the Baby Sick?" - Brigham & Women's, 6/4/97
• "Advanced Breastfeeding Management" - Boston Association for Childbirth Education, Winchester, MA, 4/4, 4/13, 4/27/96
• "Protecting, Protecting and Supporting Breastfeeding" - WIC, 4/30/96
• "Fundamentals of Breastfeeding Management" - Boston Association for Childbirth Education, Winchester, MA, 2/17, 3/2, 3/16, 3/30/96
• "OSHA: Safety, Infection Control, Customer Service" Optima VNA, 12/l/95
• "Women's Health: Shared Concerns" - CME Resource, 1] /24/95
• "Newborn Hyperbilirubinemia" - AWHONN Convention, 6/5/95
• "New Developments in Women's Health Research" - AWHONN, 6/5/95
• "Postpartum Education" - AWHONN, 6/5/95
• "Research Utilization for Second Stage Labor" - AWHONN, 6/5,95
• "Another Look at PIH & HELP Syndrome" - AWHONN, 6/4/95
• "Breast Health Trends" - AWHONN, 6/4/95
• "Antiphospholipid Syndrome" - AWHONN, 6/4/95
• "Caring for the Drug/Alcohol Exposed Newborn" - Saint Anselm College, 3/31/95
• "The Art of Labor Support" - Maine AWHONN, 3/21/95
• "Successful Breastfeeding at Home" - Saint Anselm College, 4/19/95
• "Selected Complications of Pregnancy" - Saint Anselm College, 5/16/95
• "Placental Blood Banking" - Holy Family Hospital, 4/11/95
• "Respiratory Distress Syndrome" - Holy Family Hospital, 3/14/95
• "Towards Research-Based Practice" - Dartmouth/Saint Anselm College, 5/12/95
• "Towards Excellence in Teaching"- Saint Anselm College, 5/25/95

Scholarship:

• McKeon, Valerie A. "The Breast Cancer Prevention Trial: Should Women at Risk Take Tamoxifen?" AWHONN Lifelines 2 (October, 1998).
• McKeon, Valerie A & O'Reilly, Maureen. "Nursing Management of Second Stage Labor," The Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing 4 (July, 1997).
• McKeon, Valerie A. "The Breast Cancer Prevention Trial: Evaluating Tamoxifen's Efficacy in Preventing Breast Cancer," Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing 26 (January, 1997): 79-90.
• McKeon, Valerie A. "Hormone Replacement Therapy: Evaluating the Risks and Benefits," Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing 23 (October, 1994): 647-657.
• McKeon, Valerie A  "Management of Premature Rupture of Membranes," International Journal of Childbirth Education 6 (February, 1991): 14-6.
• McKeon, Valerie A "Estrogen Replacement Therapy: Current Guidelines for Education and Counseling," Journal of Gerontological Nursing 16 (October, 1990): 6-11.
• Lynch, Martha H. & Valerie A. McKeon. "Cocaine Use in Pregnancy: Research Findings and Clinical implications," Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing 19 (July, 1990): 285-92.
• McKeon, Valerie A. "Lavinia Lloyd Dock: Innovator and Social Reformer," Nursing News 40 (April, 1990): 9-10.
• McKeon, Valerie A & Maureen O'Reilly. "Maternal Serum Alpha-Fetoprotein Screening to Detect Fetal Disorders," International Journal of Childbirth Education 5 (February, 1990): 17-9.
• McKeon, Valerie A. "Cruel Myths and Clinical Facts About Menopause," RN (June, 1989): 52-9.
• McKeon, Valerie A & Kathleen Perrin. "The Pregnant Woman with a Myocardial Infarction: Nursing Diagnosis," Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing 8 (March, 1989): 92-100.
• McKeon, Valerie A. "Dispelling Menopause Myths," Journal of Gerontological Nursing 14, (August, 1988): 26-9.
• Lynch, Martha H. & Valerie A. McKeon. "Home Phototherapy for Newborn Hyperbilirubinemia," Caregiver: The Home Health Nursing Monitor I (Spring, 1988): 1-4.

Other Publications:

• McKeon, Valerie A. "A Break with Tradition," Saint Anselm Magazine 34 (March, 1992): 19-21.
• McKeon, Valerie A. "The Meeting that Changed Saint Anselm," Saint Anselm Magazine 31 (June, 1989): 16-20
• McKeon, Valerie A "The Early History of Saint Anselm College: A Benedictine College in New Hampshire," American Benedictine Review 38 (December, 1987): 339-59.
• McKeon, Valerie A. "A Struggle to Survive," Saint Anselm Magazine 30 (May, 1987): 16-9.
• McKeon, Valerie A. "The Founding of Saint Anselm College: New Hampshire's First Catholic College," Historical New Hampshire 41 (Spring, 1986): 21-44.
• McKeon, Valerie A. History of Saint Anselm College: 1989-1985. Diss. Boston College, 1985. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1986.
• Interviewed for and quoted in Culverwell, Melissa. "Perinatal Effects of Cocaine," Childbirth Instructor (Winter, 1991): 10-3, 16-7.

Briefs

• McKeon, Valerie A. "Advantages of Transdermal Estrogen," RN (September, 1989): 94-5.
• McKeon, Valerie A."Identifying Osteoporosis Early," Nursing 18 (March, 1988): 77.
• McKeon, Valerie A."Menopause: When Does it Start?" Nursing 17 (October, 1987): 90.
• McKeon, Valerie A."Tips for Handling Hot Flashes," Nursing 17 (September, 1987): 124.
• McKeon, Valerie A."Explaining Cervical Conization," Nursing 17 (September, 1987): 90.
• McKeon, Valerie A."Cause of Hot Flashes," Nursing 17 (July, 1987): 9 1.
• McKeon, Valerie A. "Avoiding Toxic Shock Syndrome," Nursing 17 (April, 1987): 116.

Research:
"A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Non-pharmacological Methods of Lactation Suppression" - A clinical research project conducted at Southern NH Medical Center Project Evaluator, Mobile Community Health Team project - A federally funded multidisciplinary outreach partnership between public and private entities serving the homeless and indigent population of Manchester, NH - 2/88-2/89. Responsibilities included developing evaluation tools, determining outcomes and preparing Year I Evaluation Report submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Paper Presentations:

• "The Breast Cancer Prevention Trial: Evaluating Tamoxifen's Efficacy in Preventing Breast Cancer - Advances in Health Care for Women Over Forty - CNE, Saint Anselm College, 4/30/98
• "The Breast Cancer Prevention Trial" - The Twenty-Third Annual Women's and Newborn Health Conference, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cambridge, MA, 6/4/97
• "Nursing Management of Second Stage Labor: Integrating Research into Practice" -Co-presenter at Third Annual Perspectives in Maternal Child Health Nursing, Windham, NH, 10/9/96
• "Non-pharmacological Methods to Suppress Lactation" - Co-presenter at New Hampshire Nurses' Association spring convention, 4/1/93
• "A Survey of Homeless Individuals Served by the Mobile Community Health Team Project" - Nursing Honor Societies" Alliance Seventh Annual Research Conference, 11/3/89
• "The Mobile Community Health Team Project: Providing Care for the Homeless in Manchester, NH - A presentation to nursing faculty, Saint Anselm College, 4/10/89
• "The Early History of Saint Anselm College" - Sigma Theta Tau, Epsilon Tau chapter of the International Honor Society of Nursing, 4/22/86
• "Ethical Decision Making: The Process and Its Limitations" Bioethics Colloquium, Saint Anselm College, 4/11/80

Grants, Honors, and Awards:

• Sabbatical - Spring semester, 1996, 1985
• Sigma Theta Tau, Epsilon Tau Chapter Research Award, 1992 - First annual award
• Sigma Theta Tau, International Honor Society for Nursing, 1982 to present
• Professional Nurse Traineeship, 1965-67; 1968-69

Certification:

• RN,C - Certified in In-Patient Obstetrics by the National Certification Corporation for Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing Specialties (NCC)
• LC - Certified by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE)

Service to the College:

• Academic Procedures Committee (non-Senate member), 1997-98
• Reaccredidation Self-study, Standard 4 Committee Alumni Association National Board, 1992-93, 1995-96
• Reaccredidation Self-study, Standard 4 Committee
• Alumni Association National Board, 1992-93, 1995-96
• Faculty Senate, 1981-3; 1984-88; 1989-92
• Promotions Review Committee - 19881-82, 1985-86; 1990-91, 1991-92
• Tenure Review Committee - 1982-83, 1984-85, 1986-7, 1989-90
• Faculty Benefits Committee - 1986-87
• Academic Freedom - 1981-82,1985-86, Chair
• Elections Committee, 1990-91
• Father Bernard Holes Scholarship Committee, 1989
  

Service to Community

• Lector, Saint Elizabeth Seton Parish, Bedford, NH, 1988-1994
• Saint Anselm College representative to NEON, 1991-93
• Quality Assurance Evaluator, Maternal-Child Health Services, Manchester Visiting Nurse Association, 5/86-1/96
• Board of Directors, Greater Manchester Mental Health Center, (Chairman of Professional Advisory Committee, Public Relations Committee, United Way Telethon Worker), 1/78-1/82

E-mail Address:
vmckeon@anselm.edu