Associate Professor

Office Phone (414) 288-3841

E-Mail Address lisa.hanson@marquette.edu

Specialization

Nurse-Midwifery

Certification

Nurse-Midwifery

Highest Degree & Institution

PhD, Rush University Chicago

Brief Statement of Scholarly Interests

• Evidence-Based Nurse-Midwifery Practice: Specifically Second Stage Labor Care Practices
• Education for Midwives and Collaborating Partners: Specifically distance education and collaborative education involving Nurse-Midwives.

Additional Descriptors

• Research method expertise includes survey research, and qualitative methods including nonparticipant observation  and structured and unstructured interviewing.

Descriptive Titles of Courses Recently Taught

• Nurse-Midwifery Care of Women During Labor and Birth
• Advanced Practicum in Nurse-Midwifery
• Childbearing Family Nursing Theory

Clinical Practice

• 1987-Present- Aurora Midwifery and Wellness Center; Practice co-founder

Selected Publications
Hanson, L. (2009). Challenges in spontaneous bearing down. Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing, 23, 31-39.

Hanson, L. (2008). Expert Opinion. Prenatal education: Priorities for perinatal nurses. Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing, 22(4), 254-256.

Roberts, J. & Hanson, L.  (2007) Best practices in second stage labor care: Pushing and Positioning.  Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health. 52, 238-245.

Harrod, K.S, Hanson, L., & Osborne, K. (2007) Legislation and Policy Development In L Ament (Ed) Legislation and Policy Development in Professional Issues in Midwifery, Boston: Jones & Bartlet.

Hanson, L. (2006). Editorial: Expert Opinion. Pushing for change. Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing, 20, 4, 282-284.   

Hanson, L., Tillett, J., & Kirby, R. (2005) Medical students’ knowledge of midwifery practice  following didactic and clinical exposure.  Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, 50, 44-50.

Extramural Grants or Awards

2008 Marquette University Jump Start Award, for “A pilot study to develop a behavioral intervention tosupport self-regulated pushing during second stage labor: A focus group of Certified Nurse-Midwives as Informants

2004 Marquette’s Nurse-Midwifery Urban Initiative (3 years). (Co-PI: VandeVusse & Hanson, Health Resources Services Administraftion (HRSA) $656,072      

2004 The path to laboring down: A pilot assessment of passive descent for second stage management in low risk primigravid adult laboring women without epidural anesthesia.(PI) $3,000 Sigma Theta Tau International Delta Gamma Chapter Research Award

Honors and Awards:

• 2008 Forward Thinking Poster Session, Research Jumpstart Award
• 2008 Best Poster Presentation of Research, American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) Annual Meeting.
• 2002, 2003 and 2004  ACNM Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award

Research Reviewer

• 2001-present   ACNM Division of Research, Dissemination Section, Abstract review panel for research presentations at annual meeting.
• 2006-present   Aurora Medical Groupr Research Committee Member

Professional Affiliations

• 1982-present   Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care
• 1984-present   ACNM
• 1986-present   ACNM WI Chapter
• 1998-present   Midwest Nursing Research Society
• 2005-present   American Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)

Selected Current Leadership Positions

• 2005-present  Chair ACNM DOR Dissemination and Development Section
• 2001-present  ACNM-WI Chapter, legislative core group
• 2007-present, WAPC Peripartum Committee, Chair Cesarean Reduction Workgroup