Eleonor Pusey-Reid, DNP, RN, MS, MEd

Eleonor Pusey-Reid, DNP, RN, M.Ed., is an Associate Professor at MGH Institute of Health Professions (MGH IHP) in the School of Nursing and has served mostly in a faculty/academic leadership role for more than 29 years and as a clinician in Critical Care Nursing for 30 years. She displays a passion for teaching Adult Health, Evidence-Based Practice, and Leadership in Nursing to prelicensure students. She has extensive experience (over 29 years) in curriculum development and Instruction, innovative teaching methodology, and evaluation of students learning. She is a Steering Committee member of the School of Nursing - Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health.

Dr. Pusey-Reid has also served in nursing academia locally and internationally (Latin America – Costa Rica; Mexico; Dominican Republic), in a leadership post, and as Visiting Professor. Her clinical specialty is in Adult Critical Care. Her scholarship and life work interest lie in working with students of untapped potential, addressing racial microaggression, and advocating for making invisible labor visible for minoritized faculty. Her commitment to nursing education and her passion for nursing has led her to serve as a Board of Registered Nursing Member and a member of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Leadership Network (DEILN). 

She earned her Bachelor’s degree (BS) from the Universidad de Montemorelos (Mexico) – Masters of Science (MS) from the Loma Linda University in California – Master’s in Education (M.Ed.) from Atlantic Union College, and finally her Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree with an emphasis in Education from the MGH Institute of Health Professions.

Dr. Pusey-Reid’s current research focuses on Black students' experiences with Microaggressions teaching clinical reasoning and clinical judgment and how to increase the representation of dark skin tones in nursing literature. Previous research interests are on emotional intelligence as an admission criterion to nursing programs, optimizing NCLEX-RN pass rate using an educational microsystems improvement approach, and the intersection of climate change and COVID-19.