Faculty - Nursing

Elisa Giaquinto received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Brenau University in Gainesville Georgia and her Master of Science in nursing from Georgia State University with a specialization in gerontology. In addition, Elisa studied social gerontology at Georgia State University and received a Certificate of Graduate Study in gerontology. While working as a clinical nurse specialist in gerontology, Elisa designed and directed an acute care medical unit for elders on Cape Cod, created a gerontology nurse resource program for acute care nurses, organized community based wellness clinics for seniors in residential retirement communities, designed and led an inpatient unit for community based elders with dementias, and helped a variety of hospitals in Georgia, Massachusetts and Rhode Island to create patterns of care delivery systems for frail acutely ill elders.

Elisa returned to school to explore the role of cultural values and systems of belief in the formation of health policy and their role in the structure of community life for older people. She earned a Master of Arts in anthropology from Brown University and continued on with doctoral studies where she examined the everyday life of older people and the relationships between social institutions, rural community life, social integration and independence in central Italy.
Elisa’s research interests continue to involve community institutions and their relationship to health and independence through the life course and specifically as they affect the lived experience of old age. Currently she is conducting ethnographic research in rural Nova Scotia.

Elisa has taught nursing, sociology, anthropology for Regis College, Lasell College and Pine Manor College in Massachusetts before joining Husson University and moving to Bangor Maine in the fall of 2011. She also has a home in Southwest Nova Scotia where she is active in the Gerontology Association of Nova Scotia and in her local community. She is an avid photographer and plein air painter.

Nancy Grover received her BSN from Bellevue School of Nursing at Hunter College in New York City, NY. She also has a Master's in Child, Adolescent and Family, Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing from Yale University School of Nursing in New Haven, CT. Nancy, an Advanced Practice RN (APRN), is nationally certified as a child/adolescent and adult psychiatric mental health CS by ANCC. In addition to her part-time faculty position in the Husson College Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing Program, Nancy is employed at Community Health and Counseling Services in Bangor, Maine as an APRN in collaborative practice with psychiatrists. She also is actively involved in the community as a group leader, consultant and psychotherapist.