Sandra Mott PhD, RN-BC, CPN

Dr. Mott currently serves as a Nurse Scientist and Research Consultant at Boston Children’s Hospital in the Cardiovascular and Critical Care Program and Co-director of the Nurse Science Fellowship as part of the Academy of Scholarship and Clinical Inquiry. Her expertise is in qualitative research with many years of teaching and conducting studies using various qualitative methods. Currently, she provides mentorship to nurses in the Nurse Science Fellowship for their qualitative studies and projects.

For more than 34 years, Dr. Mott was Associate Professor at the Boston College, William. F. Connell School of Nursing. She served as a Department Chair from 1990-1995 and 2003-2008. Her teaching, service, and scholarly pursuits include innovative integration of theory and concepts related to Nursing Health Assessment, Health Promotion, and Growth and Development through the Life Span; creative revision of a Child Health Theory course to be more conceptual and family-focused; mentoring faculty and serving as a role model for faculty in their role as clinical instructors. She was the lead editor for two editions of a major child health nursing textbook which focused on health promotion, growth and development, and family-centered care, a concept integral to delivering excellent nursing care to children. Dr. Mott also taught doctoral qualitative research courses and directed multiple doctoral dissertations using qualitative methods.