Mylott Named Director for Nursing Ed, Innovation, Evidence-based Practice

Laura Mylott, PhD, RN, joined the Center for Nursing Excellence in October as director for Teaching, Innovation and Evidence-Based Practice. In this role, she will work with clinical nurses to establish standards for effective teaching within a clinical practice setting and create opportunities to develop nurses in the clinician-teacher role. Mylott is responsible for creating an approach within nursing for evidenced-based clinical decision-making and patient care. Additional responsibilities include the development and management of the Nursing Simulation Center and the facilitation of a programmatic approach to scientific inquiry in nursing practice.

Mylott joins BWH from Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was manager and faculty for the New Graduate Nurse in Critical Care program. There, Mylott worked with nurse managers, clinical nurse specialists and clinical nurses to create and implement a program to prepare and support newly graduated nurses to care for critically ill patients. Mylott also was clinical associate professor at Boston College’s William Connell School of Nursing.

Mylott’s broad range of nursing experience includes practicing as a clinical nurse specialist with a focus on caring for the chronically critically ill patient population in the Coronary Care Unit at MGH; vice chairperson for Cardiovascular Nursing at New England Medical Center; and clinical nurse specialist in the Cardiothoracic ICU at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Mylott’s research interests and experience encompasses weaning ventilator dependent patients and understanding how learning occurs during the transition from student nurse to practitioner.

Mylott earned her PhD in Nursing from Boston College, her MSN from Yale University and her BSN from Salve Regina University.