Leslie Neal-Boylan, PhD, RN, CRRN, APRN, FNP-BC, is Professor and Graduate Coordinator at Southern Connecticut State University, and former Associate Professor, Nursing, Yale University and Marymount University, where she co-chaired the AD nursing program. She has extensive experience in family practice, chronic care, and internal medicine, with current practice as an FNP at Care Medica, CT. She is well published in the literature, peer-reviewed journals (90+ articles) and books, including the recent "Clinical Case Studies in Home Health Care" (2011) and a 2005 volume that won the AJN book of