Frances McCarthy, RN
Fran McCarthy has been a nurse for over 30 years. She was a bedside NICU nurse for 28 years, manager of the NICU and Pediatrics at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Manhattan for two years, and is currently the Clinical Coordinator of the Neonatal Comfort Care Program at New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, working under the direction of Dr. Elvira Parravicini. Fran received her BSN from Fairleigh Dickinson University and her Master of Science as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner from Columbia University in 1998. She has always been interested in the psychological, emotional, and spiritual perspectives of nursing care in conjunction with clinical care. She has taught about bereavement care and support to new staff in the NICU core course and has lectured about Neonatal Comfort Care nationally and abroad. She is the clinical coordinator of the neonatal comfort care program at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.