Brittany Carney, DNP, FNP-BC
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Biography
Brittany (Britt) is a clinical nurse educator for Boston Medical Center’s Grayken Center for Addiction Training and Technical Assistance. After starting her professional career at Boston Medical Center, she is thrilled to return to her roots supporting patients with substance use and caring for adolescent patients. She is a doctorally prepared, board-certified family nurse practitioner. Her passion is caring for youth and families, especially those with substance use disorder. Her clinical interests include adolescents/young adults, co-occurring mental health disorders, optimizing safety/overdose prevention, and improving continuity of care among DCF/DYS-involved youth. She has over a decade of experience working in addiction medicine from clinical operations to education/training. She pursued her DNP degree to continue to work to bring best practices into clinical care.
Education
- University of Massachusetts Worcester, DNP
- University of Massachusetts Worcester, MS
- Boston University School of Medicine, MS
- Assumption College, BA
- University of Massachusetts Worcester, RN
Classes Taught
- N/A
Publications
- Published on 1/23/2025
Carney BL, Loukas V, LaBelle CT. Harm Reduction Is Nursing Practice. Am J Nurs. 2025 Feb 01; 125(2):8. PMID: 39844212.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/26/2024
Calihan JB, Carney BL, Schmill DM, Bagley SM. The Call for a School-Based Approach to Opioid Overdose Prevention. Am J Public Health. 2024 Dec; 114(12):1305-1308. PMID: 39326003.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/15/2022
Gravlin G, Fortunato-Habib M, Gemme D, Carney B, Dick K. Diving in: Using a "Shark Tank" approach to teach business skills to future DNP leaders. J Prof Nurs. 2022; 40:66-72. PMID: 35568461.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/5/2018
Alford DP, Carney BL, Jackson AH, Brett B, Bridden C, Winter M, Samet JH. Promoting addiction medicine teaching through functional mentoring by co-training generalist chief residents with faculty mentors. Subst Abus. 2018; 39(3):377-383. PMID: 29452056.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2018
Carney BL, Hadland SE, Bagley SM. Medication Treatment of Adolescent Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care. Pediatr Rev. 2018 Jan; 39(1):43-45. PMID: 29292291.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/1/2017
Bagley SM, Hadland SE, Carney BL, Saitz R. Addressing Stigma in Medication Treatment of Adolescents With Opioid Use Disorder. J Addict Med. 2017 Nov/Dec; 11(6):415-416. PMID: 28767537.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/1/2016
Alford DP, Carney BL, Brett B, Parish SJ, Jackson AH. Improving Residents' Safe Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Pain Using an Objective Structured Clinical Examination. J Grad Med Educ. 2016 Jul; 8(3):390-7. PMID: 27413443.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/22/2014
Shanahan CW, Sorensen-Alawad A, Carney BL, Persand I, Cruz A, Botticelli M, Pressman K, Adams WG, Brolin M, Alford DP. The implementation of an integrated information system for substance use screening in general medical settings. Appl Clin Inform. 2014; 5(4):878-94. PMID: 25589904.
Read at: PubMed