Maria Pettinato, PhD, RN

Areas of Interest

Maria Pettinato, RN, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at Seattle University, Seattle, Washington. She is an experienced faculty member teaching Patho-physiology, Neurobiology, and Med/Surg nursing in both undergraduate and graduate programs on the east and west coast of the United States for the past 28 years. Her research interests focus on sexual minority health issues and medicinal cannabis. Her scholarly work focuses on substance use, mental health issues, and sexual minority health issues.

Recent Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals

Pettinato, M. (2017). Medicinal cannabis: A primer for nurses. Nursing 2017, 8, 40-47.

Adriane, S., Wojnar, D., Pettinato, M. (2015). It’s how we could have a family: Conception, Pregnancy,and birth experiences of male and gender variant gestational parents. Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health.

Leach, S., Wojnar, D., Pettinato, M. (2014). Lived experience of miscarriage for nine Latina immigrant women. Journal of Theory Construction & Testing, 18, 11-16.

Pettinato, M (2012). Providing care for GLBTQ patients. Nursing2012, 42, 22-28.

Pettinato, M. (2008). Nobody was out back then: A grounded theory study of midlife and older lesbians with alcohol problems. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 29, 619-638.

Swanson, K.M., Connor, S., Jolley S.N., Pettinato, M., Wang, T. J. (2007). Contexts and evolution of women’s responses to miscarriage during the first year after loss. Research in Nursing & Health, 30, 2-16.

Pettinato, M. (2005). Predicting, understanding and changing: Three research paradigms regarding alcohol use among lesbians, Journal of Lesbian Studies, 9(3), 91-101.

Refereed Books

Pettinato, M. (2005). Predicting, understanding and changing: Three research paradigms regarding alcohol use among lesbians. In E. E. Ettore (Ed.), Making Lesbians Visible in the Substance Use Field, 91-101. Binghamton: Harrington Park Press.

Other Scholarly Publications

Bearman, D., Pettinato, M. (2018). Cannabis medicine: A guide to the practice of cannabinoid medicine; Santa Barbara: Blue Point Books.

Pettinato, M. (2006). An attempt toward connection and positive change, Neurotransmitter, 4-16.

Scholarly Activities

Consultant, Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement, George Washington University School of Nursing.

Consultant, research project at the University of Washington: Medical Marijuana and Chronic Pain, funded by the WA State Attorney General.

Research podium presentation: Nobody was out back then: Abuse of alcohol by midlife and older lesbians, on April 13, 2007 at the Intersections of Race and Gender: (Re) Imagining the Family Interdisciplinary Conference, Seattle, WA.

Research podium presentation: Nobody was out back then: Abuse of alcohol by midlife and older lesbians, on February 23, 2007 at the Southern Nursing Research Society annual conference, Galveston, Texas.