Faculty Profiles

ASN Program, Denver, CO Campus, Full-Time Faculty & Staff
NAME: Kathryn Doeschot, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Program interim chair. 
AREAS OF INTEREST:

Rehabilitation, long term care, leadership.
   
NAME: Melville Wear, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Medical-surgical nursing, foundations/fundamentals, mental health, pharmacology, gerontology, leadership and management.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Geriatrics, geriatric psych, adolescent psych, webcasting, online nursing education, simulation, pharmacology and new teaching strategies.
   
NAME: Stephanie Swanson, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Medical-surgical nursing, foundations/fundamentals, mental health, pharmacology, gerontology, leadership.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Geriatrics, geriatric psych, adolescent psych, on-line nursing education, simulation, pharmacology and new teaching strategies
   
NAME: Denise Walter, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: BSN (MSN in progress)
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Foundations lab and simulation lab
AREAS OF INTEREST: Ethics, end of life issues, transplants, simulation and operating room nursing.
   
   
ASN Program, Zona Rosa, MO Campus, Full-Time Faculty and Staff
NAME: Ann S. Moss, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Program chair
AREAS OF INTEREST: Medical surgical, foundations, telemetry and leadership.
   
NAME: Jill Smith, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: BSN (MSN - in progress)
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Skills lab coordinator
AREAS OF INTEREST: OB/maternal child
   
NAME: Sharon Jackson, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Medical surgical, fundamentals of nursing, health assessment.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Medical surgical, fundamentals of nursing, health assessment.
   
NAME: Sue Klawuhn, RNC, IBCLC
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: OB/maternity, labor/delivery, postpartum, antepartum, newborn nursery, women’s health, GYN surgery, ethics and trends in nursing.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Women’s health issues, OB/maternity, long-term antepartum care, professional development of faculty, OB/Peds, pharmacology, fundamentals of nursing.
   
NAME: Diane Banks, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Medical surgical, critical care, telemetry.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Medical surgical, critical care, mental health.
   
   
BSN Program, Rapid City, SD Campus, Full-Time Faculty & Staff
NAME: Victoria L. S. Britson, ARNP
DEGREE LEVEL: PhD ARNP-BC CNE
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Program chair. Community and public health nursing
AREAS OF INTEREST: Community and public health, nursing education, family practice, informatics, qualitative research, Parse’s Theory of Humanbecoming.
   
NAME: Sarah Mollman, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MS in Nursing Education
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Medical/surgical, oncology.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Active learning and simulation.
   
NAME: Charlene Bierema, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Geriatrics, ICU, medical/surgical, ER.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Geriatrics, ICU, medical/surgical, ER.
   
   
BSN and LPN Bridge to BSN Programs, Overland Park, KS Campus, Full-Time Faculty & Staff
NAME: Debbie R. Weisman, RNC
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN, Certified Inpatient Obstetrical Nurse, Certification in Fetal Heart Monitoring Principles and Practice
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Obstetrics, pediatrics, community, nursing leadership, operating room, medical-surgical nursing and gerontology.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Obstetrical nursing, childbirth educator coordinator, manager/director, nursing leadership and trends in nursing.
   
NAME: Cindy L. Nunamaker, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Hospice, mental health, and community health.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Hospice and quality of death.
   
NAME: Kathryn Peters, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: Diploma, BA-Healthcare Administration
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: BSN Foundational Core Advisor
AREAS OF INTEREST: BSN Foundational Core Advisor
   
   
Online RN to BSN Program
NAME: Ebony S. Fisher RN, MSN
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN, PhD (c)
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Program chair, medical-surgical nursing, postpartum and newborn care, leadership and management, psychiatric nursing and fundamentals of nursing.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Online instruction and learning, innovative teaching strategies, nursing leadership, ethics and psychiatric nursing.
   
NAME: Heather Roberts, RN, Faculty and Student Advisor
DEGREE LEVEL:         MSN - (EdD - in progress)
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Maternal/child, pharmacology, health assessment, online nursing education and simulation.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Advising, online nursing education, simulation and course development.
     
   
Online MSN Program Full-Time Faculty & Staff
NAME: Ebony Fisher, RN, MSN
DEGREE LEVEL:        MSN, PhD (c)
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Program chair. Medical-surgical nursing, postpartum and newborn care, leadership and management, psychiatric nursing and fundamentals of nursing
AREAS OF INTEREST: Online instruction and learning, innovative teaching strategies, nursing leadership, ethics and psychiatric nursing.
   
   
BSN Program, Bloomington, MN Campus, Full-Time Faculty & Staff
NAME: Dana Feld RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Program chair, pediatrics, Integrative Medicine
AREAS OF INTEREST: Pediatrics, Pain and Palliative care, asthma education, Integrative Medicine (CAM)
   
NAME: Judy Greenfield RN
DEGREE LEVEL: BSN
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: BSN Foundational Core
AREAS OF INTEREST: Advising students during their foundational nursing classes, public health
   
NAME: Jesse Daniels, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MA
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Skills lab coordinator
AREAS OF INTEREST: Psychomotor nursing skills and simulation.
   
NAME: Laurel Ostrow, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN (Adult Nurse Practitioner), DNP in progress
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Mental health, public health, adolescent health, reproductive health, geriatrics.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Population health, diversity, global health issues, aging and older adults, cognitive impairments.
   
NAME: Lorraine (Lori) Baldrige, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Medical surgical, pediatrics, oncology.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Nursing history and nursing education.
   
   
BSN Program, Sioux Falls, SD Campus, Full-Time Faculty & Staff
NAME: Victoria L. S. Britson, ARNP
DEGREE LEVEL: PhD  ARNP-BC  CNE
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Program chair. Community and public health nursing
AREAS OF INTEREST: Community and public health, nursing education, family practice, informatics, qualitative research, Parse’s Theory of Humanbecoming.
   
NAME: Jada Peterson-Ihlen,  RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MS
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Skills lab coordinator
AREAS OF INTEREST: Simulation, antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn infants, gynecology.
     
NAME: Theresa Lewis-Nichol, RN  
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN/MHA
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Geriatrics, pediatrics, leadership and management.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Gerontology, nursing leadership and management, nursing informatics.
   
NAME: Jessica Jarding, RN
DEGREE LEVEL:

MS
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Medical-surgical, pediatrics, community health
AREAS OF INTEREST: Online education, simulation, evidence-based teaching strategies
   
NAME: Jennifer Hansen, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: BSN, RN-BC
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Certified Nurse Aide Program Coordinator
AREAS OF INTEREST: Geriatrics
   
NAME: Tracy Hadler, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Foundational Core Advisor
AREAS OF INTEREST: Gerontology, Nursing Education, Infection Control
   
   
BSN and LPN Bridge to BSN Programs, Wichita West, KS Campus, Full-Time Faculty & Staff
NAME: Brenda Helmer, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN (DNP in progress)
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Program interim chair.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Simulation education, community health, population-focused health care, curriculum, leadership.
   
NAME: Abbey Lowry, RN
DEGREE LEVEL: MSN/MHA
SPECIALTY AREAS OF TEACHING: Skills lab coordinator.  Nursing skills lab, critical care nursing, labor and delivery nursing, emergency room nursing, neonatology.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Simulation education, emergency room nursing, curriculum, leadership.