Nursing Faculty
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Evelyn Moore Dr. Evelyn Moore teaches part time in the department, teaching courses in the area of maternal child. She teaches a required senior level course in this area, as well as regularly offers a first year seminar and occasional electives. She has conducted research and published in maternal child nursing and nursing education. She presented and held office for professional meetings and organizations in the area of nursing and collegiate administration. Her clinical practice has been in the area of women's health, maternal and child nursing, and gynecology including oncology. Prior to 1997 she was the nursing department chair for 13 years, since 1997 she has served as the college registrar with most of her college responsibilities being in that area. |
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Anita Nicholson Anita Nicholson teaches pathophysiology, health assessment, pharmacology, medical-surgical nursing, and nursing research. She works closely with students during their one-on-one nurse preceptor clinical experiences. She is deeply committed to teaching the May Term Southern Africa course. A highlight of the course is working with Parish nurses in remote underprivileged areas. Her research interests involve active-learning teaching strategies for nursing students. She has published and presented at national and international nursing conferences. |
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H. Jule Ohrt H. Jule Ohrt teaches courses in Advanced Concepts/Clinical Applications; Leadership and Contemporary Issues; Alternative Therapies for Health and Healing, and Aging and Chronicity. Her clinical experience is post-surgical care, emergency room care, adult intensive care (cardiac, medical, and surgical) nursing, cardiac rehabilitation, camp nursing, and administration. She worked as a critical care clinical specialist, and she has been a faculty member in the Nursing Department at Coe College since 1990. Her administrative experience includes nurse manager of a cardiac medical surgical intensive care unit, and as chairperson of the Coe College Nursing Department until 2008. Her Master's research focus was Validation of Defining Characteristics for the Nursing diagnosis - Alteration in Comfort: Pain and Exploration of the Nursing Interventions, and her doctoral research was a qualitative study entitled: Social Support of Traditional Baccalaureate Nursing Students. |
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Sara Balik Scott Sara Scott coordinates the nursing skills labs and is a clinical coordinator. Sara’s clinical expertise is in Neonatal Nursing. Sara has held positions as a Staff Nurse, Assistant Nurse Manager, a PICU/NICU Float Nurse and a Research Nurse at the University of Iowa and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. Her unit interests have been in Quality Management. Sara holds certification in NIDCAP (Neonatal Individualized Developmental Care Assessment Program). She has been a member of NANN, IANN and Sigma Theta Tau. She is an active member in community organizations including Playtime Poppy and the Parent Teacher Association. |
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Brenda Shostrom Brenda Shostrom has clinical expertise in mental health nursing and management. She currently teaches mental health nursing, leadership and contemporary issues in nursing, and nursing issues seminars. Prior to joining the Coe faculty she held positions as nurse manager, coordinator of crisis intervention services, psychiatric consult liaison nurse, individual and group therapist, management consultant and staff nurse. She spent several years in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada teaching nursing as well as consulting in a variety of capacities. She has been active in the American Psychiatric Nursing Association, including serving as a state officer and board member, and a member of a national task force on restraint/seclusion. Her research interest is adolescent depression. |
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Mary L. Taylor Mary L. Taylor teaches part-time for the nursing department. Her clinical experience included work in medical ICU and post surgical care. Her legal experience included clerking for Iowa's Sixth Judicial District and teaching business and health care law and ethics courses at the University of Iowa and other colleges. She currently teaches a required course on legal and ethical issues in health care, and teaches other courses as needed. In the community, Mary volunteers with Camp Hitaga -- a local summer camp for youth. |
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Mary Tobin Mary Tobin teaches courses in the areas of Nursing Informatics, Medical Surgical, Pediatrics and Community Health Nursing. Her research interests include: family dynamics, attachment, nursing informatics, and organizational commitment and empowerment in nursing. She enjoys pediatric nursing, camp nursing, serving in social justice groups and teaching about nursing among vulnerable populations. She is an active member in community organizations serving families with internationally adopted children. |
