Nursing Faculty
Evelyn Moore
R.N., Professor
B.S.N., University of Iowa
M.A., University of Iowa
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Dr. Evelyn Moore teaches part time in the department, teaching courses in the area of nursing issues and research. She has conducted research and published in maternal child nursing. She has made numerous presentations at professional meetings and will be presenting soon on legal liability concerns when providing references. Her clinical practice has been in the area of women's health, maternal and child nursing. 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 responsibilities being in that area.
Anita Nicholson
Assistant Professor
B.S.N., University of Iowa
M.A., University of Iowa
Anita Nicholson teaches pathophysiology, health assessment, introductory and advanced concepts in nursing, psychomotor skills and pharmacology content in the nursing program. She creates nursing psychomotor skill videos for the Coe nursing psychomotor skill website. These videos are easily accessed by nursing students to help facilitate learning of psychomotor skills needed for clinical practice. The videos contain theory and instructions of nursing skills and step by step demonstrations. She is able to easily edit the videos to keep the content current with the dynamic state of health care. Her research interests involve families of the critically ill. She has been involved in two studies focusing on child visitation in the critical care units, and has presented continuing education conferences on interventions for families of the critically ill.
H. Jule Ohrt
R.N., Professor
B.A. in Nursing, Jamestown College
M.S., Nursing from University of Arizona
Ph.D., Social Foundations of Education from University of Iowa
H. Jule Ohrt teaches courses in Advanced Concepts/Clinical Applications; Leadership and Contemporary Issues; Alternative Therapies for Health and Healing, and Topics in Health care. Her clinical experience is medical-surgical nursing, critical care nursing, and administration.She taught critical care classes as a clinical specialist and has beena faculty member in the Nursing Deparment at Coe College since 1990.Her administrative experience includesnurse manager of a cardiac medical surgical intensive care andchairperson 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.
Brenda Shostrom
Assistant Professor, Chair
B.S.N., Washburn University
M.S., University of Minnesota
Ph.D., Loyola University
Brenda Shostrom has clinical expertise in mental health nursing and in management. She currently teaches mental health nursing, leadership and issues, the art and science of nursing, relationships, and ethics. 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 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. Other contributions have included serving on the Iowa task force to improve emergency services for psychiatric patients, improving Linn County mental health services as part of the Healthy People 2000 Task Force, and coordinating a nursing leadership training grant project in conjunction with several other schools of nursing in the state of Iowa. Her research interest is adolescent depression.
Mary Tobin
R.N., Assistant Professor
B.S.N., Iowa Weslyan College
M.A., University of Iowa
Mary Tobin teaches courses in the areas of Maternal Child and Community Health Nursing. Her research interests include: infant temperament, family dynamics, attachment, nursing informatics, and commitment in nursing. She enjoys serving in social justice groups and is an active member in community organizations serving families with internationally adopted children.
