The desire to help the sick led me into the profession of nursing more than 25 years ago. It enabled me to experience a journey of caring within various specialties including emergency and critical care nursing, home care, and even owning my own nursing business. All throughout my career I found myself creating and implementing teaching and learning opportunities for a variety of medical professionals and nursing students, sparking a passion for becoming an educator. Eventually, I turned this passion into a profession by earning a Master of Science in Nursing Education degree and a Doctoral degree, enabling me to teach at the baccalaureate level. Having been an educator for nearly five years, I have found a place I call my teaching “home” at South University, which aligns closely with my own philosophy of student-centered education, and where my greatest reward is helping students develop into burgeoning professionals.
