INSTRUCTORS Natalie Stepanian, PhD, RN, brings 35 years of clinical nursing experience ranging from emergency/ICU nursing in the acute care setting to home health/public health nursing in the community. Dr. Stepanian’s research interests include public health, aging, gerontology, end of life care, sexuality, and health policy. She has taught courses at the undergraduate level in community health/public health, advanced medical/surgical, health assessment, health
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policy, pathophysiology, research, and regulation.
Prior to joining the faculty in the College of Nursing, Melody Reibel, PhD, RN, served as faculty in the undergraduate BSN program at Bellarmine University
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for 16 years. She has more than 20 years of clinical experience primarily in adult critical care areas. For her dissertation, she conducted a qualitative study of women’s experiences with fibromyalgia and a
PhD 4 University of Louisville
cross-sectional study to examine the relationships of patient-healthcare provider communication with illness uncertainty, helplessness, and subjective wellbeing in a sample of 138 women with fibromyalgia.
Amy Gulledge, MSN/Ed, RN, CNE, is a NLN certified nurse educator whose interests include promotion of critical thinking in classroom-based learning, promotion of health within the local and global community, addiction disorders, anxiety disorders (specifically PTSD and OCD), and management of chronic illness in those with serious mental illness. Her clinical experience includes trauma, orthopedics, cardiac, mental health, and case management.
DeeDee Carter-Saks, DNP, FNP-BC, CCRN, is an ANCC board certified Family Nurse Practitioner, and NRCME Certified Medical Examiner. She previously taught
BSN | MSN 4 Jacksonville University DNP 4 University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
at Jacksonville University, Concordia University, and Jefferson College of Health Sciences. A nurse practitioner since 2010, with 28 years of nursing experience, her clinical background covers a variety of specialties such as ER, critical care, cardiology, electrophysiology, orthopedics, and community health. Her interests in-
clude cardiovascular disease management, community health,
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and high-fidelity simulation learning.
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