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Dr. Nancy Wilson - DNP, RN, PED-BC, RNC-MNN, SANE
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| Biography: | I am an Assistant Nursing Professor currently employed as a Registered Nurse at the Rainbow House Child Advocacy Center. I am an MSN graduate from Southern New Hampshire University with a focus in Patient Safety and Quality and a DNP graduate from Purdue in Nursing Leadership. With 25 plus years in nursing, I have had several job roles and responsibilities. Mental Health/Substance Abuse, Mother/Baby, Pediatric and Adult Emergency Medicine, Forensic Nursing (SANE) along with Leadership/Management positions. Most of my career and passion has been and continues to be in pediatrics and newborn nursing. Outside of work, I serve on the Community Advisory Board for Rainbow House in Houston County and enjoy traveling and gardening. |
| Courses: | NURS4211 |
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| Education: | Purdue- DNP Southern New Hampshire University- MSN State University of West Georgia- BSN Massasoit Community College- ASN |
| CV: | Education Adult and Adolescent Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program 2025 Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA Doctor of Nursing Practice-Leadership 2021 Purdue Global University, West Lafayette, IN Master of Science in Nursing- Patient Safety and Quality 2019 Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2003 State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA Associate of Science Degree in Nursing 1995 Massasoit Community College, Brockton, MA Statement of Teaching and Research Interests As a nurse educator with five years in academia, I am committed to fostering clinical excellence and compassionate care in future nurses. My teaching emphasizes evidence-based practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, and critical thinking, with a special focus on family-centered birth, pediatric care, and pediatric emergency medicine. I strive to create dynamic learning environments that prepare students to respond confidently and ethically to the complex needs of children and families across diverse healthcare settings. I have special research interests in neonatal abstinence syndrome, drug testing in women’s health, and workplace violence, and am currently working on a project related to secondary/vicarious trauma in healthcare students and faculty. Publications Effect of MRI Strength and Propofol Sedation on Pediatric Core Temperature Change. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2011 Scholarly output 2025 Faculty workgroup leader and researcher on Post-Traumatic Growth 2023 Georgia Association for Nursing Education (GANE)- Co-presenter of ATI testing methodology: To Peek or Not to Peek with Dr Kinzie Lee 2022 Head Start -Health Advisory Meeting/Speaker Communicable Diseases of Children 2021 Atrium Healthcare at Navicent, Macon, GA- Implementation of a new neonatal abstinence syndrome scoring system for the Family Birth Center and Pediatric units 2020 Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital, Macon, GA- Staff meeting presentation and survey regarding workplace violence in the pediatric emergency department |
| Professional Experience: | Forensic Nursing (SANE) Family Birth Center- Staff Nurse Emergency Department- Nurse Manager Sedation- Assistant Nurse Manager Pediatric Emergency Department- Assistant Nurse Manager Mental Health and Substance Abuse- Staff RN |
| Organizations: | Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Society of Pediatric Nurses Georgia Association of Nurse Educators National League of Nurses International Association of Forensic Nurses Academy of Forensic Nursing Sigma Theta Tau The Society of Collegiate Leadership |
| Publications: | Effects of MRI Strength and Propofol Sedation on Pediatric Core Temperature Change (2011). Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 33(4): 950-956. |
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