"Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all our lives.” Florence Nightingale

As a nurse educator, I strive to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion amongst students, colleagues, and the broader community through my teaching, research, and service. I recognize the importance of shaping my teaching experiences to effectively enhance patient and community outcomes. As I move from clinical nursing to a nurse educator role in academics, I aim to enhance students' nursing knowledge and support their diverse cultural backgrounds to promote their growth and learning. I understand that learners adopt various strategies for learning. Through my pedagogy, I aim to enhance students’ nursing knowledge, while supporting diverse cultural backgrounds striving to promote their growth and learning. From the perspective of a community health nurse educator I strive to train future nurses to tackle health disparities and enhance community well-being.

As a teacher of nursing, I promote holistic patient-centeredness care. My core values include guiding learners to lead their nursing process in a caring manor; promoting diversity for my students and guiding students to understand the importance of allowing for diversity in their nursing care; as well as fostering integrity and maintaining high-quality ethical pedagogy excellence which is backed in peer reviewed evidence based science.

Technology in teaching and learning has evolved into necessary tools to best promote and effect learning for educators and students. I work to integrate digital tools, from interactive learning management systems and virtual classrooms, to exploring AI-driven tools. Utilizing these tools allows me to  continue to learn and grow in my e-learning and teaching capabilities. 

By incorporating Mezirow’s Transformational Learning Theory into my pedagogy, I work to inspire students’ learning, understanding, creativity and reflection. This fosters the application of purpose in students’ knowledge and experience beyond the classroom. As adult learners, following this learning theory through teachings and experiences, students are able to discover insights which can be applied to all aspects of life.

By studying at UW’s DNP in Population Health and Systems Leadership program, I will further develop in my learning of skills and tools needed to foster robust nursing education, affect change, decrease disparities, increase health equity, and improve the health of communities.

Within the heart of nursing values is the impetus to provide those around us with the tools and opportunity for supporting the well-being of others. I see this as being achieved both academically and clinically.