Dr. Pat Pierce, Assistant Director & Visiting Professor
Department of Nursing

Dr. Pat Pierce

Dr. Patricia Pierce was appointed interim chair of the Department of Nursing in September 2006. (See related article.) She had recently retired from her position at Indiana University-South Bend where she served as assistant professor of nursing and director of graduate education.

In addition to her work at IU-South Bend, Pat Pierce has taught at the University of Massachusetts at Worcester, Widener University in Chester, Pa.; University of Delaware in Newark, Del.; and Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.

She earned her Doctor of Nursing Science and Master of Science in Nursing degrees from Indiana University in Indianapolis, Ind., and her Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of New Hampshire.

Dr. Pierce is currently developing a baccalaureate nursing program at Huntington University that will meet the accreditation standards of the Indiana State Board of Nursing and the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. This includes, in part, developing a nursing curriculum, arranging for clinical facilities, assisting in the recruitment of a nursing department chair and additional nursing faculty, and assisting in the development of the lab.

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