University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing Dean and Professor of Nursing, Ada Lindsey, Ph.D., is scheduled to visit with nursing administrators in nine Nebraska communities June 16-18. Carol Pullen, Ed.D., assistant dean for rural nursing education, also will be traveling with the dean.
We want to hear from the rural nursing directors what their needs are and what they anticipate the future needs will be so we can consider ways to best meet their needs, said Dr. Lindsey. One of the missions of UNMC is to improve the health of Nebraskans. We are interested in working with communities so we can give student nurses the right educational experiences to provide Nebraskans with the highest quality of patient care.
Dr. Lindsey will visit Lexington, Cozad, Gothenburg, North Platte, Ogallala, Grant, McCook, Holdrege, Hastings and Grand Island.
Since we offer opportunities in rural Nebraska for advanced education, we also want to talk about what we have to offer. We think its very important that nurses have advanced nursing education, especially in view of the nursing shortage and the complex health care needs in rural communities. Nurses with advanced degrees have many opportunities in todays health care arena.
Dr. Lindsey said UNMC will continue to expand its nursing programs across the state, through the use of innovative technology and community partnerships so bachelors, masters and doctoral nursing programs are accessible to registered nurses who want higher degrees in nursing. UNMC has nursing divisions in Scottsbluff, Kearney, Lincoln and Omaha, as well as a distance education offerings for rural nurses who can obtain their education in their communities. The distance education offerings are mostly Internet-based programs that make getting higher education more accessible and flexible, reducing barriers of time, distance and transportation.
Dr. Lindsey began her appointment as dean March 1, 1995, as the fifth dean of the 82-year-old UNMC College of Nursing. Before joining UNMC, she served as dean of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Nursing, as well as professor of nursing. She served as an administrator and faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, University of Maryland, School of Nursing in Baltimore and at the Mount Carmel School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio where she also started her career in nursing as staff nurse at The Ohio State University Hospital.
Dr. Lindsey earned her bachelors degree in 1959 and her masters degree in 1960 from The Ohio State University School of Nursing. She received her doctoral degree in physiology in 1977 from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.