The Gordon E. Inman College of Health Sciences & Nursing welcomed four new full-time faculty members into the School of Nursing this fall. These new members include the following individuals:
Jamie Adam comes to us from College of the Ozarks in Missouri as a full time faculty member in adult health and will be joining us in August. She has a wide range of teaching experience including 2 years at MTSU. She has an MSN from MTSU as a family nurse practitioner and a DNP in Educational Leadership from Case Western Reserve University. Jamie has experience with high-fidelity simulation and has an interest in transcultural nursing. She is also fluent in Spanish.
Loretta Bond is joining us on a full time basis beginning in August to work in adult health areas. Loretta comes to us with many years of teaching experience, most recently at Marquette University and Western Kentucky University. She has been teaching in our Adult Health I labs for the past two semesters. Loretta has an MSN form Marquette University with a support area of curriculum and instruction. She is near the completion of her doctoral work at RUSH University with a research area in health disparities-cultural mistrust.
Sandy Rosedale is inaugurating a new role at Belmont as clinical placement coordinator. She will begin in July and will be on a 12-month contract going forward. Her role will include being our primary contact to all our clinical agencies. Sandy has an MSN from University of California, San Francisco as a Geriatric Clinical Nurse Specialist. We have known Sandy well over this past academic year as she has served in a full time adjunct faculty role teaching in community health and leadership and management. She will continue to teach approximately 6 hours per semester.
Erica Sevier is a new full time faculty member with primary responsibility in women’s health. She will be teaching primarily in NUR 4210 but will continue to help with some adult health clinical from time to time. Erica has an MSN from Vanderbilt University in Women’s Health. Of course we already know Erica from her full time adjunct role with us over the past year. Erica is teaching in the OB course this summer and will begin her full time responsibilities in August while continuing her doctoral work at Trevecca.