Catherine Bevil, RN, PhD
PROJECT EVALUATOR
Dr. Bevil currently serves as the College's Director of Continuing Nursing Education and Evaluation. Dr. Bevil was an essential component of preparation for the submission of this grant especially in the area of evaluation and continues to provide support in evaluation and quality improvement strategies for the grant. She brings special expertise for the grant in grantsmanship, evaluation, and symptom management in chronic disease. |
Kathy Bickerstaff, RN, MSN, PMHNP
GEROPSYCHIATRIC ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING CLINICAL SUPERVISION
Ms Bickerstaff has worked in psychiatric/mental health nursing for 17 years as a staff nurse, home health nurse, manager, geriatric case manager, clinical instructor and licensed psychiatric nurse practitioner. She is a clinical instructor in the undergraduate and graduate programs. Her expertise is in Alzheimer caregiving. |
Linda Sather, RN, EdD,
Interim Director of the Morehead Nursing Center for Practice and Director of the Mobile Nursing Center
MOBILE PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT
Dr. Sather is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing who has extensive leadership in health promotion, community health for older adults, and grantsmanship for service learning projects. She has successfully funded the current mobile nursing unit and has developed the Senior Health Promotion Center in Lincoln, NE, a student delivered wellness screening clinic. |
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Lynda Mackin, PhD, APRN, GNP-BC
CONSULTANT
Dr. Mackin is an Assistant Professor and the Area Coordinator for Gerontological Advanced Practice Graduate Studies Program at University of California San Francisco. UCSF has Gerontological Nursing Hartford Center of Excellence. She is an evaluable asset for evaluation of content in the curriculum and educational programming for the grant. |
Additional Faculty
Julie Houfek, Ph.D., APRN-BC
Dr. Houfek is an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing. Dr Houfek is the Area Coordinator of the Geripsychiatric Nurse Practitioner Program. Dr. Houfek has been an evaluable asset to this grant in geropsychiatric curriculum development. Dr. Houfek’s clinical specialty is psychiatric mental health nursing. |
Michael J. Rice, Ph.D., Ph.D., ARNP, BC, FAAN.
Dr. Rice is a professor in the College of Nursing with experience as a psychiatric APRN, with several years of institutional, clinic, and private practice. Dr. Rice has been a valuable asset in developing this grant in distance educational technology and grantsmanship. |
Michele Balas, PhD, RN, APRN-NP, CCRN
Dr. Balas is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing. She has earned the John Hartford Building Academic Nursing Pre Doctoral Fellowship funded Doctorate in 2005 and John Hartford-Atlantic Post Doctorate in 2008 at University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Balas has expertise in delirium in hospitalized medically complex older adults. |
Janice Cunningham, BSN, RN, GNP-Student
Graduate Assistantship
Joyce Cunningham is a clinical service manager for ASERA Hospice Home Health. She has certification as a Hospice Nurse and is currently enrolled in the traditional GNP program. She is providing secretarial and administrative support. |
Instructional Technology Staff
John Barrier
Webmaster/IP Video
Mr. Barrier has extensive IP video and web development experience, developing marketing via web media, and acting as a resource linking GNP-MAP documents to the web for dissemination. |
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Rick Fisher
Instructional Technologist
Mr. Fisher is the master instructional technologist for simulation, the Gerontological Nursing Quarterly, and course module and IP video design engineering. |
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