Michele R. Davidson, RN, Ph.D., CNM, George Mason University
Michele Davidson received an ADN degree from Marymount University
in 1990 and upon graduation began working in postpartum and the newborn
nursery in Washington, DC. Because of her interest in educating expectant
and new families, she began an education and consulting service providing
childbirth education classes, lactation consulting services, and newborn
care courses. During this time she also worked as a reproductive endocrinology/infertility
nurse while she obtained a BSN from George Mason University. Dr. Davidson
then attended Case Western Reserve University where she earned her
MSN and a nurse-midwifery certificate. She worked as a nurse-midwife
at Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington, DC, while completing
her PhD in nursing administration and healthcare policy from George
Mason University (GMU). Dr. Davidson began teaching at GMU in 1999.
Dr. Davidson maintains a part-time clinical practice at Women's Healthcare
Associates of Loudoun because of her strong belief that active clinical
practice is essential to provide students with current clinical and
critical-thinking skills. Dr. Davidson has developed an immersion clinical
experience for GMU students on a remote island in the Chesapeake Bay,
where she teaches community health nursing to students who reside in
the community. In 2003, she founded the Smith Island Foundation, a
nonprofit organization in which she serves as executive director. In
her free time, Michele enjoys spending time with her mother, gardening,
reading, and spending time at their home on Smith Island with her nurse
practitioner husband, Nathan, and their four young children, Hayden,
Chloe, Caroline, and Grant. Dr. Davidson recently received certification
as a Certified Forensic Nurse. Her research interests include maternal-newborn
and forensic nursing issues. |
Marcia L. London, University of Colorado
Marcia L. London has been able to combine her two greatest
passions by being both a nurse caring for children and families and
a teacher for almost 35 years. She received her BSN and school nurse
certificate from Plattsburgh State University in Plattsburgh, New York.
After graduation, she began her nursing career as a pediatric nurse
at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City, then moved to Pittsburgh,
where she began her teaching career. Mrs. London accepted a faculty
position at Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital Affiliate Program and
received her MSN in pediatrics as a clinical nurse specialist from
the University of Pittsburgh. Mrs. London began teaching at Beth-El
School of Nursing and Health Science in 1974 after opening the first
intensive care nursery at Memorial Hospital of Colorado Springs. She
has served in many administrative and faculty positions at Beth-El,
including coordinator for nursing care of children for 32 years. Mrs.
London maintains her clinical skills working in an urgent care and
after-hours clinic and doing undergraduate pediatric clinical supervision.
She obtained her postmaster's neonatal nurse practitioner certificate
in 1983 and subsequently developed the neonatal nurse practitioner
(NNP) program and the master's NNP program at Beth-El. She is active
nationally in neonatal nursing and was involved in the development
of the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Educational Program Guidelines.
She has contributed five chapters to various neonatal nursing texts.
Mrs. London is active in nurse practitioner education in general. She
was involved in the revision of the Core Competency for Nurse Practitioners
and Curriculum Guidelines for Nurse Practitioner Education, as a member
of the Education Committee of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner
Faculties, and participated as part of the Core Competency Validation
Expert Panel. Mrs. London has also pursued her interest in college
student learning by taking doctoral classes in higher education administration
and adult learning at the University of Denver in Colorado. She feels
fortunate to be involved in the education of her future colleagues.
Her teaching philosophy is that, with support, students can achieve
more than they may initially believe they are capable of achieving.
She believes in life-long learning and applying it to her nursing care
of clients as part of her faculty practice. Mrs. London and her husband
have two sons and one dog (Reilly, daughter by proxy). Her two sons,
Craig and Matthew, are involved in computer informatics, as well as
media arts and animation, and are more than willing to give Mom helpful
hints. |
Patricia A. Ladewig, Regis University
Patricia A. Wieland Ladewig received her BS from the College
of Saint Teresa in Winona, Minnesota. After graduation, she worked
as a pediatric nurse before joining the U.S. Air Force. After completing
her tour of duty, Dr. Ladewig relocated in Florida, where she accepted
a faculty position at Florida State University. There she embraced
teaching as her calling. Over the years, she taught at several schools
of nursing while earning her MSN in maternal-newborn nursing from Catholic
University of America in Washington, DC, and her PhD in higher education
administration from the University of Denver in Colorado. In addition,
she became a women's health nurse practitioner and maintained a part-time
clinical practice. In 1988 Dr. Ladewig became the first director of
the nursing program at Regis College in Denver and, in 1991, when the
college became Regis University, she became dean of the Rueckert-Hartman
School for Health Professions. Under her guidance, the Department of
Nursing has added a graduate program and the school has added three
departments: the Department of Physical Therapy, the Department of
Health Services Administration and Management, and the Department of
Health Care Ethics. Dr. Ladewig feels that teaching others to be excellent,
caring nurses gives her the best of all worlds because it keeps her
in touch with the profession she loves and enables her to help shape
the future of the nursing profession. When not at work or writing textbooks,
Pat and her husband, Tim, enjoy skiing, baseball games, and traveling.
However, their greatest pleasure comes from their family: son Ryan,
his wife, Amanda, and grandson Reed; and son, Erik, his wife Kedri,
and granddaughter Emma. |
