Audrey Poor Bear
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Audrey Poor Bear
Assistant Professor
School of Health Sciences: Nursing, Health Affairs
UJ Julian Hall Offices 213
Phone: 605-677-5508
Email: Audrey.PoorBear@usd.edu
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Bio:
Assistant professor of nursing at the University of South Dakota. Employed as registered nurse at Sanford Vermillion Hospital. Currently enrolled in PhD program at South Dakota State University with an expected date of graduation 2015.
Teaching Interests:
Complex Client Care (N286) and Community Health. Initiated Rosebud Clinical Field Experience practicum for USD nursing students to increase cultural competency.
Research Interests:
Transforming student nurses through intensive training in cultural competency and community clinicals. Also health care disparities. Another research interest is integrative therapies (meditation, energy work) in end-of-life care.
Education:
- MS, Nursing, University of Phoenix, 2004
- BS, Nursing, Augsburg College, 2002
- Associate degree in Nursing, Nursing, Kaskaskia College, 1992
- BA, Journalism, Western Kentucky University, 1983
- BA, Sociology, Western Kentucky University, 1983
Awards and Honors:
- Teaching and Learning Grant, Center for Teaching and Learning, USD, 2010
- Bush Grant , University of South Dakota, 2009
- Sister Cleopha Scholarship, Avera Sacred Hear Hospital, 2008
- Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society, Sigma Theta Tau, 2004
- Vera Mae Dar Nursing Scholarship, Mayo Foundation, 2001
- Regional Nursing Scholarship, Rend Lake College, 1991