Bethany Gerdin, PhD, RN, CNE

Job Title

• Associate Professor of Nursing
  Nursing, College of Arts and Sciences

Highlight

Bethany has 15 years of experience as a staff nurse in adult blood and marrow transplant (BMT). She completed her Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of MN in 2015. Her interests include ethics, end of life care, and surrogate decision making.

Started at Bethel

2013

Education

• Bethel University - B.S. in Nursing, 2007
• University of Minnesota - Ph.D. in Nursing, 2015

Biography

Bethany came to Bethel first as a nursing student in 2007 and quickly realized her dream of becoming a part of the nursing faculty. After working as a staff nurse in blook and marrow transplant, she started a PhD Program at the University of Minnesota in 2010 and joined the Bethel Nursing department as faculty in 2013. She has a taught a variety of courses, including adult medical-surgical clinical, skills labs, simulation, advance care planning, introduction to healthcare, and general education courses. She has written and presented research on the use of collaborative testing and is currently working on research focused on teaching strategies that promote safe practice in undergraduate nursing students. 

 

Certificates and Licenses

Certified Nurse Educator (CNE)

Research interests

End of life decision making, surrogate decision making, collaborative testing, safe practice teaching strategies

Teaching specialty

Adult, medical-surgical nursing, ethics