With over 19 years of higher
education teaching experience, Dr. Stephanie Pierce brings leadership and
knowledge of higher education and nursing issues to the board. She earned her
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Higher Education specializing in Higher Education
Leadership from Capella University, a Master of Nursing (MN) specializing in
Nursing Administration from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
(LSUHSC) and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from William Carey
University. Dr. Pierce is a Certified Nurse Educator through the National
League for Nursing. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses and is
serving as Program Director for several programs at the Louisiana State
University Health New Orleans School of Nursing (LSUHNO SON). Her administrative
duties include the day-to-day operations of three programs, the Career
Alternative Registered Nurse Education Program (CARE), RN to BSN and the Nurse
Educator MSN. Duties for the day to day operations includes, faculty, student
and course schedules, faculty evaluations, student leadership development,
applicant recruitment and analysis of applications for the Admissions
Progression and Graduation (AP&G) Committee, to name a few.
Dr. Pierce serves on several
committees for the SON: Quality Enhancement Committee, Academic Graduate and
Undergraduate Council, Faculty Organization, Administrative Council, AP&G
Committee and Curriculum Committee. She
also serve the SON on several task force: Diversity and Inclusion, CCNE Self
Study, Clinical Safety, NCLEX, Leadership Team, BSN Course Coordinators,
Academic Undergraduate Leadership Team, Student Grievance and Student
Complaint, DNP and DNS to PhD. Dr.
Pierce has several special assignments such as a Safe Zone trainer and
counselor; a founding member of the Louisiana Center for Promotion of Optimal
Health Outcomes: A Joanna Briggs Institute Center of Excellence as a systematic
reviewer, mentor and trainer. She coordinates and administers annual mantoux
testing for LSUHNO SON and Allied Health faculty each August and Influenza
vaccinations each October for the LSUHNO campus.
Dr. Pierce has had several research
and scholarship activities include grant writing and implementation, creating
enduring programs of education for the SON, participation on interdisciplinary
research teams, publishing in peer reviewed journals, serving as a peer
reviewer for national and international journals and publishing in non-peer
reviewed newsletters. She has contributed to White Papers for the American
Nurses Association (ANA) and has presented via podium and poster presentations
at local, state, regional, national and international conferences. She is a
member of two research councils for acute care healthcare facilities and serves
three journals as a peer reviewer. She is also a certified Quality Matters Peer
Reviewer.
Grant writing and grant
implementation have always been a passion. Dr. Pierce became involved with
grant writing and program implementation early in her educational career. She
has received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation- New Careers in
Nursing, supporting accelerated student academic success. She was the
Co-Investigator and Project Coordinator for the Cornerstone of Cultural
Competency during the Disaster Cycle (C3DC) grant funded by HRSA. Her team
created a unique model of nursing education delivery support by best practices
based on literature in both cultural competence and disaster competencies to
improve patient outcomes and address disparities in providing care to most vulnerable
populations. With additional funding from the Louisiana Board of Regents and
the LSU Leveraging Innovation for Technology Transfer, she led the revision of
the C3DC Program using the latest literature to revise each module with
professional voice over and graphics. Dr.
Pierce has lead the team in developing the first LSU program application
available for purchase and download using iOS, Android and Microsoft platforms.
Dr. Pierce has published manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals about the
program and findings, contributing to the field of knowledge to improve
disaster outcomes for the most vulnerable. She has presented the C3DC program
at several interdisciplinary national and international conferences and has recently
won the Southern Research Education Board (SREB) Pacesetter Award and the
LSUHSC Innovator Award for her contributions as an innovator in nursing
education.
Dr. Pierce assumed the role of
Principal Investigator and Project Director on a major HRSA funded grant to
Restore Primary Care for Underserved Elders in Post-Katrina New Orleans East.
Through this grant, the SON was able to open four nurse run ambulatory clinics,
one of which is still active and interdisciplinary, providing both primary care
and dental care integrating faculty and students from both the dental and
nursing schools. She is a Co-Investigator on an interdisciplinary grant team
studying nursing students’ knowledge retention of anatomical and clinical
procedures of the deltoid intramuscular injection.
Dr. Pierce strongly believes that
participation in professional organizations move a profession forward. She has
been a long time active member of the New Orleans District Nurses Association,
serving in several leadership positions and the Louisiana State Nurses Association,
serving as Director of Leadership and Education for numerous years. She has
served the Louisiana Nurses Foundation Board and Louisiana Nurses Political
Action Coalition. She has also worked at the national level with the American
Nurses Association serving on the Ethics Advisory Board, the Moral Resilience
Professional Issues Panel Advisory Committee and now will serve as ANA
Secretary and the Executive Board until 2021.
Dr. Pierce is a member of the
planning committee for the Faculty Professional Development Conference offered
through American Academy of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and a member of the
Southern Research Education Board (SREB) Council on Collegiate Education for
Nursing’s Membership Committee. She is a member of the Louisiana Council of
Administrators of Nursing Educators (LACANE), the National League of Nursing
(NLN) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Organizational
Leadership Network.
While serving on the Board of
Directors for Visiting Nurses Association of New Orleans, Dr. Pierce designed
and implemented the Visiting Nurses Association Healthlink Program. This
program was developed to support chronically ill elders with assessments and
education, in an attempt to decrease hospital readmissions. She has also served
on the Board of Directors for the New Orleans Council on Aging.
Dr. Pierce has been married to her
husband Craig Pierce for 44 years. They have two children, Craig and Courtney
and four grandchildren, Caylyn, Cayleigh, Oden and Jude. She hopes to contribute to the PAC Board using
her knowledge of leadership and education as well as her experience with
problem solving, board participation and state PAC initiatives to move the
profession of nursing forward for all registered nurses across the United States.
