Stella Wischmeyer, RN, MSN

Health Science Education Department

Raritan Valley Community College

Office: H200

Phone 908-526-1200 ext. 8519

eMail: swischme@raritanval.edu

Biography

“Nurses should be their patients’ role models.”

I have been a practicing RN for 28 years in surgical oncology, cardiac care, hospice/infusion care, home health, and nurse education in St. Louis, MO, Houston, TX, New York, NY and the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania. I have presented on endovascular stent graft repairs at nursing grand rounds at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. I discovered while in Houston that my real niche was as an educator.

I am an ADN graduate from Belleville (Illinois) Area College in 1977 and received my BSN in 1986 from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. I recently graduated from the University of Phoenix with an MSN. I have completed my post-Master’s studies in the role of the nurse educator, and am nine hours short of an MA as an adult nurse practitioner. Achieving the MSN was the catalyst in beginning my ‘second career’ in academic nursing education.

I am a member of the American Nurses Association, the Oncology Nursing Society, and the newly elected secretary for my chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, the international honor society of nursing.

My husband and I live in Forks Township, just north of Easton, PA, with our two sister American Eskimo dogs and the usual house full of cats. I have a gorgeous 19 year old niece who plays the viola in the orchestra and is beginning her studies at Wellesley College as a pre-med student.

Courses Taught

NURS L11-06
Nursing Adult I Skills Lab
NURS C24-02 and NURS C24-06
Nursing of Families with Children Clinical
NURS C01-12X
Foundations of Nursing Clinical

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Created 9/7/2005, Updated 9/15/2006 by AKA