Professor of Nursing
Division of Nursing Chair
Degrees
ADN, North Shore Community College
Bachelor of Science, Fitchburg State College
Master of Science, Sage Graduate School
Doctor of Philosophy, Duquesne University
Office: Aquinas Hall Room 210
Office Hours: Tuesday 2-4 pm
Phone: 845-569-3143
Email: Andrea.Ackermann@msmc.edu
Courses, Spring 2013
HLT 3040 Pharmacology
HLT 3041 Pharmacology for RNs
Bio
Andrea Dodge Ackermann PhD, RN, CNE is a Professor and Division
of Nursing Chair at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY. She
served as Director of Simulation and Clinical Learning for 4 years.
She completed her undergraduate studies in Massachusetts and
received an MS in Nursing Education at Sage Graduate School in
Troy, NY. During her 25 years as an RN working in the Boston and
Hudson Valley areas, she specialized in critical and post
anesthesia care.
Professor Ackermann completed her PhD through the School of
Nursing at Duquesne University where she investigated learning
outcomes in CPR using simulation for her dissertation. One of her
publications won “Research Article of the Year for 2010” from the
journal Clinical Simulation in Nursing.
She designed, developed, and managed the Nursing Simulation
Learning Center at Mount Saint Mary College. Professor Ackermann
also works as a consultant with international nursing associations,
local hospitals, nursing education programs, and architects in
developing nursing simulation centers and educational practices in
simulation. She serves as a peer reviewer on the Editorial Board
for Nursing Perspectives and Clinical Simulation in Nursing. She
currently serves on the Board of Directors for International
Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning as VP
Finance.
Professor Ackermann plans, as chairperson, to assist her faculty
to develop a nursing curriculum based on learning concepts and
experiential learning and to continue to develop simulation
education for nursing and inter-professional health care within the
academic, service, and distance education learning
environments.