Bonnie Weaver Duldt-Battey, Ph.D., R.N.

Education:
BSN, Wagner College, Staten Island, New York
MSN, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Ph.D., University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

Current Interests include:
Interpersonal Communication in Nursing, Nursing Ethics, Critical Thinking, and Parish Nursing. Member of Sigma Theta Tau International.

Licensure:
Active RN licensure in New York, Virginia, and California, and Inactive status in Tennessee and North Carolina.

Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Battey holds degrees in nursing from Wagner College and Vanderbilt University, and an earned doctorate in Speech Communication and Human Relations from the University of Kansas, Lawrence. A professional educator, administrator, facilitator and consultant in fields of communication and health professions, Dr. Battey has had extensive experience as a professor and administrator in nursing undergraduate and graduate education in diploma, associate degree, baccalaureate and master’s programs. Having extensive experience in developing nursing programs, she has served as chair of nursing departments and initiated two new nursing programs; a program in associate degree nursing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and an RN completion baccalaureate program at Memphis State University. For ten years, Dr. Battey held a tenured faculty position at East Carolina University, serving as Professor and Assistant Dean of the Graduate Program. Her teaching assignments included adult health theory/clinical courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. These included physical assessment, nursing research, nursing theories. At the graduate level she has taught organizational leadership, curriculum development, teaching in nursing, and thesis/project research. For five years, she served as an Associate Adjunct Professor of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, George Mason University, she taught graduate level courses in the professional introductory to nursing undergraduate course, and the “capstone” senior course, as well as graduate level courses in ethics and nursing theories. Recently, at Samuel Merritt College School of Nursing, Dr. Battey taught undergraduate nursing research and the professional introductory courses, as well as on-line graduate courses in research.

Serving as a consultant, Dr. Battey has developed a wide variety of courses, workshops, and seminars in nursing, communication, critical thinking, spiritual assessment, leadership and team building, and she is actively engaged in writing and research as well.

In addition, Dr. Battey has served for many years as a National League of Nursing accreditation visitor for these programs. Author of numerous articles and three books, she has also written theories of nursing communication and nursing communication ethics. She has served in professional and civic organizations such as board membership of a community group developing a “free” clinic for the uninsured in Front Royal, Virginia, a volunteer parish nurse at several faith communities, and as a lay chaplain at INOVA Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia. She maintains membership in Sigma Theta Tau International, and she served on Arkansas Nurses’ Association Board of Directors and the Human Resource and Ethics Committee of the Virginia Nurses’ Association, as well as many other task groups and committees.