Jewel Yoder

As of 2018, I am enrolled as a Goshen College DNP student and my scholarly project is in its implementation stage.  I am working to create a program that supports a seamless academic advancement in nursing from the Associate degree to the Master’s degree level with a focus on nursing leadership. I look forward to graduating in April of 2021 with my Doctorate in Nursing Practice.

I represent Goshen College in taking part of the Indiana Nursing Education Equity and Diversity Statewide grant (IN NEEDS) through the Indiana Center for Nursing. The focus is on increasing diversity in the nursing workforce in the state of Indiana; through holistic admissions, mentorship and funding. We will need more nurses in order to meet the demand for healthcare in our future aging population.  Of primary interest to me is how to increase diversity within nursing; which is not limited to ethnicity but expands to gender, sexuality, educational opportunities and  socio-economic status.

Another focus of mine for the 2020-2021 academic year is the revitalization of a mentorship program within the nursing department of Goshen College.

I wish to thank Dr. Laura Wheeler for her support as my faculty chair.

(20-21) In a year with a global pandemic nurses are called to the beside, we plan to offer an online part time track and continue to recruit for this program.  We have 16 online students who will complete this track of study in April of 2021.

(19-20) We have a Fall online and hybrid start at Glen Oaks for a total of 18 new students.  Additionally we have 24 students from three other existing cohorts who will graduation in 2020! We value our on-going practice partnerships with Goshen Health, Parkview Health System, Glen Oaks Community College, Ivy Tech Community College and Ancilla College.  Thank you to Devon Miller, Micah Towery, Kylee Rohatgi, Emily Plant, Todd Kirkton, Phil Waite, Jody Srof, and Gretchen Sauder for their teaching expertise and help in educating and getting to know all of our amazing RN to BSN students!

(18-19) Looking ahead to the coming academic year we start with 40 incoming students and will look to add 5 new starts throughout the year.  My goal is to house 100 students in the RN to BSN program and due to on-going supportive partnerships with Glen Oaks, Goshen Health, and Beacon Health this is very feasible.  I am looking  forward to our newest partnership with Parkview Health System for the 18-19 academic year.

(17-18)  This academic year the RN to BSN program has set a program record with 52 students graduating and another 40 students enrolled in the program!  We offer 4 different formats for education; face to face, online and as of 2018, hybrid at our Elkhart General and Glen Oaks locations.  For the 17-18 academic year we ran 10 different cohorts, 3 groups at Goshen College, 2 groups at Elkhart General,  2 groups at Glen Oaks and 3 online groups.  This program is run in part by our amazing adjunct faculty (13+) who help support our educational programming.  Thanks goes out to: Phil Waite, Devon Miller, Jamie Lauver, Renee Miler, Abigail Evans, Emily Plant, Jared Beasley, Anna Kridler, Jonathan Kirkton, Todd Kirkton, Linda Kline and Micah Towery for all you do to support and educate all these amazing nurses!

(16-17) My large project for the RN to BSN program is working with Capital Education, a learning management system, to offer our program in an online format. As this program continues to grow, I spend my time managing our four locations: Goshen College campus programing on Monday nights, Elkhart General Hospital location on Tuesday nights, Glen Oaks community college location on Thursday nights and our virtual campus.  This program has twenty one faculty involved in the provision of education; covering Nursing, Religion, Art, Peace and Justice studies, Psychology and Communications. For the 16-17 academic year we will have 40 individuals graduating! It has been a great year.  We have partnered with Goshen Health System in providing our RN to BSN completion program to their nurses, for the enhancement of care in our community.

For the 20-21 school year I will be teaching :

For the 19-20 school year I will be teaching:

NURS 331: Philosophy and Theories of Nursing

NURS 433: Research in Nursing (2 sections)

NURS 438: Community Health

NURS 211: Concepts and Strategies in Nursing

For the 18-19 school year I will be teaching:

NURS 331: Philosophy and Theories of Nursing (2 sections)

NURS 433: Research in Nursing (3 sections)

NURS 449: Leadership in Nursing (1 section)

For the 17-18 school year I  will be teaching:

NURS 331: Philosophy and Theories of Nursing (2 sections)

NURS 433: Reseach in Nursing (both online and face to face) (3 sections)

For the 16-17 school year I will be teaching the following courses:

NURS 331: Philosophy and Theories of Nursing (both online and face to face)

NURS: 447 Issues Seminar (a capstone project)

NURS: 449:  Leadership in Nursing

NURS 409: Leadership in Nursing and clinical (traditional program)

NURS 308: Gerontology (traditional program, shared with Joyce Hoffman)

For the 15-16 school year I taught the following courses:

NURS 331: Philosophy and Theories of Nursing

NURS 312: Clinicals (at Elkhart General) for one section of Pediatric Nursing

NURS 447: Issues Seminar

NURS 449: Leadership in Nursing

I am honored to have been awarded a President’s Innovation Grant for my scholarly work in the DNP program for the 18-19 and 19-20 academic year.  I also received the Mininger Grant for faculty development in 17-18, 18-19, and 19-20, which will also support my on-going academic growth, as I progress through my Doctoral program.  Thank you to the Nursing Department for assistance through the Nora Martin Scholarship for funding my education, as well as, your on-going support, as I pursue my terminal degree!

I am pleased to have been the recipient of “Nursing Excellence in Interdisciplinary Relationships” award in 2009 at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colorado. I was proud to be nominated two consectutive years for “Leader of the Year” award in 2010 and 2011, at Rose Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado.  I was also awarded the “Courageous Leader under Pressure” award in 2010 as Rose Medical Center opened its 24 bed level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit after being remodeled into private rooms for the tiniest patients.