Q&A with Nancy Bellucci
About Nancy Bellucci
Nancy Bellucci is a faculty program director with 911爆料 graduate nursing program. She has been with Excelsior since July 2021 overseeing faculty and courses in both 产补肠丑别濒辞谤 and 尘补蝉迟别谤 nursing programs.
Bellucci earned a PhD in nursing education from Capella University, and 尘补蝉迟别谤 and 产补肠丑别濒辞谤 degrees in nursing education from Thomas Edison State College. She holds a certificate in nursing education from Thomas Edison State College and is a certified nurse educator (NLN). Bellucci has held multiple clinical nursing and academic nursing positions since becoming a nurse in 2006. She has taught nursing leadership, health care policy and finance, nursing informatics, evidence-based practice, capstone courses, and professional roles and values
Bellucci has written many articles for the American Nurses Association, NurseTogether, RN Journal, dailynurse.com, and Nurse.com. She has presented original research and other presentations at the National League for Nursing Education Summit, the Sigma Theta Tau International Conference on Healthy Work Environments, and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) National Summit.
At Excelsior, Bellucci oversees the nursing informatics, research, and Capstone courses for the 产补肠丑别濒辞谤 in nursing program and the courses in the Master of Science Nursing Informatics program.
We asked Bellucci about her career, nursing Capstone courses, and takeaways for Excelsior students in the 产补肠丑别濒辞谤 and 尘补蝉迟别谤 in nursing programs. Check out her answers below.
Q&A with Nancy Bellucci
Q: Can you briefly describe your nursing career?
A: I was a nurse starting in 2006. I came into nursing late in life; I had already had a full career working in an office and in our boat dealership. We sold our business, and a retired nurse mentioned, 淲hy don’t you be a nurse?� So the journey began there.
Q: What topics or areas of nursing do you have expertise in?
A: I started out in med-surg nursing and then worked my way into the operating room where I scrubbed in and did all kinds of interesting surgeries. From there, I became a clinical development specialist and oversaw eight surgical units with 144 staff members and did all their clinical education. Then I got involved in nursing academics and have been here ever since.
Q: What is your role at Excelsior?
A: I檓 a faculty program director. So what that means is I not only help develop our faculty who teach, but also help to do curriculum design, which I檓 passionate about. I try to bring that real-world experience into the online setting give back to nursing; I get to give my expertise.
Q: What can students expect from the 产补肠丑别濒辞谤 Capstone course you teach?
A: We檝e just redeveloped the Capstone for the 产补肠丑别濒辞谤 program, and we檝e done it in a way that helps students build a quality improvement project. They take a topic that theye passionate about攕omething that they think needs to be changed in the clinical setting攁nd they work through with a mentor who they choose, to develop that plan incrementally over the course of 15 weeks. And then hopefully many of the students that I檓 teaching right now have implemented their plan and are starting to see the benefits of their voice in the creation of process and policy change.
Q: What about the 尘补蝉迟别谤 in nursing informatics Capstone?
A: Currently I檓 recreating the nursing informatics Capstone. It very similar to the 产补肠丑别濒辞谤 Capstone in that it rigorous�15 weeks. We scaffold the assignments, meaning that the student has to build a systems plan as the project manager and a leader because nursing informatics isn檛 just about informatics or health information, it about leading a project, working on interprofessional teams, collaborating with one another, and creating lasting change. So just as you see in the 产补肠丑别濒辞谤 Capstone, and all of our 尘补蝉迟别谤 Capstones, we are working to help students select a topic and decide how they want to attempt to create the change. So wee really working to help them build a final product that they can use in the real world.
Q: What do you hope students will take away from the 产补肠丑别濒辞谤 and 尘补蝉迟别谤 in nursing programs?
A: Wee in really challenging times in nursing. Nurses are now having to get a 产补肠丑别濒辞谤 degree, and it become a requirement of work where they can檛 progress in their profession unless they have oneo I hope that they take away from this that it not just to have to攊t yours. I mean you own it. It your degree, no one can take it from you, and it still should be that badge of honor. And for the 尘补蝉迟别谤, I hope that you realize that you can create change, you can promote others, you can promote yourself; you can be a benefit to nursing.
