Meet Our Writers

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Sandra Bassendowski, EdD, RN, Pammla Petrucka, PhD, RN, Bev McBeth, MEd, RN, and Marlene Smadu, EdD, RN

Sandra Bassendowski, EdD, RN, and Pammla Petrucka, PhD, RN, are assistant professors at the College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan. Bev McBeth, MEd, RN, is an advisor to the Native Access Program to Nursing (NAPN) at the Saskatchewan
Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Marlene Smadu, EdD, RN, is associate dean of the College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan.
Samuel C. Clemmons, RN

Samuel C. Clemmons, RN, is the diversity coordinator for Caldwell Memorial Hospital in Lenoir, N.C.
Sally Parker

Sally Parker is a free-lance writer living in Rochester, N.Y.
S. Sridevy, B.S.N., M.S.N., M.A., M.Phil.

S. Sridevy, B.S.N., M.S.N., M.A., M.Phil., is an assistant lecturer at  the Mother Teresa Post Graduate  and Research Institute of Health  Sciences' College of Nursing in  Pondicherry, India, and a research scholar at Siksha O Anusandhan University in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. Prasanna Baby is a principal at the Madurai Medical College and Hospital's College of Nursing in Madurai, Tamilnadu, India.
Ruth Carol

Ruth Carol is a Wilmette, Ill.-based freelance writer specializing in health care issues.
Roseanne R. Bensley

Roseanne R. Bensley is the assistant director of Placement and Career Services at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, N.M.
Rose A. Hazlett

Rose A. Hazlett is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, with over 30 years of combined military experience. She is also a nursing faculty member at El Centro College and a graduate research assistant in Texas Woman’s University’s Pioneering Nursing’s Future: Excellence through Diversity program.
Robin R. Roach, MPH, EdD, RD
Robin Farmer

Robin Farmer is a freelancer writer based in the Richmond, Virginia area.
Robbie Taylor-Simon, RN, MSN, FNP-C

Robbie Taylor-Simon, RN, MSN, FNP-C, graduated in December 2002 from the Family Nurse Practitioner program at Prairie View A&M University College of Nursing in Houston. She passed her FNP boards in May and now practices in a home health care program for geriatric patients.

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