Faculty Bio

Julie Beck, D.Ed., RN, CNE

Associate Professor of Nursing

Education

• BSN, Bloomsburg University (1988)
• MSN, Villanova University (1993)
• DEd, Penn State University (2005)

Credentials

• Registered Nurse
• Certified Nurse Educator

Courses

• Perioperative Nursing
• Health Assessment for Professional Nursing Practice
• Nursing Concepts and Practice: Adults with Chronic Health Problems
• Leadership in Professional Nursing
• Advanced Physiology and Pathophysiology (MS in Nursing)

Research Interests

• Leadership
• Magnet hospitals
• Organizational behavior
• Nursing Externs
• Balance of practice

Recent Publications

• Beck, J., & Ruth-Sahd, L. (2013). The Lived Experience of Seeking Tenure While Practicing Clinically: Finding Balance in Academia. Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 32(1), 37-45.
• Beck,J. (2012). The Meaning of Voice to Experience?d Nurses in Magnet Hospitals. Lambert Academic Publishing: Saarbrücken, Germany
• Sahd, L. & Beck, J. (2010). Transformative Learning During a Nursing Externship Program: The Reflections of Senior Nursing Students, Penn State University, Middletown, PA.
• Ruth-Sahd, L, Beck, J., McCall, C. (2010) Transformative learning during a Nursing Externship Program: The reflections of senior nursing students. Nursing Education Perspectives, 31 (2), 78-83.

Service

• Columbia Wellness Center, Columbia, PA
• Parish Nurse, Lancaster, PA
• Clinical Practice, Adult Intensive Care Unit, Lancaster General Hospital