BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Illinois Wesleyan University’s Assistant Professor of Nursing Susan L. Swanlund has been awarded a State of Illinois Nurse Educator Fellowship from the Illinois Board of Higher Education.
The purpose of the Nurse Educator Fellowship Program is to ensure the retention of well-qualified nursing faculty at institutions of higher learning that award degrees in nursing.
Swanlund received a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Illinois Wesleyan in 1980. She went on to earn a master’s in nursing at Texas Woman’s University in 1988, and a doctorate in nursing at Saint Louis University in 1998. Before joining the Illinois Wesleyan faculty in 1995, Swanlund taught at the Mennonite College of Nursing in Bloomington, where she received the Dr. Kathleen A. Hogan Teaching Excellence Award. She also has experience as a staff nurse at the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis; in the operating room and post-anesthesia recovery room at Brokaw Hospital in Normal; and at Baylor University Center in Dallas. Swanlund later was operating room supervisor and then director of the Cataract Surgery Center in Dallas.