About the Author
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A San Francisco Bay Area native, Audrey Berman received her BSN
from the University of California— San Francisco and later
returned to that campus to obtain her MS in physiologic nursing
and her PhD in nursing. Her dissertation was entitled Sailing a
Course through Chemotherapy: The Experience of Women with
Cancer. She worked in oncology at Samuel Merritt Hospital prior
to beginning her teaching career in the diploma program at Samuel
Merritt Hospital School of Nursing in 1976. As a faculty member,
she participated in the transition of that program into a
baccalaureate degree and in the development of the Master of
Science and doctor of nursing practice programs. Over the years,
she has taught a variety of medical-surgical nursing courses in
the prelicensure programs. She currently serves as the dean of
nursing at Samuel Merritt University (an affiliate of Sutter
) and is the 2014-2016 president of the California
Association of Colleges of Nursing.
Dr. Berman has traveled extensively, visiting nursing and
care institutions in Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Germany,
Israel, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, the Soviet Union, and
Spain. She serves on the board of directors for the Bay Area
Tumor Institute and the East Bay American Heart Association. She
is a member of the American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta
Tau and is a site visitor for the Commission on Collegiate
Nursing Education. She has twice participated as an NCLEX-RN item
writer for the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. She
has presented locally, nationally, and internationally on topics
related to nursing education, cancer, and technology in
care.
Dr. Berman authored the scripts for more than 35 nursing skills
videotapes in the 1990s. She was a coauthor of the sixth,
seventh, eighth, and ninth editions of Fundamentals of Nursing
and, with Shirlee Snyder, coauthor of the fifth, sixth, and
seventh editions of Skills in Clinical Nursing.
Shirlee J. Snyder graduated from Columbia Hospital School of
Nursing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and subsequently received a
bachelor of science in nursing from the University of
Wisconsin—Milwaukee. Because of an interest in cardiac nursing
and teaching, she earned a master of science in nursing with a
minor in cardiovascular clinical spet and teaching from the
University of Alabama in Birmingham. A move to California
resulted in becoming a faculty member at Samuel Merritt Hospital
School of Nursing in Oakland, California. Shirlee was fortunate
to be involved in the phasing out of the diploma and ADN programs
and development of a baccalaureate intercollegiate nursing
program. She held numerous positions during her 15-year tenure at
Samuel Merritt College, including curriculum coordinator,
assistant director—instruction, dean of instruction, and
associate dean of the Intercollegiate Nursing Program. She is an
associate professor alumnus at Samuel Merritt College. Her
interest and experiences in nursing education resulted in Shirlee
obtaining a doctorate of education focused in curriculum and
instruction from the University of San Francisco.
Dr. Snyder moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1990 and taught in the
ADN program at Portland Community College for 8 years. During
this teaching experience she presented locally and nationally on
topics related to using multimedia in the classroom and promoting
ethnic and minority student success. Another career rtunity
in 1998 led her to the Community College of Southern Nevada in
Las Ve, Nevada, where Dr. Snyder was the nursing program
director with responsibilities for the associate degree and
practical nursing programs for 5 years. During this time she
coauthored the fifth edition of Kozier & Erb’s Techniques in
Clinical Nursing with Audrey Berman.
In 2003, Dr. Snyder returned to baccalaureate nursing education.
She embraced the rtunity to be one of the nursing faculty
teaching the first nursing class in the baccalaureate nursing
program at the first state college in Nevada, which opened in
2002. From 2008-2012, she was the dean of the School of Nursing
at Nevada State College in Henderson, Nevada. She is currently
retired.
Dr. Snyder enjoyed traveling to the Philippines (Manila and
Cebu) in 2009 to present all-day seminars to approximately 5,000
nursing students and 200 nursing faculty. She is a member of the
American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau. She has been a
site visitor for the National League for Nursing Accrediting
Commission and the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges.
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