Joan Dorman

Biography:

Joan Dorman has been a nurse for 47 years. She specialized in critical care and emergency nursing, and was an emergency department manager for several years. She began teaching nursing at Purdue University Northwest 20 years ago, and teaches the final critical care clinical, professional nursing ethics, and the capstone course.  This course involves partnerships with local hospitals to work on evidence based practice projects to help solve quality care issues. She is passionate about nursing ethics, serves on a local hospital ethics committee, has presented at an ethics roundtable at Oxford University, and authored a nursing ethics chapter in a leadership and management textbook.