Co-Chair, School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership | Associate Professor, Nursing | DNP, MS, RN, PHN, CNE | Online & On Campus RN, PHN, CNE

Chief Academic Healthcare Leadership Administrator | Program Director, Master of Healthcare Administration | Professor | DNP, MSN, RN, NEA-BC | Online...

Chief Academic Healthcare Leadership Administrator | Program Director, Master of Healthcare Administration | Professor | DNP, MSN, RN, NEA-BC | Online Tenured professor with over 25 years of nursing and healthcare leadership experience, dedicated to advancing the development of future healthcare leaders and graduate-level nursing professionals. Expertise in graduate-level instruction, healthcare leadership curriculum design, and accreditation processes that ensure program quality and compliance. Areas of specialization include healthcare policy, strategic planning, operational management, leadership theory, health informatics, and guiding students in completing rigorous scholarly capstone projects. Brings extensive executive leadership experience into the online learning environment to enrich academic engagement. Research interests encompass interprofessional collaboration, graduate curriculum innovation, competency-based education and outcomes for healthcare leaders, artificial intelligence, and the mitigation of burnout among healthcare professionals.

Dr. Ximena Suarez-Sousa’s professional background is in educational psychology. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of...

Dr. Ximena Suarez-Sousa’s professional background is in educational psychology. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Louisville (KY). Dr. Suarez-Sousa is currently a core faculty in the Educational Leadership doctoral program at Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM). Back in her native Peru, she conducted Applied Behavioral Analysis interventions to students with severe disabilities, provided counseling and training to families, as well as conducted research on parental stress, and validation of translated into Spanish psychoeducational assessment tools. From 2010 to 2019 she was faculty in the School of Teaching and Learning and served as the Special Education Master’s Degree Program Coordinator for 9 years. Dr. Suarez-Sousa also functioned as Co-Coordinator of Teacher Education Assessment and Accreditation for approximately 3 years as well as served as Site Visitor/Evaluator for the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). Her research interests include psychoeducational metrics’ norm development, validity and reliability studies, program impact studies, and adult learning orientation / online instructional practices. Most of her research is conducted within the quantitative research paradigm. Dr. Suarez-Sousa is the managing editor of The Interactive Journal of Global Leadership and Learning (IJGLL).

Graduate Nursing | Professor | PhD, MSN, RN-BC, CNE | Online