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Research Links for Jane Kirschling Jane Marie
Kirschling, R.N., D.N.S., came on board August 14, 2006 as the
new dean of the College of Nursing.
Kirschling is former dean of the University of Southern Maine
College of Nursing and Health Professions. She served as chief
academic officer of the College, which includes undergraduate
and graduate nursing programs, and undergraduate programs in
health sciences, radiation therapy, recreation and leisure, and
sports medicine.
Kirschling previously served as associate dean at the
University of Rochester School of Nursing and Oregon Health
Sciences University School of Nursing, where she provided
academic oversight for baccalaureate, master’s post-masters, and
doctoral nursing programs; oversight of student affairs and
office of evaluation; recruitment of academic and clinical track
teaching faculty, and evaluation of assigned faculty.
A psychiatric nurse, she has published numerous academic
research papers on the experience of terminal illness among
patients and caregivers and the grief process, among other
topics.
Kirschling completed the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse
Fellows Program in 2003, and the Harvard Institutes for Higher
Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, MLE Management
and Leadership in Education in 2001. She is a reviewer for the
Journal of
Nursing Education.
She earned her D.N.S. from the Indiana University School of
Nursing with a specialty in psychiatric/mental health nursing.
Her M.S.N. is from the Indiana University School of Nursing as well,
with a specialty in community mental health nursing. She earned
her B.S.N. from Viterbo College in LaCrosse, WI.
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