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Joy McConnell joined the Jacksonville University faculty in August 1985 after seven years of teaching nursing at Florida Community College at Jacksonville. She was tenured in 1990 and promoted to Associate Professor in 1994.

Although she was hired to teach Adult Health Nursing and Pathophysiology she has taught many courses in the undergraduate nursing program and supervised students in all areas of Adult Health Nursing, Community Health Nursing, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Nursing Synthesis. Her areas of expertise include hematology and oncology, pain management, research and weight management. She has also practiced as an advanced adult nurse practitioner in primary care settings and physician supervised weight management program.

She was a major creative force in the development of the RN/BSN program in 1991, the Navy Nurse Corps internship program in 2004 and has been instrumental in supervising nursing Honor students’ research projects and graduate capstone project for the last 20+ years. Her students have commented that her gift is to “reach each individual . . . and to discover the button that turns on the light in a student’s mind”. Her goals in teaching are to ignite students’ desire to learn, facilitate the learning/mentoring process, and help students to envision and achieve goals that they thought were impossible.

She received the Great 100 Nurses Award for demonstrated nursing excellence and contributions to the profession of nursing in Northeast Florida in 2003 and was nominated for the Jacksonville University Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005 and 2007. She is a member of the Florida Nurses Association and past president of Sigma Theta Tau International Lambda Rho Chapter at Large, the Nursing Honor Society.

ADN, Florida Community College
BA, University of North Florida
    Psychology
BSN, University of North Florida
MSN, University of Florida
    Adult Health Track, Academician
Graduate Courses, ARNP Certification, University of Florida

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