Faculty Profile

Patricia Kershaw

Patricia Kershaw

Professor

Division of Nursing

DNP; RN

Patricia Kershaw started her nursing career 26 years ago as a second-generation nurse, with a wide variety of experience. Kershaw started as a midwife’s assistant in the Santa Cruz mountains, then in surgical intensive care, in cardiac intensive care, in diabetes management, and finally in parish nursing. Patricia Kershaw is Associate Professor of Graduate Nursing at Indiana Wesleyan University.

INTERESTS
  • Spiritual health
  • Church elder
  • Health promotion, disease prevention
  • Diabetes management
  • Parish nursing
DNP
Nursing Leadership and Administration

Governors State University , 2013

MN
Nursing Administration

Lewis University , 2002

BSN

Olivet Nazarene University , 1994

ADN

Kankakee Community College , 1990

Books:

Heinze, Sylvia B., Kristina M. Currier, Susan E. O. Draine, Debra J. Drake, Barbara L. Hulsman, and Patricia Ann Kershaw. Biblical Insights for Nursing Education & Practice. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2020.

Peer-reviewed journal articles:

Horton, Sandra L., Debbie J. Drake, Patricia A. Kershaw, and Nancy A. Murray. “The Academic Portfolio: Validation of the Learning Journey.” Journal of Nursing Education and Practice 9, no. 11 (2019): 26. https://doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v9n11p26.

815-922-5345

patricia.kershaw@indwes.edu