North Jersey Section 0304 Meetings
2006-2007 General Section Meeting Calendar

General Section Meetings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at the La Quinta on Rte. 46 in Fairfield unless other plans are made. Meetings begin at 6:00 PM with dinner at 6:30 PM and the program at 7:30 PM.

Professional Biographical Profile

Kathy Burke, Phd, RN

Professor of Nursing, and Assistant Dean in Charge of Nursing at Ramapo College of NJ. She has over 36 years of experience in nursing having served in a wide variety of positions over the years. As an educator, she has taught at the diploma, associate, baccalaureate, masters and doctoral levels. She has been a Senior Vice President of a local community based hospital, and later served as an Assistant Dean at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ. Since 2007, she has led the Nursing Programs at Ramapo College of NJ. Her clinical and academic expertise includes nursing informatics, leadership, performance improvement and program evaluation. She also serves as a nurse research consultant to two local Magnet Hospitals. As a consultant to the Centers of Excellence program of the National League for Nursing, she works with nursing programs to further develop their innovative programs. Dr Burke also assisted with the development of the Certified Nurse Educator exam of the NLN. She also serves as a Senior Examiner to the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program as well as being a site examiner for the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission. In her role as the leader of the Nursing Programs at Ramapo, she has been instrumental in working with the faculty to develop both local and international partnerships of benefit to the student population. Local partnerships include the partnering with local Magnet Hospitals to combine both academic and clinical expertise, resulting in positive outcomes for both the clinical and academic partners. On an international level, she has worked with faculty to develop a partnership with the University of Sierra Leone faculty of nursing to further model the globalization of nursing.

She received a BS from Rutgers University College of Nursing, and MA and PhD from New York University, Division of Nursing. She presents frequently on innovations in nursing education, technology in the curriculum, performance excellence and the partnering of academic and clinical institutions. She holds membership in Sigma Theta Tau, Phi Delta Kappa, and Omicron Delta Kappa. She has been indicated into the Stuart Cook Master Educators’ Guild at UMDNJ, and has received numerous Who’s Who citations. She has also received numerous grants in support of the Nursing Programs at Ramapo