Ruth Anne Kuiper, PhD, RN, CCRN

Faculty Chair

Chair Prelicensure Council

Associate Professor

Diploma Mountainside Hospital School of Nursing, New Jersey

BSN Excelsior College, New York

MN University of California at Los Angeles

PhD University of South Carolina, Columbia

Professional Information

Received a Diploma in Nursing from Mountainside Hospital School of Nursing in Montclair, New Jersey in 1976. Practiced as a coronary care nurse for 8 years while attending Excelsior College, Albany, New York. Received a bachelor of science degree in nursing in 1987. Moved to Los Angeles, California and continued to work as a critical care nurse. Attended the University of California at Los Angeles and received a Masters Degree in Nursing, as a clinical specialist in cardio-pulmonary nursing in 1989. Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and worked as an educator at Methodist Hospital School of nursing. Moved to Charlotte, North Carolina and worked as an educator at Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing. While living in Charlotte, attended the University of South Carolina, at Columbia and received a Doctorate of Philosophy in Nursing in 1999. Currently an Assistant Professor at Winston-Salem State University in the Department of Nursing. Instructional and clinical expertise is in the area of Adult Health, specifically critical illness. Research expertise is in the area of clinical reasoning, specifically fostering cognitive and metacognitive thinking at all levels of nursing practice to promote clinical reasoning.

Publication

Kuiper, R. A. (2005). (Accepted September 2004) Self-regulated Learning during a Clinical Preceptorship: The Reflections of Senior Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Nursing Education Perspectives, November/December 2005.

Kautz, D. D., Kuiper, R. A., & Pesut, D. J. (2005). Promoting clinical reasoning in undergraduate nursing students: Application and evaluation of the Outcome Present State Test (OPT) Model of clinical reasoning, International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship. 2(1) 1-21.

List Honors received:

Faculty of the Year award 2004-2005 for Master Teacher and Reseacher

ITSD Innovations award 2004-2005 for technology research

Friends of UNCW Grant for purchase of ventilator for School of Nursing

simulation lab

Contact Information

Office: Friday Annex 132
Phone: (910) 962 - 3343
Email: kuiperr@uncw.edu