Elizabeth Heavey, PhD, CNM, RN, is currently a professor and chairperson of graduate nursing in the School of Nursing at SUNY Brockport. She has practiced as a registered nurse, a certified nurse-midwife and an epidemiologist for more than thirty years. She is an expert colposcopist and a mentor for the ASCCP colposcopy program. She coordinates and supervises nurse practitioner students in the sexual and reproductive health clinic of the Hazen Center for Integrative Health. She teaches Pathophysiology for Advanced Practice Nursing, Using Information Systems and Analytical Methods, Community Based Epidemiology, Professional Writing for DNP, and Women’s Health Clinical Content in the FNP and AGPCNP clinical courses. In 2013, she was awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2016, she was awarded the SUNY Center for Online Teaching Excellence (COTE) Faculty Ambassador Award and serves as a COTE Fellow for New York State. In 2017, she was awarded the Faculty Advisement Award for Student-Faculty Mentoring and Engagement and has received the Faculty Influencer Award each year since its inception in 2020. Dr. Heavey is an early Open Educational Resource (OER) adopter and serves as an OER ambassador on campus. She is a leader in online and hybrid education initiatives and continuously develops online learning environments that foster student engagement and active learning. She is also a member of a faculty learning community focused on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to promote learning in educational settings. She has been exploring how to effectively utilize AI to support faculty in creating additional learning opportunities for students.
Dr. Heavey wrote and traditionally published Statistics for Nursing: A Practical Approach. It is a textbook designed to teach statistics in the context of nursing, currently in its fourth edition. It is being utilized by more than 130 nursing programs nationwide. It was the winner of Best Book of the Year from the American Journal of Nursing in 2018 and has been translated into Indonesian and Spanish with a global readership. Because OER options are now widely available, she is able to publish this new text with free access to help prepare all nurse practitioner students for their clinical readiness exam. She has assembled a team of expert nursing authors dedicated to the project, including faculty from nurse practitioner programs at SUNY Brockport, SUNY Upstate, and St. John Fisher University. The teamwork and collaboration of this group have been a true testament to the dedication of nursing faculty to promoting student success. When nursing students succeed, the benefit is felt by patients, communities, and the nursing profession as a whole. Dr. Heavey is incredibly proud of the nurse practitioner students we have the honor to work with every day and hopes this book will be a useful tool to help them reach their personal and professional goals.
