Dr. Dana Meadows is an Associate Professor in the Nursing department. She has been teaching nursing for the past 24 years and a practicing part-time nurse practioner for the past 20 years. Her education includes obtaining her RN at Ohio Valley School of Nursing, BSN at Wheeling Jesuit, MSN in nursing education and family nurse practitioner degree at Franciscan University, and her DNP at Chatham University. As an advocate of lifelong learning, Dr. Meadows is in the process of obtaining her lactation counselor certification and hopeful to continue on to obtaining a doula and midwife degree.

Her teaching philosophy is that every student is unique and each one requires a different approach to learning. Finding out the student’s best learning style is the key to adjusting teaching styles to meet their needs, which will provide the best learning experience for the student. Her courses taught include introduction to nursing, geriatrics, fundamentals of nursing, leadership and management, medical surgical nursing, mental health nursing, nursing care of children and her area of expertise is maternal newborn nursing.

Dr. Meadows lives in Bloomingdale, Ohio and she enjoys the small farm life. She is married to her husband, Doug, of 21 years, and has 4 beautiful children, 5 dogs, chickens, rabbits, a goat, and a cow.