Phone:  309.677.2548

Email:  bonnieh@bradley.edu

Dr. Bonnie Hinrichsen teaches community-health nursing—theory and clinical, substance abuse (online), alcohol use and abuse, and graduate Leadership (online).

Background
Dr. Hinrichsen has been a member of the Nursing Department faculty since 1980.  Prior to that time she worked two years as a staff nurse in medical-surgical and psychiatric units.  She worked two years in public health nursing departments and taught nursing at Methodist Medical Center School of Nursing for six years.  She worked as a staff nurse at both White Oaks and Proctor Chemical Dependency Facilities.

Dr. Hinrichsen has conducted research for both the University of Illinois College of Medicine and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Center.  Her current research interest is in Aging/Gerontology.

She volunteers for the Center for Prevention of Abuse - Senior Strength, for WCBU - Radio Information Service, and serves as a Vice President of the Sam J. Stone B'nai B'rith Senior Housing Facility.

Degrees & Certification
Dr. Hinrichsen received her PhD in community health education from Southern Illinois University (1993), her MSN in public health nursing from the University of Illinois-Chicago (1978), and her BSN degree from the University of South Carolina-Columbia (1966).  She held a certification in Addictions Nursing from 1995-2000 and is currently certified in Gerontology.