Phone: 309.677.4974
Email: erickson@bradley.edu

Among the nursing courses Professor Erickson teaches at the undergraduate level, health assessment is one of her favorites; she enjoys witnessing students using newly acquired skills to complete an integrated health assessment on a patient.  She also enjoys interacting with students from different majors across campus in the "Men's Health Issues" course she teaches each fall.  Her area of clinical expertise is medical-surgical nursing, specifically caring for patients after surgery and those with diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disorders.   Her current research focuses on use of the transtheoretical model of change in assisting patients with self-management of diabetes mellitus.

In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she is one of the advisors for the Bradley Nursing Student Association and has judged several Greek contests on campus.

Background
Prior to joining the Department of Nursing in 2001, Professor Erickson taught in baccalaureate, associate, and diploma nursing programs in Illinois and Kentucky.  She is a contributor to several nursing textbooks.

Professor Erickson is married to Mike Erickson, a nurse anesthetist, with whom she two children, Daniel and Jennifer.  In her spare time, she enjoys playing the flute and piano, reads non-nursing literature, and cheering for the University of Michigan football team.

Degrees & Certification
Professor Erickson received her BSN (1977) from the University of Michigan, her MSN (1980) from Vanderbilt University and is completing her DNSc at Rush University.