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Dr. Mary T. Packard, R.N., C.S.
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Dr. Mary T. Packard, R.N., C.S.
Associate Professor of Nursing
Location: Student Union/Cafeteria - 238
Phone: 443-334-2179
Email Address: fac-pack@mail.vjc.edu
EDUCATION
B.S.N., Georgetown University
M.S.N., The Catholic University of America
Ph.D., University of Maryland
Live as if your life were a curriculum for others and balance that principle by realizing that every life you meet could be a curriculum for you." --Schubert
I have been engaged in the teaching and learning of nursing with students at the baccalaureate level for many years. I love bringing my students into my passion for caring with persons with psychiatric-mental health problems and struggles in interpersonal connecting. In the context of the precious nature of the nursing student-teacher relationship, students and teacher, indeed, are "curriculum for each other." In the classroom and clinical situations I join with the students in meaning-making and the discovery of new material through narrative writing and classroom observations.
In addition to teaching, I have enjoyed many years of advanced practice nursing--'being-with' patients in psychotherapy in private practice as well as with inpatient clinical work. My strong practice base opens up rich possibilities for reflection in the classroom.
My research and writing interests are led by my experience in teaching together with my students and allow for interpretive understandings of pedagogy and curriculum. My dissertation research was a hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry into the lived experience of 'being-with' in the nursing student-teacher relationship. I am pleased to be presenting a paper, Being in Teaching Together: Transformation through Poetry, at the annual fall meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Human Science in Memphis, TN.
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