Jan McCoy Author

Marion G. Anema, PhD, RN, most recently served as Educational Resources Director (Joint position with Mid America Learning) and Texas Education Resources to consult and develop Distance Education Programs with institutional partners. She was also Chief Academic Officer at Mid America Learning to manage and implement nursing programs with institutional partners. Previously she held administrative and faculty positions as Associate Director, Nursing Programs, College of Health Professions, Western Governors University. Faculty Chair, Walden University, Dean, School of Nursing, Tennessee State University, and Assistant Dean, Texas Woman's University, Dallas. She holds certificates as an online instructor, in case management, online quality management, and intensive Bioethics (Georgetown University). Her scholarly articles have been published in DCCN, JONA, Nursing, J of Nursing Education, Nurse Educator, International Nursing Review, Computers in Nursing, J of Continuing Education in Nursing, among others. Dr. McCoy and Dr. Anema published a book, Competency-Based Nursing Education: A Guide to Achieving Outstanding Learner Outcomes (Springer, 2010). They continue to provide consulting services for nursing programs involved in curriculum development/revision and/or program accreditation processes.

||Jan McCoy, PhD, RN, held early career roles as a school nurse, flight nurse, and cardiac cath circulating and scrub nurse. For the majority of her nursing career, she has held nursing appointments at Central Wyoming College (1986-1999), including Chair & Director, Nursing Faculty, Chair, Prof/Tech Div & AH Division, Dir, Distance Education/Lifelong Learning. More recently, Dr. McCoy has served as nursing faculty at Walden University, Individual Service Coordinator, Wyoming Dept of Health, and Independent Contractor & Consultant for Sylvan Learning Systems (2003-2006), as well as interim Director of Nursing Programs & Mentor, Western Governors University, Salt Lake City, Utah (2006 - 2