Beginning with the current academic year, we are privileged to welcome several new faculty members. Each brings impressive credentials, a strong commitment to nursing education and a desire to inspire our students to make a difference in health care.

Maureen Hillier, D.N.P., R.N., C.C.R.N., C.H.S.E. and a 1987 URI nursing alumna, is an assistant clinical professor and simulation educator. Maureen led simulation education at Boston Children’s Hospital and remains a Certified Critical Care Nurse in the Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit. Maureen holds a doctorate from Regis College and presents research on nurses’ experiences in end-of-life scenarios around the world.

Beth Anne Jalbert, M.S., R.N., C.P.N.P., lecturer. She is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner who has been part of our community as clinical adjunct faculty and laboratory instructor for physical assessment. Beth Anne has her master’s and bachelor’s degrees in nursing from the University of Rochester.

Sara Murphy, Ph.D., lecturer, teaches multidisciplinary courses in the Honors Program and the Program of Thanatology in the College of Nursing. She earned her doctorate in English at URI and has published and presented at numerous conferences on topics involving suicide, loss, grief, sexuality, gender and radical pedagogy.

Betty Rambur, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., former dean of Nursing and Health Science at the University of Vermont, holds the College of Nursing’s Routhier Endowed Chair for Practice. Betty has long worked to reform health care payment systems and address disparities in the quality of and access to care. Betty has a doctorate from Rush University and authored the textbook Health Care Finance, Economics, and Policy for Nurses: A Foundational Guide. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.