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Fostering Academic Excellence

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As health care continues to evolve, our faculty and staff lead innovative, practice-informed nursing education that prepares students for the future of the profession. By staying current in teaching methods, simulation, and clinical technologies, faculty create engaging learning environments that support student success in a diverse, global health care system.

Through strong partnerships with higher education, health care organizations, and state agencies, we strengthen curriculum, expand experiential learning, and advance education that improves health and health care.

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Faculty and Staff
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Nursing Department
Associate Dean
Professor
Nursing Room 103/215
By e-mail appointment, unless otherwise indicated within a course

Associate Dean for the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Also teach in the Nursing graduate programs.

Der-Fa Lu
Nursing Department
Professor
272 Nursing Building
by appointment

I have 3 areas of teaching and research which are: care for older adults, nursing and health informatics and Healing Touch. When I have some empty space, you can find me digging dirt in one of my many gardens. My life long goal is to build healing and healthy environment wherever I go. 

Rachel Merkel
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Nursing Department
Department Co-Chair
Director of the Marshfield Site
Professor
UWEC Marshfield
Office 316
2000 West 5th Street
Marshfield, WI 54449
By appointment in person or virtual
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Nursing Department
Post-Licensure Clinical Agency Coordinator
Nursing Building, Room 279

Julie earned her associate's degree in nursing from Chippewa Valley Technical College in ̽Ƶ Claire, WI in 2019. She then got her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Viterbo University in La Crosse, WI in 2023.  She previously worked at UW-̽Ƶ Claire from 2013-2017 in Student Health Services as a Certified Medical Assistant.

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College of Nursing

Nursing 103
5 Roosevelt Avenue
̽Ƶ Claire, WI 54701
United States