Post-Master's Certificate in Nursing Education

Diane Stauffer came to the Xavier University College of Nursing in 2019, but she has over 30 years of experience in nursing and over 20 years of experience in nursing education. She is a graduate of the BSN program at Ohio State University, the MSN program at the University of Cincinnati (Burn and Trauma Specialty Track), and the DNP program (Doctor of Nursing Practice) at Case Western Reserve University. Her clinical experience in nursing includes medical-surgical nursing (especially coronary care), critical care, emergency nursing, and trauma. She was employed at TriHealth for over 30 years and served in several positions including staff nurse in the emergency department, clinical nurse specialist, trauma nurse coordinator, and faculty in the Good Samaritan College of Nursing and Health Science. Prior to that she worked as a transport nurse for the Christ Hospital Mobile Care Unit, and as a staff nurse in the emergency department and in medical-surgical nursing at Ohio State University.

Dr. Stauffer was previously an active member of the local and state Emergency Nurses Association, and served as an Ohio delegate to the national assembly for seven years. She has fulfilled many leadership roles in nursing education in relation to curriculum development, program evaluation and outcomes, faculty professional development, advisory board service, policy development, and steering committees for nursing program accreditation.

Throughout her career in associate and baccalaureate education, Dr. Stauffer has taught a variety of courses including medical-surgical nursing, acute care/critical care, pathophysiology, role transition, professional issues, holistic health, nursing research, and quality improvement. At Xavier University, she has taught in the undergraduate BSN program, the MIDAS program, and the MSN program. She has also served as a faculty mentor in the DNP program and is currently the Coordinator for the Education Track in the MSN program.

Dr. Enslein EdD, MSN, RNC-OB, CNE is a Certified Nurse Educator who earned her doctoral degree from Northern Kentucky University, a MSN from Ball State University, a BSN at Wright State University, and an ADN at Miami University. Her research areas of interest are methods of promoting nursing students’ clinical judgment/reasoning, nursing informatics, infant mortality and public health nursing, and the lived experience of prelicensure nursing students. She has many years of experience as a registered nurse in the clinical setting in labor and delivery and the NICU in both Ohio and Texas. She has been in the nursing faculty role since 2012. She received the Case Competition award at the 2017 International Leadership Association annual conference in Brussels for her work in Infant Mortality. She is a member of the Beta Rho Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International.

Dr. Wiles DNP, RN, CNL, earned a BSN at Spalding University in 1990, an MSN from Xavier University in 2008, an MEd from Xavier University in 2009, and a DNP in educational leadership from Case Western Reserve University in 2016. Previous to entering academia, she worked ten years in medical-surgical nursing and eight years in critical care. Her research area of interest is promoting nursing students’ clinical judgment to enhance patient safety and quality care through the use of various teaching strategies, including high-fidelity patient simulation.
She has many years of experience as a registered nurse in the clinical setting. She began her career at Deaconess Hospital in Cincinnati, where she spent ten years as a staff and charge nurse in oncology, neurology, and medical-surgical nursing. She spent the next eight years working at Bethesda North Hospital in the ICU/CVRU and PICC team, during which time she was ACLS and CCRN certified. During this time she was well-known as a clinical leader with the ability to communicate and collaborate with all members of the interprofessional team, in order to promote patient safety and quality of care. She has been in the nursing faculty role for several years. She received the Miriam Agnes Payne Award in 1990. She is a member of the Omicron Omicron Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International.