Cindy Ford, Ph.D., APRN, FNP-BC, CNE

• Ph.D., Texas Tech University
• MSN, West Texas A & M University
• BSN, West Texas A & M University
• RN, Methodist Hospital School of Nursing

• Posted in the Department of Nursing

• BSN Leadership I
• BSN Professional Role Development
• MSN Research & Statistical Methods
• MSN Leadership & Management Skills
• MSN Applying Best Practices in Healthcare
• MSN Global Culture & Health: Honduras
• Research Poster Symposium

Cindy Ford has been faculty in the department of nursing since 1996. For the academic year 2009-2010 she will be a full time faculty with the rank of Visiting Professor and Director of the Partnership Program. Dr. Ford teaches and assists with courses at the graduate and undergraduate level in the department of nursing. Her dissertation title \"Effects of instructional strategies to meaningful learning and intrinsic motivation of senior nursing students\" reflects her passion of excellence of instructional strategies and nursing education. She has presented on applications of her dissertation to multiple groups of nurse educators in the United States. Dr. Ford is a long time resident of West Texas. She and her husband Chris have three grown children,a daughter-in law and son-in-law who they love spending time with. She loves to travel, read biographies and historical fiction, walk and ride bicycles when she has the time.

• Actively working for the Partnership with the Covenant School of Nursing
• Abstract acceptance for two posters and two paper presentations Spring/Summer 2010
• Acceptance for Writing Conference/Indianapolis, May 2010
• Participation Faculty trip to Honduras, April 2010