Susan Long Murray, MSN, RN, ANP
She is a Lecturer whose academic master's preparation is in both Nursing Education and Advanced Clinical Practice through Old Dominion University. She is an adult nurse practitioner who sees both adult and geriatric patients in a private medical practice in addition to her teaching responsibilities and clinical hospital rotations with nursing students.
She has sophomore, junior and senior nursing students in clinical settings: including medical-surgical units, health assessment lab, a rehabilitation hospital and brain injury camp. She precepts and mentors graduate students in either classroom lecture or clinical instruction. She teaches Gerontology and health assessment lab.
She is active and involved in many other areas of nursing and health care as well. She is currently the Chairman of the Board for Hampton Roads Specialty Hospital and serves on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Nurse's Association, District 4 in the Hampton Roads area. She attends the VNA Legislative Day at the General Assembly each year with both senior classes. She is on the Global Nurse Education committee for the Physician's for Peace and served as Gala chairperson for the School of Nursing's 40th Anniversary. She serves as Co-Director for the Nursing Alumni Association Chapter @ ODU.
Her interests include: critical thinking, legal and ethical dilemmas in health care, legislative issues and individual empowerment. She enjoys gardening, windsurfing, downhill and cross country skiing when not working.
She is very proud to have been recognized as "Most Inspiring Faculty" at Graduation 2006 by a senior student holding the highest GPA in the College of Health Sciences; nursing student, Lorri Jones. She was a committee member of the group receiving the SON's National Award from the John Hartford Foundation- "Infusing Geriatrics into the Curriculum", 2006. The Nursing Advisory Committee from the School of Nursing nominated her for the Excellence in Teaching Award, presented by the College of Health Sciences in 2007.
She started in Western New York State, a small village called Hamburg; lived and grew up in exotic places such as Turkey and Japan; and finds one of her greatest challenges is to learn other languages. She enjoys a job where she has the best of both worlds: academics and clinical practice with students and various patients.