Sandra DeBella Bodley, RN, EdD

Emeritus Professor of Nursing
email: DeBella@sonoma.edu

Courses for Fall 2006

N405 – Community Health Clinical

N535 – Graduate Residency in Nursing Education

Brief biography

I received my BSN from the University of San Francisco, my MSN in Community Health from San Jose State University, and my Ed.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Education in Organization & Leadership with an area of interest in Health Care Policy and Nurses' Participation in Health Care Planning and Policy Development at the Local, State and National Level.

I joined the SSU nursing faculty in 1975; my clinical areas are community health nursing with special interests in rural health, cultural diversity and service learning. I retired in 2004 after serving as interim Director of Nursing at Santa Rosa Junior College for a year. I am continuing to teach on an as-needed basis at SSU, and I do educational consulting for nursing programs in California.

I’m a healthcare activist. I have served on many boards and committees in Sonoma County, including the Sonoma County Health Alliance in 2000, the North Bay Hospital Council, the Sutter Medical Center board of trustees for 10 years, and the Northern California Center for Well-Being board of directors.

I've a 26-year-old son and two step-daughters, and I'm the proud grandmother of five -- Elizabeth (13), Jamie (10), Rebecca (7), Isabella (6), and Colton Jack (4).

Our family lost our niece Deora Bodley in the crash of United Flight 93 in Pennsylvania on 9/11.We have become involved with an organization called September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.

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