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Ileana Ramos

Title:	Director - Undergrad. Nursing
Office:	Warde Academic Center
Phone:	773-298-3757
Email:	iramos@sxu.edu
Department:	Nursing

Biography

Ileana Ramos is a graduate of SXU's MSN program for nurse educators, and what began as time in an adjunct faculty role and then as full-time faculty has led to a role as director of the undergraduate Nursing program. The journey to get there was not a straight line. After graduating from Arizona State University, Ramos began teaching in the Chicagoland area, taking over math and science classrooms to teach test prep to inner-city students preparing for their school entrance exams. She was then recruited to teach engineering and robotics in Los Angeles County, where she began her second job as an EMT. This led Ramos to pursue an accelerated nursing program in New York, after which she moved back home to Chicago and worked at Little Company of Mary Medical Center (now OSF), where she progressed from a new graduate nurse to a nurse preceptor, a charge nurse, and a clinical educator. Ramos then began her time at SXU after completing the master's program, returning to the classroom and combining her love of teaching and nursing to share with her peers and students.

Education

MSN in Nursing Education

Saint Xavier University

BSN

Utica College

B.S. in Anthropology

Arizona State University

B.S. in Biological Sciences

Arizona State University

Areas of Specialization

Cardiac Telemetry
Medical Surgical
Charge Nurse
Clinical Education

Certification/Licensure

Registered Nurse, Illinois

Memberships:

Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Alpha Omicron Chapter
Kappa Delta Chi Sorority, Inc, Lambda Chapter Alumna
American Nurses Association

Courses Taught

NURS 218: Concepts in Professional Nursing I
NURS 395: Concepts in Professional Nursing II
NURS 433: Holistic Care in Nursing Practice III
NURSP 221: Introduction to Clinical Practice
NURSP 332: Clinical Practice I
NURSP 434: Clinical Practice III
Nursing Simulation

Selected Honors/Awards

Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurse Educators Nominee
Transformational Leadership Award Recipient at OSF LCMMC
Innovator in Nursing Award Recipient at OSF LCMMC
Preceptor of the Year Award Recipient at LCMMC
Nightingale Award Recipient at LCMMC