Jeanne Widener

Biography

Jeanne Widener, Ph.D., RN, CCRN is an associate professor at the Marshall University School of Nursing. Since 2010, Dr. Widener has been responsible for teaching the courses NUR 323 “Nursing Human Responses III” and NUR 324, “Nursing Human Responses IV” (Junior level Medical-Surgical nursing). She is a registered nurse in the states of Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia and has been a critical care registered nurse (CCRN) since 1979. Dr. Widener received her BSN from East Tennessee State University in 1980, her MSN from Vanderbilt University in 1983 and her Ph.D. in nursing with a focus in psychophysiology from The Ohio State University in 2008. When she was working on her Ph.D., Dr. Widener worked as a research assistant at OSU with heart failure human and animal research. In 2011, Dr. Widener published her research on peripheral arterial disease and disability in the Journal of Vascular Nursing. Dr. Widener is the Phi Gamma Chapter Leadership Succession Chair for Sigma Theta Tau International Society. She is also a member of the National League of Nurses, the American Diabetic Association, the Nurses Christian Fellowship, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and serves as advisor for the Student Nurse Association of Marshall University. She previously taught nursing at Eastern Kentucky University and Kentucky Christian University. As an educator, Dr. Widener loves seeing those moments of understanding in a student after what she’s been teaching starts to make sense, making it all worthwhile.

Research Interest

psychophysiology