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A mentor, Marjorie Roark, EdD, RN, encouraged PATRICIA KELLY, a maternal-child nurse and staff educator at a large university hospital, to pursue her master's in nursing education. Patty's interest in teaching became evident with her first staff position on a busy postpartum unit and increased as her nursing, career evolved. In 2006, she joined the faculty of Saint Xavier University (SXU) School of Nursing, which, a year later, was named an NLN Center of Excellence for exceptional and sustained efforts to create environments that promote student learning and professional development. Now vice president of the Alpha Omicron Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau ...