SAFE-T Center Clinical Education & Advanced Practice Coordinator
Penn State University
Fredonia, WI
Throughout her professional career Dr. Veerhusen has combined her devotion to nursing with her love of teaching. She has been a nurse for over 40 years, teaches nursing at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and has been a sexual assault nurse examiner for more than a decade. Currently, in her role as the Clinical Education and Advanced Practice Coordinator of the Penn State SAFE-T Center, she directly impacts the care of victims of violence through the development and educational support of rural forensic programs in the state. Previously, as a forensic nursing supervisor of a program that cared for over 650 patients annually, she led a team of 14 SANEs and was an active member of numerous community agency groups including local SARTS and community domestic violence and child abuse coalitions. She has developed and facilitated numerous SANE training sessions to audiences that include new and seasoned sexual assault forensic examiners, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, physicians, victim advocates, district attorneys, and law enforcement officers and detectives.
She is certified as both a SANE-A and a SANE-P. She has her graduate degree in Adult Education and her doctorate in Nursing Practice. She is also a certified online developer and instructor, has led several instructional design teams in both the corporate and health care setting, and has designed, developed, and delivered face-to-face, virtual, and online classes (both synchronous and asynchronous) based on the needs of the learning audience.
