Julie De Haan, EdD, RN

Academics Faculty

Julie De Haan, EdD, RN

Email: j-de-haan@bethel.edu

Job Titles

Highlight

Julie has a wide range of nursing experience including PICU, adult medical ICU, outpatient services, private duty, clinic nursing, and telemetry. Research interests include collaborative testing, use of exam item best practices, improving exam items to develop clinical judgment.

Started at Bethel

2011

Education

  • Calvin College - B.S. in Nursing, 1988
  • Walden University - M.S.N. in Nursing Education, 2009
  • Bethel University - Ed.D. in Higher Education, 2021

Biography

Julie De Haan joined the Bethel faculty in 2011. She practiced nursing in numerous settings and locations prior making the career change to teaching. Previous nursing experiences include pediatric ICU, community development in Guatemala, medical ICU, surgical center, family practice clinic, and a telemetry unit. Julie has taught in various courses in the undergraduate nursing program and currently teaches pharmacology to sophomores and medical surgical nursing to juniors. She also serves as the undergraduate program director.

 

Awards

Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award - 2022

Publications

Witt, A; Gerdin, B.; De Haan, J; & Bergman, L. (2021) "A Comparison of Collaborative Testing and Alternative Test-Taking Methods on Content Retention in Baccalaureate Nursing Students” Nursing Education Perspectives

Presentations

“Scrambling the Classroom and Gamification in Pharmacology for Nurses: Engaging the Learner” AACN Transform conference. Nov. 30 – Dec.2, 2023

 “Scrambling the Classroom: Increasing student engagement and higher order thinking” Prime Time Faculty Excellence Award Presentation, Oct. 11, 2022

“Use of Best Practices in Exam Item Creation, Analysis, and Revision: Nursing Faculty’s Knowledge, Use, and Implementation Barriers and Facilitators” Nurse Think, Nuts and Bolts Conference, Aug. 11-13, 2022

 “Nurses as Expert Thinkers: Developing the clinical judgment of the next generation” Sigma Education Day, April 9, 2022

“Spiritual Rest”, Ignite Youth Group, Bethel Church, April 6. 2022

“Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)” Faculty Workshop, Bethel Nursing Department, November 5, 2021

“The SBAR of Sleep” Sigma Education Day, March 20, 2021

““Collaborative Testing’s Impact on Content Retention in Junior-Level Baccalaureate Nursing Students”  Nurse Tim Educator Essentials, Aug. 8, 2020

“Collaborative Testing: Content Retention and Student Perception” National League for Nurses, Education Summit, Sept. 14, 2018

Certificates and Licenses

Registered Nurse, MN license 

Professional Organizations, Committees, and Boards

Chi-at-Large Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International 2009 - present

Areas of expertise

Wide range of nursing experience including PICU, adult medical ICU, outpatient services, private duty, clinic nursing, and telemetry; teaches ECG class

Research interests

Julie's research interest include collaboartive testing, best practices related to exam item creation, evaluation, and revision, faculty development for exam item development, and the impact of sleep on resilience and well being.

Teaching specialty

Medical surgical nursing, Skills, Sleep