Cheryl Brandt
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Bio
Dr. Cheryl L. Brandt joined the faculty at California State University, San Bernardino, in September 2016, as an Associate Professor in the Department of Nursing. Dr. Brandt earned a Diploma in Nursing from Burge School of Nursing and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Southwest Missouri State University, both in Springfield, MO, and a Master of Science in Nursing and PhD in Nursing from the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. Her clinical specialty is Medical-Surgical nursing; she is certified as an Adult Clinical Nurse Specialist by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and licensed as a Registered Nurse by the California Board of Registered Nursing.
Dr. Brandt has nearly four decades of experience as a nurse educator, teaching in undergraduate and graduate programs in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, and California. Her particular interest in nursing education is curriculum development and continuous improvement. Dr. Brandt’s research is on the experience of faculty, students, and new graduates of accelerated second-baccalaureate degree nursing programs, the use of self-regulation by older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and more recently, on students' experience using screen-based virtual simulation learning products.
Education
PhD, University of Minnesota; Master of Science in Nursing, University of Minnesota; Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State University); Diploma in Nursing, Burge School of Nursing (now Cox College)
Specialization
Dr. Brandt is certified as an Adult Clinical Nurse Specialist through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
She is also a Certified Nurse Educator through the National League for Nursing (NLN).
Research and Teaching Interests
Dr. Brandt has conducted research on the experience of faculty, students, and new graduates of accelerated second-baccalaureate degree nursing programs, as well as on the use of self-regulation by older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). She was also a co-investigator on a study investigating the efficacy of a discharge screening tool for patients in community hospitals. Her scholarship at CSUSB has focused on the use and development of virtual clinical simulations for nursing students; she has worked with a team of CSUSB staff and faculty to develop an immersive virtual clinical simulation with artificial intelligence elements to permit interaction between the virtual patient and the nursing student avatar. She also surveyed undergraduate nursing students on their experience using two screen-based virtual clinical simulations.