by Melody Gustafson EAST LIVERPOOL – Students and faculty in the nursing department have been seeing the face of a new colleague among their ranks lately.
Sara F. Omidi, RN, BSN, MSN (May 2008), came to teach at KSU in January and is teaching Therapeutic Use of Self and Nursing Agency III for the Associate Degree in Nursing.
Before joining KSU-EL, she spent nine years working as a registered nurse, and six of those were at Case Medical Center in Cleveland. She developed her experience in the Medical/Surgical/Transplant unit.
Omidi published “Adult IV Care and Maintenance,” among other titles, on the subjects of women’s leadership, cultural diversity in nursing, and infectious disease. She won the Nursing Clinical Excellence Award from University Hospitals of Cleveland in 2003, and was one of the top ten Best of the Best Nurses in Northeast Ohio selected by the Plain Dealer in 2005.
“I see nursing as a spiritual and rewarding career,” Omidi, also a KSU graduate, said. “Nursing faculty needs to be active in the scholarship of pedagogy and research in order to stay on top of their field of expertise so they can provide their students with the best possible education.”
Omidi lives in Chardon, Ohio with her husband, also a KSU professor, and has three daughters. Her 23-year-old daughter is on the verge of becoming an M.D. this spring, and the second daughter is a pre-medical major at Ohio State University.
