Katherine Bloompott

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Nursing, Illinois State University
M.S. Nursing Education, University of Phoenix
BSN, Methodist College of Nursing

Biography

Dr. Bloompott began her nursing career in 2005, working on an intermediate cardiac telemetry unit. On this unit she learned that she has a passion for teaching, patients and nursing students alike. She embarked on her journey to become an educator in 2010, at which time she accepted her first higher education teaching position. Since then, Dr. Bloompott has educated nursing students in the classroom and in the clinical setting to prepare them for the day they will provide patient care as a registered nurse. She has taught for the last 12 years in undergraduate nursing and has recently transitioned to graduate nursing, helping to prepare future advanced practice nurses, nurse leaders, and doctors of nursing practice.

Hobbies

Dr. Bloompott loves to travel. She has been to a few different countries, with her favorite international trip being to Japan. Other hobbies include reading/watching documentaries, reading/watching/listening to true crime series, and she loves to try new, culturally diverse cuisines.

Teaching

During her tenure in higher education, Dr. Bloompott has taught medical surgical nursing, mental health nursing, foundational nursing, population health nursing, personal/community health in nursing, transcultural health in nursing, palliative healthcare, informatics in nursing, evidenced-based practice in nursing, health policy in nursing, and nursing theories.

Her teaching philosophy: Nurturing and caring are at the core of who she is. She has spent her adult life honing these attributes and intertwining them into her nursing practice and her role as a nurse educator. She believes in nurturing students’ dreams of becoming nurses, guiding them through the sometimes-tumultuous process of nursing school. She believes it is her duty as an educator to focus on meeting the needs of her students, to encourage students to meet the standards of a rigorous nursing program, and to provide them with a rich learning environment that promotes intellectual and emotional development. As a nurse educator, it is her duty to ensure she provides an education that includes the nurse code of ethics to ensure students are competent in providing safe, ethical, and equitable health care to the communities they serve.

What she loves about teaching: Nursing and higher education are both rewarding professions and she loves that she gets to be a part of both while shaping the future of nursing. Every semester Dr. Bloompott is amazed at how much her students have an impact on her life, and over the years they have helped shape who she is as an educator. She loves that students trust her enough to allow her to see them during some of the most vulnerable times in their lives. College is a new life transition, which can make students feel vulnerable, and knowing she is helping them to work through this vulnerability and that she is helping to shape their future is one of the most rewarding aspects of being an educator. Nursing is a special profession, and the bond nurse educators develop with nursing students is one that she treasures and will always hold near and dear to her heart.

Scholarship

Topics: LGBTQIA+ in nursing curricula, appropriate LGBTQIA+ communication by health care providers, understanding implicit biases, and critical conversations in nursing students and new graduate nurses.

Service

Chair of Continuing Education and Faculty Development committee (nursing department), member of Bradley University Office of Sponsored Program Committee, member of Bradley University Virus Response Team, member of Committee on the Use of Human Subjects in Research (CUHSR)

Licensures and certifications

Registered Nurse