Rate My Professor Brooke Bentley

Dr. Brooke Bentley serves as Chair and Professor in the School of Nursing at Eastern Kentucky University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky, an MSN as a Family Nurse Practitioner from Eastern Kentucky University, and a BSN from Eastern Kentucky University. In her leadership role, she oversees baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs, including those accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. Under her direction, the School of Nursing has pursued initiatives to address Kentucky's nursing shortage, including partnerships with organizations such as Humana, which invested $125,000 in the Humana Scholars Program in 2026 to support students, and Baptist Health, which provided hospital beds for training. The school has also enhanced its Clinical Skills Laboratory & Simulation Center through grant funding, benefiting student training.

Dr. Bentley's research specialization focuses on self-care management and dietary sodium restriction in patients with heart failure. Her key publications include 'Low-sodium diet self-management intervention in heart failure: pilot study results' (2012, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing), co-authored with D. Welsh and others; 'Theory-based Low-Sodium Diet Education for Heart Failure Patients' (2010, Home Healthcare Nurse), with D. Welsh, B. Bentley, and D.K. Moser; 'Demonstration of psychometric soundness of the Dietary Sodium Restriction Questionnaire' (2009, Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing); 'A review of methods to measure dietary sodium intake' (2006, Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing); 'Gender differences in adherence to the sodium-restricted diet in patients with heart failure' (2006, European Journal of Heart Failure), with M.L. Chung and others; and 'Factors Related to Nonadherence to Low Sodium Diet Recommendations in Heart Failure Patients' (2005, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing). She has actively participated in national nursing leadership efforts, joining leaders from 47 states in Washington, DC, for advocacy. Additionally, the School of Nursing under her chairmanship achieved a 100% NCLEX pass rate in a recent Associate of Applied Science in Nursing cohort.