Rate My Professor Heidi Meyer

Heidi M. Meyer is an Associate Professor of Nursing and Program Director/Department Chair in the Nursing department at Gustavus Adolphus College, where she has been on the faculty since February 2008, promoted to Associate Professor in 2014. A 1998 Gustavus alumna, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Nursing (cum laude) from Gustavus Adolphus College, Master of Science in Nursing (Family Nurse Practitioner) from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 2004, Professional Certificate in Nursing Education from Bethel University in 2008, and Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing from South Dakota State University in 2019. Before joining Gustavus, she worked in clinical nursing roles including Public Health Nurse at Scott County Public Health from 2001 to 2002, Staff Nurse at Fairview Ridges Hospital in 2001, Visiting Nurse/Case Manager at REM Health from 1999 to 2001, and Staff Nurse at Desert Samaritan Medical Center from 1998 to 1999. She also served as Nursing Instructor at Inver Hills Community College in 2004 and 2006–2007.

Dr. Meyer’s research specializations include emotional intelligence, clinical reasoning, and innovative teaching strategies in nursing education; her doctoral dissertation examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and clinical reasoning in senior nursing students, and she holds certification in the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test. Key publications are “Understanding emotional intelligence and its relationship to clinical reasoning in senior nursing students: A mixed methods study” (Journal of Professional Nursing, 2023); “Enhancing clinical reasoning through simulation debriefing: A multisite study” with S.G. Forneris et al. (Nursing Education Perspectives, 2015); “Out of the SimLab and into the classroom: Using a Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) high-fidelity simulation scenario as an interactive classroom teaching strategy” (in Innovations in Nursing Education: Building the Future of Nursing, 2014); and contributions to multisite studies on simulation debriefing published in 2016. She has delivered numerous presentations at national conferences including the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Baccalaureate Education Conferences (2017, 2019), Midwest Nursing Research Society (2020), and International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (2013, 2014). Dr. Meyer has received competitive grants such as the Bremer Trust Fund grant for simulation equipment and serves in leadership roles including Faculty Senate representative, internal facilitator for the Nursing National Advisory Board, Public Health Minor Advisory Board member, and leadership in the Minnesota Association of Colleges of Nursing. She teaches courses across the nursing curriculum such as Public Health Nursing, Transitions to Professional Practice, Capstone Clinical, Research and Ethics, and Health Across Borders.