Contact Information:

Telephone:         (619) 849-2277
Email:                lwagner@pointloma.edu

Teaching Focus:

• Senior Community Mental Health Nursing
• End-of-Life Nursing Care
• Perspectives in Death and Dying for All Majors

Education:

• Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing - Diploma in Nursing
• Kansas University, Kansas City, Kansas - BSN
• UCLA - MN in Adult Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
• USC - Post graduate work in gerontology and end-of-life care

Clinical Background/Academic Focus:

• Hospital Nursing - Medical Surgical and Pediatrics
• Community Mental Health Nursing/Counseling/Stress Management
• Focus on HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, end-of-life care and wholistic health care in inner-city settings.
• Taught at Azusa Pacific University and Howard University

Research/Publications/Presentations include:

• "Critical Issues in End-of-Life Care" - developed and presented 16-hour course that included nurses from the community as well as undergraduate students. Spring, 2003 and 2004, 2005, 2006
• "Preventing, Assessing and Treating Burnout in Nurses Providing End-of-Life Care" - Presenter for Continuing Education at Scripp's Mercy Hospital, Fall, 2002
• Summer Scholar for Wesleyan Center, 1997, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA
• Smith, Lois E. & Lunsford, Beverly K. Edited by Gertrude McFarland & Mary Durand "Mental Health Needs of the Homeless", Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia. 1991
• Smith, Lois E. "Meeting the Health and Mental Health Needs of the Homeless", Presented to and published by the American Public Health Association, March 1986
• Smith, Lois E. & Mills, Bernadine "Unhealthy Family Patterns and Intervention Techniques", Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, Vol. 3, 1968

Personal Note:

Lois Wagner has been teaching at PLNU since 1996. She also was involved in the formation of the nursing program while the college was located in Pasadena. She is committed to serving and helping students learn to care for and serve those who are marginalized in society and underserved in health care. Learning to accompany people as they make transitions in life (birth, death, recovery from illness or substances abuse) is a focus of her practice and teaching. She lives in Mission Beach, loves being a grandmother, enjoys rollerblading, hiking music, and reading.

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