Biography
Dr. Leanne Burke has been a registered nurse for 25 years, the majority of which was spent in caring for childbearing families of all levels of acuity. She sought advanced training in midwifery and found a passion for teaching prelicensure nursing students while teaching a clinical rotation during her MSN program. Teaching allowed her to share her drive to improve the care of all childbearing patients by sharing her knowledge with the students she taught. After teaching in prelicensure programs for over a decade, Leanne returned to school to complete her Doctor of Education in Nursing Education at Southern Connecticut State University where she could advance her training in educational pedagogy and mentor others in their teaching. Dr. Burke’s scholarly interests demonstrate her dual foci of clinical and academic passions, including student success, nursing education, and maternal newborn nursing and doula support to decrease perinatal adverse outcomes. As the Program Director for the BS and MS in Nursing Science Programs, she spends much of her time in administration and teaching theory, clinical, and simulation courses to remain up to date with the most current evidence.
Research Interests
Nursing Education, Grit, Maternal Newborn Nursing, Midwifery, Doula support to decrease adverse perinatal outcomes, Nursing Simulation, Nursing Faculty Mentorship
Education
EdD, Southern Connecticut State University, 2019, Nursing Education
MS, San Diego State University, 2003, Community Health Nursing
BS, University of San Francisco, 1996, Nursing
Honors and Awards
- 2023 Excellence in Pedagogical Development, Honorable Mention
- 2022 Fellow, UCI DTEI Faculty Academy for Teaching Excellence
- 2021 Nursing Excellence Award Nomination: Educator of the Year
- 2020 “Faculty of the Year”, University of California, Irvine awarded by the Bachelor of Science, Nursing Science graduating class of 2020
- 2003 “Excellence in Clinical/Administrative Practice Award”, San Diego State University
