Dr. Cynthia Rowell, DNP ’21, never thought she’d leave the bedside. Now the Chamberlain University graduate is a chief nursing officer.
Dr. Cynthia Rowell says nursing is in her blood. Her grandmother spent 44 years as a nurse at the bedside. Rowell followed her into the profession and started on the same floor—oncology—that her grandmother retired from a few years earlier.
Today, Dr. Rowell is vice president and chief nursing officer for a new AdventHealth facility opening near Tampa.
“I have a passion for being with patients during their hardest times,” says Dr. Rowell, who has managed a neuro ICU and served as director of hospice and palliative care prior to her executive leadership roles.
“I entered my Doctor of Nursing Program at Chamberlain University as a mother of two, a wife, and a nurse leader. Being able to enroll in a program that allowed me to still do all those things, and allowed me the flexibility to get that doctorate, was life-changing for me in my career,” she says.
Here she shares her experience in higher education and why as a leader she values it in her staff.
How Higher Education Improves Careers and Patient Care
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