telephone: (215) 481-5541
e-mail: dhines@amh.org

Role At Dixon
Debby Hines has been appointed to the position of Director of Nursing Education/Chair Dixon School of Nursing in March 2007. Debby has served as Interim Director since June 2006 and has demonstrated exceptional leadership and commitment to the students, faculty, and staff.

Debby graduated from Abington Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, completed her BSN and MSN at Thomas Jefferson University and is currently pursuing her doctoral degree. Prior to her leadership role Debby was a Course Coordinator and Clinical Instructor at the School.

Educational Background
1973 - RN - Abington Memorial Hospital School of Nursing
1998 - BSN - Thomas Jefferson University
2002 - MSN - Thomas Jefferson University, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Community/Public Health

Professional Experience
Ms. Hines has expertise in many areas of nursing prior to instructing at Dixon. She has sixteen years of critical care, pediatric and emergency nursing experience. Additionally, she worked two years in occupational health and nine years as a nurse manager. She is a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner.

Professional Awards and Recognition
In 1989, she was the recipient of the Emergency Nursing Excellence Award by Abington Memorial Hospital. In 1994, Abington Memorial Hospital awarded her the Sarah A. Fitzpatrick Frankenfield Scholarship to complete her BSN degree. She was the first Abington Memorial Hospital nurse manager to receive the award for excellence in leadership in 1998. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. In 2002, she was among a group of Dixon School of Nursing Faculty to receive the Nursing Excellence Award in Education.

Personal Interests
She is a member of the AMH Clinical Forensic Examiner Program. She is also an instructor for Advanced Cardiac Life Support.

Nursing Education As A Career
Debby Hines chose nursing as a career because she always wanted to be a nurse from childhood. She chose to be a nurse educator to combine her hands-on experience in bedside patient care and her mentoring experience with student nurses in the hospital extern program. She felt it was valuable to fuse her clinical expertise with her love of teaching. Teaching student nurses was one of her career goals. She especially loves the diversity and dedication of students at Dixon.

"Caring with Confidence"
It is the role of an instructor to provide students with the clinical skills and theoretical knowledge to become critical thinkers. The constant goal is to provide compassionate care not only to patients, but also their families.