Clinical Instructor
(334) 844-6762
holmesu@auburn.edu

Education
MSN (Trauma and Family Nurse Practitioner), University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1991 and 1996, PhD in Adult Education from Auburn University in 2006.

Interests
Emergency Nursing, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Decision Making

Teaching Areas
Medical-Surgical Nursing, Pharmacology, Perioperative Nursing elective, Coordinator for Senior Seminar and Senior Preceptorship

Current Research
Critical thinking in baccalaureate nursing students, The relationship among critical thinking, clinical decision making and clinical practice

Overview
Susan Holmes received her undergraduate degree in Nursing from Auburn University School of Nursing in the first class to graduate from the program. She went on to obtain her PhD in Adult Education at Auburn University in 2006. Holmes is active in teaching classes for registered nurse staff at East Alabama Medical Center, with a particular focus on gastroenterology and GI diseases, as well as emergency triage. She is active in the East Alabama Nurse Practitioner group.

Holmes joined the AU faculty originally in 1996 and currently serves as a clinical instructor. She teaches courses across the curriculum that focus on emergency and trauma concepts, pharmacology and coordinates the preceptorships for all students, as well as the senior seminar in the final semester of the program. Holmes has received the Outstanding Faculty Award for the School of Nursing twice.