Patricia Pence
Dr. Patricia Pence is an Assistant Professor at Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois State University. She was previously a professor in the nursing program at Illinois Valley Community College, Illinois, USA, for over 17 years. Her clinical nursing practice spanned over 28 years as a staff nurse in constant care, medical-surgical, home health, extended-care, and as a director of nursing in long-term care facilities. In 2013 Dr. Pence transformed her nursing classes from lecture to flipped learning. Since then Dr. Pence published her flipped learning strategies in the Teaching and Learning in Nursing journal. She was a guest blogger and coauthor of a textbook for nurse educators that was published in, TEACH students to THINK like a nurse: Transformational strategies that will PREPARE students for PRACTICE. She enjoys sharing her flipped learning strategies with other nurse educators at conferences across the US and in publications on flipped learning in nursing education.