Beth Traudes

RN, MSN

Instructor of Nursing
S356 MU Sinclair School of Nursing
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211
E-Mail: TraudesB@missouri.edu
Phone: (573) 882-0242
Fax: (573) 884-4544

Nursing Specialty: Gerontological Nursing

Interest Area: Palliative and End of Life Care

Beth is a 1975 BSN graduate of the University of Missouri and did her graduate work at the University of Kentucky (MS '80). Her work has focused on care of the elderly in North Carolina , Kentucky and The Netherlands. After living in The Netherlands for most of 18 years, Beth returned to her alma mater to join the faculty of the MU Sinclair School of Nursing. She currently is responsible for 115 students per semester and is coordinator of the Nursing Arts And Clinical simulation Center (NACSC).

Beth is the first two-time recipient of the Betty Crim Faculty Enhancement Award, an honor established to recognize faculty whom students feel have contributed in an outstanding manner to their academic and professional nursing development. She is a fellow in the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium, a Robert Wood Johnson funded program focusing on educating all health professionals in supporting patients and their families through the life process of dying. Beth serves on the University Hospitals and Clinics Palliative Care Committee, and works together with other nursing leaders in the community to improve end of life care in Missouri .

Beth presents multiple Professor's Perspective sessions annually to incoming freshmen and their parents during Summer Welcome and works with incoming nursing students during Fall Welcome. She is to be found serving ice cream at the annual Tiger Walk and pancakes at the Midnight Brady Breakfasts to start off each week of finals. Beth is a lifetime member of the MU Alumni Association and a founding member of the school's Nightingale Society.

As Coordinator of the NACSC, Beth takes the opportunity to stay in touch with most clinical nursing majors throughout their study at the SON. Many updates have been achieved for the Center during her tenure, including upgrading of computerized simulators and bedside computers as well as modernizing the assessment and lifting equipment. Beth is actively involved as the Development Office seeks to find funding for a major renovation of the lab's floor plan to better accommodate an increasing student population.

• Recipient, 2001 and 2005 Betty Crim Faculty Enhancement Award
• Recipient, 2002 SON Excellence in Teaching Award
• Member, SSON Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
• Chair, Nursing Calculations Task Force 2004
• Member, Evidence Based Practice Task Force
• Professor's Perspective presenter, Summer Welcome 2001-present
• Member, University of Missouri Hospital:Clinics Palliative Care Committee
• Member, Sigma Theta Tau
• Member, MU Nursing Alumni Organization Board of Directors 1998-2002
• Member, MO Nurses Association Government Affairs Committee 1999-2003
• Charter Member, Boone County Chapter of Missouri end of Life Coalition

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