Rate My Professor Margaret Fink

Margaret Fink, EdD, RN, serves as Professor of Nursing in the Department of Nursing within the School of Health and Natural Sciences at Dominican University of California. She holds an EdD in Learning and Instruction from the University of San Francisco (2005), an MS in Nursing focused on case management and long-term care from San Francisco State University (1997), and a BS in Nursing from Dominican College of San Rafael (1988). A registered nurse with over 30 years of experience in various adult care settings, Dr. Fink has been a full-time faculty member at Dominican for more than 22 years. She teaches intermediate medical-surgical nursing, pathophysiology, and pharmacology, and currently directs the Internationally Educated Nurses (IEN) Program, having previously served as its assistant director and as associate director of nursing. Her career emphasizes hands-on clinical preparation, fostering relationships between students and nurse preceptors for effective transitions to professional practice.

Dr. Fink's research specializations include faculty and skills lab instruction, oncology, postoperative care, and labor/delivery, with a primary focus on skills competency among internationally educated nurses. She has delivered presentations such as "Against Medical Advice: Addressing Treatment Refusal" (2023, with L. Linnard-Palmer) and evaluations of the IEN Program (2019, 2018). Notable posters include "Implementation of an Internationally Educated Nurses Program" (2017, with A. Renwanz Boyle) and "Why Do I Need This Pill? A Simulated Approach for Teaching Pharmacology to Undergraduate Nursing Students" (2017, with A. Renwanz Boyle and L. Linnard-Palmer). Key publications encompass "A Comparison of Skills Competency Test Scores among Philippine-Educated Nursing Students after an Intensive Medical-Surgical Course" (2015), "An Evaluation of Deliberate Practice and Safe Nursing Skills Competency Testing in a BSN Program" (2015), "Board #227 - Program Innovation: A Pilot Investigation of Deliberate Practice and Safe Nursing Skills-Competency Testing in a BSN Program" (2014), "Evaluating the Use of Standardized Patients in Teaching Spiritual Care at the End of Life" (2014), and "Testing a Mnemonic on Response Skills during Simulated Codes" (2013). In 2024, she received the Joseph R. Fink Faculty Achievement Award. Dr. Fink maintains memberships in the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning, Society for Simulation in Healthcare, National Association of Catholic Nurses, and Sigma Theta Tau, Rho Alpha Chapter.