Rate My Professor Sadeeka Al-Majid

Sadeeka Al-Majid, PhD, RN, FAAN, serves as Professor and Director of the School of Nursing at California State University, Fullerton, where she also acts as Graduate Programs Coordinator. In this role, she leads programs including undergraduate nursing, advanced practice specialties such as Nurse-Midwifery and Nurse Anesthesia (in partnership with Kaiser Permanente), and the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP). The school's RN-to-BSN program was ranked #1 in 2024 by allnurses.org, and its graduate programs in Nurse-Midwifery and Nurse Anesthesia were ranked best by U.S. News & World Report in 2016 and 2017. Al-Majid is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and received the DAISY Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence in 2023.

Her research program encompasses three primary areas: cancer-related fatigue and skeletal muscle wasting, investigating exercise interventions to mitigate biobehavioral outcomes; tissue interface pressure in intraoperative patients and strategies for mitigation; and evidence-based practice to enhance patient outcomes. Recent projects include a study measuring tissue interface pressure patterns in 150 anesthetized patients during surgery, with a manuscript under review, and the ENRICH project (Enriching Nursing Representation to Impact Community Health), a five-year Health Resources and Services Administration grant (2020-2025) totaling $3.25 million. This initiative provides scholarships to disadvantaged students in graduate nursing programs to promote their employment in primary care and medically underserved communities. Key publications include "Assessing the degree of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue among critical care, oncology, and charge nurses" (Journal of Nursing Administration, 2018), "The effect of offloading heels on sacral pressure" (AORN Journal, 2017), "Effects of exercise on biobehavioral outcomes of fatigue during cancer treatment: results of a feasibility study" (Biological Research for Nursing, 2015), "Cancer-induced fatigue and skeletal muscle wasting: the role of exercise" (Biological Research for Nursing, 2001), and "A biobehavioral model for the study of exercise interventions in cancer-related fatigue" (Biological Research for Nursing, 2009). Her scholarship has advanced understanding of exercise in cancer symptom management and perioperative pressure injury prevention, influencing nursing education and practice through funded initiatives and program leadership.