Melanie Burnett, MSN, RN

Position

Assistant Professor of Nursing

Email Address

Melanie.Burnett@sckans.edu

Bio

Burnett comes to us from William Newton Hospital. She has been a practicing clinical educator for the last four years while working with Butler Community College as a clinical Instructor the past year.

Melanie has worked in many of the clinical areas in the hospital, Emergency medicine was her “niche.” She worked first as a staff nurse in the ER, she then went to work as the nurse manager for many years.

Burnett was part of the clinical adjunct faculty team for the previous Southwestern College nursing program. Being a graduate of the Southwestern College nursing program in 2008, it was an easy decision to make. It was important to be able to go back to the college to teach and give back to the community in a meaningful way.

“The professors and the community made such an impact on my life and being able to forge that same kind of relationship with students is important to me.”

“My passion for teaching includes finding creative ways to teach.”

Simulation education, AI, virtual reality, escape rooms, and many other creative learning methods are all interesting ways Mel has investigated teaching our future nurses.

“We must meet the nurses where they are and get them to realize they CAN learn - if we can find their best learning method.”