Joni Tweeten
- Clinical Associate Professor, Semester 4 Coordinator, Nursing
Contact Info
- Email: joni.tweeten@UND.edu
- Office: 701.777.4512
- Dept: 701.777.4555
Office Address
CNPD Building Room 331
430 Oxford Street Stop 9025
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9025
Biography
Joni Tweeten, MS, RN, PHNA-BC is a clinical associate professor and Semester 4 Coordinator in the College of Nursing and Professional Disciplines at the University of North Dakota. She began teaching at UND in 2012 and found that she is as passionate about teaching as she is about public health nursing.
She earned her BSN from Dickinson State University and her MS in Nursing with a specialization in Advanced Public Health Nursing from University of North Dakota (UND). She is currently working on her PhD in Instructional Design and Technology. She has a nursing background in both Medical/Oncology and public health, spending the majority of her nursing career before teaching working at a local health department in a variety of roles, including correctional nursing, home visiting program, immunization team, and as a team leader. She also spent two years working in Guatemala with a ND-based, non-profit, called the God’s Child Project, that works to provide education and meet the basic needs of the poorest of the poor in Guatemala. Joni continues her passion for global health by leading a team of nursing students and others on a service trip to Guatemala with the God’s Child Project each summer.
N442 Health Care Infrastructure
N441 Population Based Health
N443 Clinical Practicum IV
N420 Interprofessional Health Care
- Population-Based Health Nursing Education
- Project-Based Learning
- Clinical Judgment
- Immersion Experiences
- Cultural Competence and Humility
- Tweeten, J. (2024, June). Using a design-based research approach to implement and evaluate project-based learning in population health nursing education [Podium Presentation]. Association of Community Health Nursing Educators’ Annual Institute.
- Tweeten, J. & Hung, W. (2023, December 31). Design-based research method in PBL/PjBL: A case in nursing education. International Journal of Problem Based Learning, 17(2). https://doi.org/10.14434/ijpbl.v17i2.37740
- Tweeten, J., (2015, March). Global immersion experience as a method of learning cultural competence. [Research Presentation]. Midwest Nursing Research Society Conference.
- Tweeten, J., (2008, Spring). Ricardo’s story: Bringing hope to a poor Guatemalan child. Dakota Nurse Connection, 6(2), 4 & 9.
Certification:
- Public Health Nursing Advanced AACN Board Certified since 2012
Awards:
- Caring Award, Sigma Theta Tau, Eta Upsilon Chapter (2019)
- Outstanding Graduate Student, Sigma Theta Tau, Eta Upsilon Chapter (2012)
- North Dakota Nurses Association’s Nurse Hero Award (2002)
Working towards Ph.D. (Education, Health, and Behavioral Studies - Instructional Design and Technology), University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
M.S. (Nursing - Advanced Public Health Nursing), University of North Dakota, Grand Forks ND, 2012
B.S. (Nursing) & B.A. (Spanish), Dickinson State University, Dickinson, ND, 2002
A.S. (Practical Nursing), Dickinson State University, Dickinson, ND, 2000