Nursing Leadership

Nancy Meedzan, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC 
Inaugural Chair, Department of Nursing

Nancy L. Meedzan, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC is chair of the Department of Nursing and professor of nursing. Dr. Meedzan is a proven leader with vast clinical knowledge and a demonstrated commitment to high-quality nursing education. She comes to Providence College from the Cummings School of Nursing and Health Sciences at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts, where she was Dean since January 2019. She joined Providence College in February 2023 and began her tenure in June 2023.

After graduating from Boston College in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in nursing, Dr. Meedzan began a nearly 20-year nursing career working as a registered nurse at several Rhode Island and Massachusetts hospitals and medical facilities. A committed scholar whose primary interest is in global health, Dr. Meedzan is co-investigator of an international study on the impact of COVID-19 on patients living with HIV. She is co-editor of the textbook Global Health Nursing in the 21st Century. She has taken students on short-term immersion experiences to Guatemala, South Africa, and the Dominican Republic to study the delivery of compassionate nursing care in places challenged to provide healthcare resources.