Marjorie J Smith, R.N

Marjorie Smith is an Emeritus Professor at Winona State University where she was the first director of the Master's Program in Nursing. She received her baccalaureate degree in nursing from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her master's degree in childbearing family nursing and doctorate in adult education are from of the University of Minnesota. She is a certified nurse-midwife and was a member of Sigma Theta Tau and the American College of Nurse-Midwives. Dr. Smith taught medical-surgical...See more

Marjorie Smith is an Emeritus Professor at Winona State University where she was the first director of the Master's Program in Nursing. She received her baccalaureate degree in nursing from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her master's degree in childbearing family nursing and doctorate in adult education are from of the University of Minnesota. She is a certified nurse-midwife and was a member of Sigma Theta Tau and the American College of Nurse-Midwives. Dr. Smith taught medical-surgical nursing, pediatric nursing, and obstetrical nursing at the undergraduate level in diploma, associate degree, and baccalaureate programs. She also taught advanced courses in nursing theory, research, women's health care, instruction and evaluation, nursing informatics, and health care technology and computers. She has served as chief editor of the textbook Child and Family: Concepts of Nursing Practice, published by McGraw-Hill. She has also written a computer assisted learning program, The Client Using the Birth Control Pill, published by Medi-Sim. She was an active participant and evaluator for many years in Centering Pregnancy, a model of group prenatal care that is part of the Centering Health Care Institute. Dr. Smith received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Mayo School of Health Related Sciences in 1998. In 2000 she received the Outstanding Nurse Educator award from the Minnesota Association of Colleges of Nursing. In 2009 Dr. Smith was selected as one of the 100 distinguished alumni of the University of Minnesota's School of Nursing in celebration of its Centennial. Outstanding individuals were selected from some 8,500 alumni who were deemed to have made great achievements to advance health care of were doing significant work in the nursing profession that has had a profound impact on families, communities, the school, or the nursing profession. See less