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Janice L. McCoy, PhD, RN, held early career roles as a school nurse, flight nurse, and cardiac catheterization lab nurse. For the majority of her nursing career, she held appointments at Central Wyoming College, including Nursing Faculty, Nursing Program Director, Division Chair, Professional/Technical Division, and Allied Health Division(1993-1999), Director of Distance Education/Lifelong Learning(1999-2002). More recently, Dr. McCoy has served as nursing faculty at Walden University, Individual Service Coordinator, Wyoming Dept of Health, and Independent Contractor & Consultant for Sylvan Learning Systems, as well as interim Director of Nursing Programs & Mentor, Western Governors University, Salt Lake City, Utah. She holds an online instructor certificate from Walden University and was awarded a Kellogg Fellowship through the University of Portland. ||Marion G. Anema, PhD, RN, has held faculty appointments at a variety of educational institutions, including most recently, Associate Director, Nursing Programs, College of Health Professions, Western Governors University (2007 - 2008), Mentor & Faculty Chair, Walden University (2001-2007), Dean, School of Nursing, Tennessee State University (1990-2001), and Assistant Dean, Texas Woman's University, Dallas. (1979-1990). She holds certificates as an online instructor, in case management, online quality management, and intensive Bioethics (Georgetown Univ). Her scholarly articles have been published in DCCN, JONA, Nursing, J of Nursing Education, Nurse Educator, International Nursing Review, Computers in Nursing, J of Continuing Education in Nursing, among others