The Conway School of Nursing is thrilled that Eileen Veronica Caulfield, Ph.D., RN, NEA-BC will be returning to Catholic University in July as the Associate Dean of the Baccalaureate Program.  Dr. Caulfield has had a  varied nursing background to include nursing education, practice, research, public health & military service. For the past six years, she has been an Assistant Professor at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia teaching in the undergraduate and graduate programs. Prior to her role at Marymount, she taught as adjunct faculty in nursing at George Mason University’s undergraduate program and at Georgetown University’s graduate program.  She is a veteran, serving a total of 27 years in the Army including five years of active duty and 22 years of reserve status. She achieved the rank of Colonel in 2006.  

During her doctoral studies at The Catholic University of America, with the assistance of Dean McMullen, she had the opportunity to study and explore the clinical problem of secondary brain injury and was granted permission to conduct her dissertation study at Shock Trauma in Baltimore. Her research interests include critical care nursing, the human condition and academic instructional methodology.  She received her B.S.N. from Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY,  her M.A. from NYU and her Ph.D. from the Conway School of Nursing in 2008.

Her teaching and service philosophy is rooted in the simple word “good” which is derived from Catholicism and Socratic thinking where “good is yet more prized” because it leads to knowledge and truth. It is a word that provides her with personal direction to engage and produce good work.