Dr. Joyce Heise

With a desire to help others and a knack for spreading knowledge, Associate Professor of Nursing Dr. Joyce Heise applies her Master of Science in Nursing and her Doctorate in Education degrees to teach full-time at Kent State University of East Liverpool, as well as work part-time in a hospital’s ICCU.

“I find it so rewarding to see the ‘light’ come on when I am with my students,” she said regarding teaching future nurses.

Heise is a member of the National League for Nursing Accreditation Commission, the American Nurses Association and the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. She also serves as an assistant education consultant for the Ohio Board of Nursing and is serves on the board of Ohio Valley Home Health Care.

She said that William Lyon Phelps best describes how she feels about teaching; “’Teaching is an art – an art so great and so difficult to master –  that a man or a woman can spend a long life at, without realizing much more that his limitations and mistakes and his distances from the ideal.’”

Whether assisting her patients in the ICCU or teaching her ADN students, Heise shows her passion and wit. Quoting Phelps again, Heise added: “I love to teach as a painter loves to paint, as a musician loves to play, as a singer loves to sing, as a strong man rejoices to run a race.”