Margaret Moss
Assistant Professor
Unit:
School of Nursing
Mail Stop: 3C4
Office Location: Robinson B 472
Phone: 703-993-1957
Email: mmoss3@gmu.edu
Margaret Moss is Instructor and Coordinator of the BSN Accelerated Pathway for Second Degree Students Program at the College of Health and Human Services at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She received her nursing diploma from the Whidden Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Everett, Massachusetts in 1965 and her Bachelors and Masters degrees in nursing from George Mason University in 1982 and 1991 respectively. She is currently a candidate for a PhD in nursing from the same institution.
Ms. Moss started her to-date 39-year nursing career as an operating room nurse in Massachusetts before moving to the Washington DC area where she worked in medical/coronary ICU for six years and became Head Nurse of that unit at Washington Hospital Center. In 1982 she took up full time employment in an educational setting, working for Fairfax Country Public Schools, teaching health occupations, nursing assisting, and Licensed Practical Nursing for fourteen years. In 1995 she was offered a full time teaching position with an international grant at the College of Nursing and Health Science, George Mason University, a position she holds to the present.
During this time Ms. Moss has taught in the international program as well as the traditional program. She has authored two chapters in educational texts on parish nursing – one for faculty on developing a parish nursing clinical site as well as a curriculum, both of which were published in 2001. Her dissertation topic is “Nursing students’ perception of spirituality, recognition of spiritual needs and rendering spiritual care to clients in faith communities.” Ms. Moss expects to finish her dissertation in the spring of 2005 and to continue her teaching career at George Mason University.
Book Chapters:
Teaching students in a faith community. Chapter in G. Redmond and J. Sorrell
(Eds.). Community-based Nursing Curriculum: A Faculty Guide, 161-178. F.
A. Davis (2002)
Winner of 2002 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award
Community-based nursing practice in a faith community. Chapter in J. Sorrell and G. Redmond (Eds.), Community-Based Nursing Practice: Learning Through Students' Stories, 414-428. F.A. Davis (2002)