Associate Degree Nursing Faculty
Brookhaven College

A graduate of the University of Michigan College of Nursing with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing, Ms. Schmitt earned her master’s degree in education and psychiatric/mental health nursing from Texas Woman’s University.

She taught nursing at Columbia University College of Nursing in New York City; University of Missouri College of Nursing and Medicine in Columbia, Mo.; and Texas Woman’s University. Her career includes work in university medical centers, veterans hospitals, mental health/mental retardation, long-term care and dementia programming, and psychiatric hospital settings.

A veteran of 40 years of nursing, she has presented a research project on dementia at Hunter College in New York City and has written articles on Alzheimer’s disease for the Journal of Geriatric Nursing. She belongs to the National League for Nursing (NLN).

She joined the DCCCD nursing faculty in 1982 and taught nursing on the El Centro, Richland and Brookhaven campuses until 2004, when she was one of three faculty identified to initiate the Brookhaven Associate Degree Nursing program.

She teaches Foundations for Nursing Practice as well as medical-surgical and psychiatric-mental health nursing.