Biography and Professional Achievements
Dr. Jody Panian has worked as a nurse in a variety of specialties for more than 35 years. Her most rewarding areas of nursing include orthopedics, medical surgical nursing, operating room, and program development and new program services for healthcare facilities. She has especially enjoyed promoting medical care to rural outreach communities throughout her career, along with designing a program to offer services to patients with chronic liver conditions.
Panian began clinical-teaching students in a large Denver area hospital, responding to a need for teaching bedside critical thinking skills and best practices to student nurses in the clinical setting. After 10 years of clinical teaching, she expanded her career into an academic setting and began teaching in higher education.
Panian has been a professor in the CCU nursing program for 10 plus years, serving in several positions, including classroom teaching, online teaching, and skills and lab directing for six years. She is the current interim director for the BSN program, a member and treasurer of Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, and a Nurses Christian Fellowship member.
In her free time, Panian and her husband have a lake house outside of Colorado where she enjoys fishing and boating. She also loves to garden and travel.
