Patricia Tooker
Dean of the Evelyn L. Spiro School of Nursing, Evelyn L. Spiro School of Nursing
718-390-3452 ptooker@wagner.edu Union, 3rd floor By appointment only DNP Wagner College, Disaster preparedness & Population Health
Post Masters Certificate Wagner College, FNP
M.S. Wagner College, Nursing Education
B.S. Wagner College, Nursing
Patricia Tooker received a BSN, MSN, and post-master’s nurse practitioner’s certificate, all from Wagner College, Staten Island, N.Y. She received the Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree at Wagner College with research focused on the Heroin Epidemic Among Teens and Young Adults on Staten Island, in December 2016. She holds RN licensure in New York and has current BCLS certification. Pat’s 20 plus years of practice prior to entering higher education consisted of many staff and leadership/management positions within acute care and ambulatory settings.
Her teaching responsibilities in the Spiro School of Nursing have included undergraduate and graduate courses, with expertise in critical care, leadership and management, community health, and health care administration. Pat has also taught for many years in Wagner’s undergraduate general education learning communities’ curriculum. She is the recipient of the Excellence in Service award 2005-2006, the Civic Engagement Faculty Recognition award 2008-2009, and the Excellence in Teaching award 2009-2010. She received tenure in 2005.
In 2010, she was appointed to the position of dean for integrated learning which she held until January 2017. She was responsible for overseeing the undergraduate curriculum, better known as the Wagner Plan, and continues to represent Wagner as an active member and spokesperson within the national circuits in higher education. Her recent publications include an academic chapter in review Brill Publishing :Community Based Partnerships in Nursing (2023) and academic articles in The Journal of Long-Term Care (2021) Metropolitan Universities (2017), Peer Review (2015), the NYU Faculty Resource Network Journal (2015), and Learning Communities Research and Practice (2014). Pat is a board member at Eger Lutheran Homes and Services, Inc. on Staten Island and was appointed to the Staten Island Health and Wellness Advisory Council, which is overseen by the Borough President of Staten Island.
Specialties: Surgical/trauma intensive care, ambulatory surgery, emergency department, community-based nursing curriculum, learning communities in higher education and the health-care delivery system.
Memberships: Sigma Theta Tau-Epsilon Mu Chapter, Academic Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD), NY State Council of Deans & Directors of Nursing (NYSCOD), New American Colleges and Universities (NACU); Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Learning (POD); Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK); Community Campus Partnerships for Health; Association of Schools of Public Health; Global Society for Nursing and Health; Soroptimist International; and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.