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A health provider and educator with more than 30 years of experience, Hackwith will serve as a liaison to ISU clinical education partners, and assist the ISU School of Nursing with curriculum development, student advising and faculty leadership for its accredited nursing program.

鈥淗aving come to nursing as a second bachelor-degree student, I鈥檓 keenly aware of both the opportunities and challenges of the accelerating nursing student, and enthusiastic to support the students and faculty of this important program,鈥� Hackwith said.

 ISU offers the state鈥檚 only accelerated Bachelor of Science degree in nursing, a three-semester program based on the ISU-Meridian campus. To enter the program, students must hold a bachelor鈥檚 degree in another discipline and complete prerequisites.

A board-certified nurse practitioner since 2004, Hackwith holds a doctorate in nursing practice and a Family Nurse Practitioner post-graduate certificate from Frontier Nursing University in Hyden, Kentucky. She earned a master鈥檚 degree in nursing at Case Western University, and bachelor鈥檚 degrees in nursing and psychology at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Hackwith assumed her new position Nov. 2. Before joining ISU, she was clinical coordinator for Boise State University鈥檚 School of Nursing and was on the nursing faculty at University of Nebraska Medical Center and adjunct faculty at Gonzaga University.