Magdeline Aagard
Assistant Professor
aagard@augsburg.edu

Magdeline teaches in both the graduate and undergraduate nursing programs. Her areas of expertise include transcultural nursing, nursing leadership theory, adult education, and ethnonursing and phenomenological qualitative nursing research methods. She has practiced as the director of a bone marrow transplant program, of cardiovascular and pulmonary services, as a cardiovascular research nurse clinician, and as an intensive care unit nurse. Magdeline is also a member of the faculty at North Hennepin Community College, where she teaches second level students medical/surgical nursing, and leadership and management. She has also supervised clinical experiences in the accelerated bachelor’s degree program through Metro State.

Magdeline has her own consulting firm specializing in implementing Western healthcare programs in indigenous cultures. Her most recent work has been for the University of Minnesota Physicians implementing a bone marrow transplant program at a private hospital in Bangalore, India. She has also worked extensively with Global Health Ministries with their hospitals and schools of nursing in India and writing grants for HIV/AIDS work in Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania.

Magdeline’s research has explored how Western healthcare programs are successfully implemented in indigenous cultures and how nursing leadership is understood and expressed in different cultures. Her presentations focus on transcultural nursing in India and Tanzania, as well as her research endeavors.

EDUCATION
B. A., Augustana College
M.B.A. in Medical Management, University of St. Thomas
Thesis: Marketing Plan for Crisis Management: Comparative Case Studies of Two Physicians Diagnosed with HIV
Doctorate in Educational Leadership, University of St. Thomas
Dissertation: Nursing Bricolage in Twenty-first Century Tanzania: How Two New Healthcare Programs Incorporate Tribal Culture, Western Medicine and Evangelism.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Association of Critical Care Nurses
American Nurses Association
International Council of Nurses
National Education Association
National League of Nurses
Sigma Theta Tau International
Transcultural Nursing Society
Uptown Rotary Club

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Aagard, Magdeline, Parran, Leslie (1998). Using an Outcomes Approach to Improve Working Relationships.  Nursing Minnesota, 11. 12.

Aagard, Magdeline, Palazzolo, Jere, Riner, Ronald (2005). In publication. Cardiac Care Teams.  Journal of Cardiovascular Management.

Nursing Bricolage in Twenty-first Century Tanzania: How Two Healthcare Programs Incorporated Tribal Culture, Western Medicine and Evangelism. Doctoral Dissertation 2005.

Upcoming: Sigma Theta Tau International.  November 2007.  Nursing Connections Across the Sea: Sharing Knowledge to Establish a Blood and Marrow Transplant Program in India. The Impact of Culture on the Understanding and Practice of Nursing Leadership in Tanzania and India.

International Council of Nurses, Japan.  May 2007. Using Clinical Simulation to Teach Nursing Students to Deal with the Unexpected.  Poster presentation.

Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, India. June 2006 Nursing Leadership. November 2006 Handling
and Addressing Patient Complaints; Communication and Conflict Resolution in Nursing.

Transcultural Nursing Society Annual meeting 2005, Successful Implementation of Western Healthcare Programs in Indigenous Cultures.

Midwest Qualitative Research Conference, June 2005. Nursing Bricolage in Twenty-first Century Tanzania: How Two Healthcare Programs Incorporated Tribal Culture, Western Medicine and Evangelism.

Hospital Corporation of America Teleconference Series 2004-2005, Issues in Cardiovascular Servicelines; Operational Assessment of Cardiac and Interventional Radiology Laboratories; Leadership in the Cardiac Serviceline.

Bugando Hospital, Mwanza, Tanzania, August 2004. Nursing Leadership.

Selian Hospital, Arusha, Tanzania, August 2004. Nursing Leadership.

American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation Special Interest Group Annual meeting, 1999, Finance and Budget Issues in Blood and Marrow Transplant Programs; Self-pay Patients: Implications in Blood and Marrow Transplant; Blood and Marrow Transplant Program Development; Leadership in Bone Marrow Transplant Programs.

GRANTS AND AWARDS
Faculty Excellence Award 2007- Developing Clinical Simulation Scenarios for Senior Nursing Students
Faculty Excellence Award 2007- Creating New Online Evaluation Tools

COMMUNITY
Uptown Rotary Club, President-Elect.
Board Member, Lyceum DeNovo Charter School (Science and Technology Magnet).
Co-Chair of the Public Health Advisory Committee for the City of Minneapolis, 1996-2003.
Member of the selection committee, City of Minneapolis Commissioner of Health, 1999.

MILITARY
Captain, US Army Reserve, Army Nurse Corps, 1990-2000.
Veteran, Desert Storm.