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School of Nursing
Ming-Fang Wang
Office: ST 306
Dr. Wang has over 35 years combined teaching and professional nursing experience. She was a part-time faculty member at California State University, Los Angeles for 9 years. She has, since the fall quarter of 2005, been teaching full-time as tenure-track Assistant Professor. Dr. Wang has committed herself to being a life-long learner and educator. Her teaching philosophy includes recognizing the uniqueness of individuals, the value of different viewpoints and the importance of various interpretations. She believes that higher education is a vehicle to help students to discover their potential and become productive individuals in the human society.
Dr. Wang’s teaching interests are many. She has lectured extensively in the areas of Medical-Surgical nursing, including fundamental, intermediate and advanced courses, and nursing leadership and management theory. She has taught, and continues to teach, clinical courses including different levels of medical-surgical nursing, case management and physical assessment. Dr. Wang is very much a student advocate. She very enjoys her role as a student advisor, helping students develop course plans and working with them to achieve both their professional and personal goals.
Dr. Wang has interest in research topics relating to nursing education and health promotion. Her dissertation research project focused on determining nursing students’ perceptions of a caring clinical instructor. She is currently co-investigator for a CVPR/NIH funded project, Older Diabetic Chinese Americans: Health Beliefs, Attitudes and Self-Care Practice. Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership 2005 Master of Science in Nursing (Nursing Education) 1996 B.S. in Health Care Management 1985 Diploma Nursing 1971
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Pepperdine University, Culver City, Ca.