Jeanann Sousou Coppola

Dr. Jeanann Coppola's interests span women’s healthcare, peer mentoring, global health nursing, and human trafficking.  Dr. Coppola is a Board-Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) and Certified Nurse Educator (CNE) with experience teaching across academic programs using a variety of traditional and digital instructional formats. She uses versatile teaching strategies including multimodal and digital platforms to engage students and promote critical thinking. She has presented on a wide variety of digital platforms, including ShadowHealth and ExamSoft.

Dr. Coppola is keenly interested in global health nursing and leads allied health students on a three-week immersion and civic engagement trip to Bolivia, one of the most poverty-stricken countries in the Western Hemisphere. This seminar and course introduces students to this developing country with the aim of helping them to gain a deeper understanding of health and healing across multidisciplinary sectors.

Dr. Coppola focuses on collaborative research articles on women’s health topics published in peer-reviewed journals.  She has a long-standing interest in mentorship — her DNP Capstone study was based on , which she presented at the University of New Mexico Mentoring Institute, 9 Annual Mentoring Conference in October of 2016.   

Midwifery

Women's healthcare

Peer mentoring

Human trafficking

Global health nursing

Digital, interactive classroom

DNP: Rutgers University—Newark, 2013

MA (Nursing): New York University, The College of Nursing, 2003

BSN: New York University, The College of Nursing, 2000

BS (Psychology): Le Moyne College, 1997

Articles in Refereed Journals

• Sousou Coppola, J., & Cantwell, R. (2016). Health professional role in identifying and assessing victims of human labor trafficking. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 12, e193–e200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nurpra.2016.01.004

• Sousou, J., & Smart, C. (2015). Care of the childbearing family with an intrauterine fetal demise. Nursing for Women's Health.

• Sousou, J. (2014). Middle East Respiratory Syndrome: What do we know? The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 11(1), 131–134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nurpra.2014.09.019

• Sousou, J. (2014). Share with Women: Gonorrhea and Chlamydia. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, 58(5), 599–600. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmwh.12086

Professional Awards and Honors

• 2014 - Nominee, New Jersey March of Dimes Nurse of the Year Award, Nurse Educator Category

• 2013 - Winning Poster, Leadership Development Activities for Accelerated Students

  • Presented at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Sixth Annual New Careers in Nursing Program Liaisons’ Summit: Accelerated Nursing Education 6.0 – Transforming the Academic Environment and Organization Culture

Academic Leadership

• Current - Chair, Faculty Development and Scholarship Committee, Rutgers School of Nursing – Camden