Patricia Sue Ragsdale, M.S.N., R.N.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing Education
College of Nursing 

Sue Ragsdale was a staff and student educator prior to becoming a faculty member in the UAMS College of Nursing in 2008. She received her RN license in 1983 and her APN license in 2007, and spent most of her clinical practice in adult-geriatric acute care settings. Currently a clinical assistant professor, she teaches junior and senior nursing students in the baccalaureate nursing program.

She serves on the College’s Curriculum Committee, Research Committee, Social Affairs Committee, Image Council, and numerous task forces, including student scholarship awards and faculty evaluations. She collaborated with the UAMS Medical Center Advanced Practice Partners (APP) team as a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) consultant in 2009-2010. She was among the founding leaders and an initial board member for the Arkansas Chapter of the National Gerontological Nursing Association in 2009.

She serves as the UAMS College of Nursing facilitator for AACN’s national Quality and Safety in Nursing Education (QSEN) initiative aimed at preparing undergraduate nursing students with the competencies needed to provide quality, safe care that is patient-centered, evidence-based, and utilizes teamwork, collaboration, and information technology.

She is also a recent participant of the University of Minnesota’s Faculty Learning About Geriatrics (FLAG) program and will serve as a facilitator to replicate the program in Arkansas under the leadership of the Arkansas Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence and in partnership with the University of Minnesota College of Nursing.

Ragsdale earned her MSN from the University of Central Arkansas and her Bachelor of Science of Nursing from the University of Louisiana in Lafayette.