Mallory Bejster, DNP, RN, CNL

Biography

Mallory Bejster, DNP, RN’s experiences in public health nursing, nursing education, and the inextricable connection between them, including the development and sustainment of academic-practice partnerships, provide the foundation for her practice and scholarship work. Throughout her career, Bejster has focused her educational, practice, scholarship and service activities around assessing for and meeting the needs of learners and community-based partners by planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based strategies and programs. Bejster’s ultimate goals as a public health nurse and educator are to promote health and to prepare nursing students to promote health in their future practice.

Honors and Activities

Illinois Nurses Foundation 40 under 40 Emerging Nurse Leader Award, 2021

Illinois Board of Education Nurse Educator Fellowship, 2021

The Op-Ed Project Rush University Public Voices Fellowship, 2018

Association of Prevention Teaching and Research Paul Ambrose Scholar, 2017

BACCHUS Network Outstanding Advisor Award, 2012

Speaking Engagements

Utilizing Epidemiology and Public Health Data to Promote Health: Implications for Nursing. Illinois League for Nursing 2020 Fall Conference - The Public Health System and Implications for Nursing, Virtual, 2020.

Using the 5-4-3-2-1 Go! Message in an Elementary School-Based Program to Increase Parent and Teacher Knowledge and Teacher Self-Efficacy Regarding Healthy Childhood Behavior Recommendations, School Systems Interest Group and Health Promotion and Public Education Interest Group Meetings, Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children, Chicago, IL, 2017.

Publications

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Bejster, M., Geis, A., Cygan, H., Ferry-Rooney, R., Kalensky, M., & Moss, A. (2022). Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic-practice partnerships: Implications for nursing education. Journal of Nursing Education, 61(9), 533-536. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20220705-09

Bejster, M., Cygan, H., Stock, J., & Ashworth, J. (2022). A school wellness partnership to address childhood obesity. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 16(1), 85-91. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/849238

Cygan, H., Bejster, M., Tribbia, C., & Vondracek, H. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 on nursing student outcomes. Public Health Nursing, 39(2), 481– 487. https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.12978

Cygan, H., & Bejster, M. (2021). Out of the classroom and into the virtual world: Faculty response to COVID-19. Journal of Nursing Education, 60(9), 509-512. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20210708-04

Bejster, M., Cygan, H., Morris-Burnett, G., Smith, D., Brown-Walker, M., & Friese, T. (2021). Faculty perspectives on transitioning public health nursing clinical to virtual in response to COVID-19. Public Health Nursing, 38(5), 907-912. https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.12929

Reed, M., Cygan, H., & Bejster, M. (2021). Public health nurse scholars, a scholarly concentration program to promote public health nursing for generalist Clinical Nurse Leader nursing students. Journal of Professional Nursing, 37(2), 348-353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2021.01.005

Education

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