Dr. Cindy Waller
Nursing Department Chair - Associate Professor
Monday through Friday 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
No appointment necessary
Ph.D., MSN, RN, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2011
MSN, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 1997
BSN, Bethel College, North Newton, KS, 1984
Wesley School of Nursing, Wichita, KS, 1977
As the Chair of the Department of Nursing at Truman State University, I bring over 40 years of both hospital and academic nursing leadership to this role. My north star for the profession of nursing is Florence Nightingale who said "Nursing is an art and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit?" I can think of no higher calling than to care for the sick and their families; it is my goal to embody that calling to the next generation of nurses.