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Susan Gronka

Assistant Professor


Office: Fayette County Instructional Site
School of Nursing
College of Health
Sgronka@clayton.edu

Biography

I have been a nurse for 40+ years. I obtained a Masters of Science from Georgetown University with a focus on nursing education. I have been teaching nursing students for 11 years. My research interests focus on identifying factors that help nursing students to be successful both academically and clinically.

Education

BSN, Nursing, Thomas Jefferson University, 1984

MS, Nursing Education, Georgetown University, 2014

Intellectual Contributions

Victoria Foster, Elicia Collins, Dianne Nelson, Comfort Obi, Jennie Bergen, Rebecca Morgan, Susan Gronka, Angela L Hollis, Shereda Taylor, Crystal Marchant, Annette Crew-Gooden, Samina Damani, Martricia Turner, Examining the Perceptions of Clinical Competence of Undergraduate Nursing Students During the Era of Social Distancing, i-manager's Journal on Nursing –

Janel O. Johnson, Jessica Mandrioli, Michael Benatar, Yevgeniya Abramzon, Vivianna M. Van Deerlin, John Q. Trojanowski, J. Raphael Gibbs, Maura Brunetti, Susan Gronka, Joanne Wuu, Jinhui Ding, Leo McCluskey, Maria Martinez-Lage, Dana Falcone, Dena G. Hernandez, Sampath Arepalli, Sean Chong, Jennifer C. Schymick, Jeffrey Rothstein, Francesco Landi, Yong-Dong Wang, Andrea Calvo, Gabriele Mora, Mario Sabatelli, Maria Rosaria Monsurrò, Stefania Battistini, Fabrizio Salvi, Rossella Spataro, Patrizia Sola, Giuseppe Borghero, Giuliana Galassi, Sonja W. Scholz, J. Paul Taylor, Gabriella Restagno, Adriano Chiò, Bryan J. Traynor, Exome Sequencing Reveals VCP Mutations as a Cause of Familial ALS, Neuron – December 2010

Presentations

Victoria Foster, Rebecca Morgan, Susan Gronka, Elicia Collins, Factors that predict success on NCLEX exams, GANE Conference, Georgia Association for Nursing Education –  February 2022

Elicia Collins, Han Dong, Susan Gronka, Victoria Foster, The Implementation for administering the flu vaccine to college students: A collaboration between Clayton Sate University School of Nursing and Georgia Tech's Stamps Health Centere, 49th National Immunization Conference, National Immunization Society –  February 2020

Service to the University & University System of Georgia

Department, Curriculum Committee, Committee Member –  Fall 2015 to Present

Department, Open Lab Ad hoc Committee, Committee Member –  Fall 2015 to Present

Department, IT committee, Committee Member –  October 2018 to Present

Department, SEC, Committee Member –  2019 to 2022

Teaching Interest

Pharmacology
Nursing
Research

Research Interest

Nursing Student academic and clinical success