Contact Information

Title: Assistant Professor
Discipline: Nursing
Degrees: D.N.Sc., RN, CNS, CNE
Office Location: Room 509, 5th Floor Bellet Building
Phone: 215-762-7363
Fax: 215-762-4080
Email: rw344@drexel.edu

Ruth Wittmann-Price has been an obstetrical/women’s health nurse for almost 30 years. She received her AAS & BSN degree from Felician College in Lodi NJ (1978, 1981) and her MS as a Perinatal CNS from Columbia University, NYC (1983). Ruth completed her Doctorate in Nursing Science (D.N.Sc.) at Widener University, Chester (2006) and was awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence. She developed a mid-range nursing theory “Emancipated Decision-making in Women’s Health Care” for her dissertation. Ruth has taught all levels of nursing students over the past 10 years and has recently completed a service learning trip with students at the Mazahua Mission in Mexico. Besides continuing her research about decisional science, she studies developmental outcomes of preterm infants.

Ruth has just co-edited and chapter contributor of her first book Nursing Education: Foundations for Practice Excellence (2007) F. A. Davis publishers. She is awaiting publication of a second chapter “The high risk newborn” to be published next year by F. A. Davis. She has published numerous articles and has presented her theory internationally. She is clinically active as per diem staff on the Mother-Baby unit at Lehigh Valley Hospital and as an APRN at The Midwives and Associates, Allentown. She is thrilled to join the Drexel team as a nurse educator and researcher.