Ankeny, Iowa — An Orange City woman who is a professor at Dordt College in Sioux Center has received a regional honor.
Dr. Deb Bomgaars of Orange City was awarded the Northwest Iowa Regional Nurse of the Year award at the Iowa Nurses Association Annual Meeting on October 20th in Ankeny. The association says she was selected by her peers in the region because of her outstanding contributions to the nursing profession in her community.
According to the Iowa Nurses Association, she entered nursing in 1984, having received a diploma in Nursing from St. Joseph Mercy School in Sioux City and began working as an RN in the Orange City Area Health System. In 1995, she received a BSN from Briar Cliff and earned an MSN in the Nurse Educator Track from Nebraska Methodist College of Allied Health Sciences in Omaha in 2007.
That same year the association says she joined the new BSN program at Northwestern College as full-time faculty where the association says she was highly respected as a nursing educator. She continued her own professional advancement, earning a Ph.D. in Nursing from South Dakota State University. In 2015 she was appointed as the Director of the Nursing Department at Dordt College.
The association says that under Bomgaars’ leadership, Dordt College is undergoing curriculum changes converting the RN to BSN program to a generic BSN program and will be admitting students to the new program in the fall of 2018.
