Viktoriya Pleshkan, PhD, APRN, FNP-C
Assistant Professor
About Viktoriya Pleshkan
Dr. viktoriya Pleshkan joined the Loewenberg College of Nursing faculty in 2019. She
earned her BSN degree from Indiana Perdue University of Fort Wayne (IPFW), a Family
Nurse practitioner degree from the University of St. Francis in Fort Wayne IN, and
a Ph.D. in Nursing (along with the certificate in online education) from the Walden
University of, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Dr. Pleshkan's main research interest includes improving nurse practitioners (NP)
transition to practice. She focuses on remodeling preceptorship during NPs’ role transition
both before and after graduation. She published a Cognitive Preceptorship Model to
help guide the process of NP preceptorship. Dr. Pleshkan's second research interest
includes exploring lifestyle modifications in the prevention of chronic illnesses.
She has been collaborating with the College of Health Sciences at the University of
Memphis on a Food Fusion (food literacy) project. The project started in 2021 and
is ongoing. The project includes a multidisciplinary approach to designing and implementing
after school food literacy program for school-aged children.
- PhD-Walden University, Minneapolis, MN
- MSN, FNP, University of Saint Frances, Fort Wayne, IN
- BSN, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN
- ASN, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN
Families
- American Association of College of Nursing
- American Association of Nurse Practitioners
- Greater Memphis Area Advanced Practice Nurses
- Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database and Recognition Award
- Honor Society of Nursing Sigma Theta Zeta International
- Nominated for the Chancellor’s List for the highest academic achievements
- Honors Convocation-Dean’s List
- Pleshkan, V., & Boykins, A. D. (2022). Cognitive preceptorship: An emerging nurse practitioner role transition to practice model. Part I (Model Development). Part II (Model Application). Journal of Professional Nursing, 39, 194-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2022.02.002
- Pleshkan, V., & Singarella, I. (2022). Advancing nursing students' transition to scholarship: embedding a librarian into the Advanced Nursing Research course. Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA, 110(2), 228.Lee, S. & Pleshkan V. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2022.1227
- Lee, S., & Pleshkan, V. (2022). Collaborative Group Writing in Nursing Research Courses: Role Assignment and Peer Evaluation. Journal of Nursing Education, 61(4), 224-224. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20220209-10
- Pleshkan, V. & Hussey, L. (2020). Nurse practitioners’ experiences with role transition: Supporting the learning curve through preceptorship. Nurse Education in Practice, 42, 1-6. Doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2019.102655 Published.
Dr. Pleshkan's current projects focus on two areas, remodeling NP preceptorship and exploring lifestyle modifications in chronic illness prevention. Specific projects include the CPM model guided educational strategy in preparing NP students for their clinical experience; exploring factors that play a role in NP students’ and newly graduated NPs’ professional autonomy; multidisciplinary nutrition literacy project.