Cynthia Rost, DNP, RN, CNE, HFQE, APNA Certified Suicide Prevention Nurse

Cindy Rost is an Assistant Professor of Nursing, responsible for teaching Behavioral Health Nursing, Population Health Nursing, Nursing Theory for Advanced Practice Nurses, Evidence Based Practice, Service Learning and Clinical and Population based learning to undergraduates, RN-BSN, second degree, masters and DNP students. Rost has designed, developed and taught the RN-BSN, Master’s Program and DNP courses in an online format using the Blackboard IT framework. 

She wrote grants that provided monies to purchase self-screening equipment for distribution within the underserved communities of Greater Pittsburgh who are underinsured or uninsured. Rost developed and implemented a population-based clinical program for the undergraduates that has a purpose of allowing each student group to become the expert of a population within the community and share their knowledge with classmates.

Rost is a former team member of the Provosts Covid-19 re-entry onto campus sub-committee, a working member of the SON Diversity Task Force, on the committee to prevent increased anxiety and suicide in our student population, board member for the Association of Community Health Nurse Educators (ACHNE), a book reviewer for Kwolters on texts associated with Population Based Health, an abstract reviewer for the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and a CEU reviewer for the NLN.

• DNP, Carlow University, 2017
• MSN, Nursing, California University of Pennsylvania, 2012
• BSN, Nursing, Duquesne University, 1984
• BA, Speech Pathology/Psychology, Duquesne University, 1980

• Death and Dying in the Community
• Mentoring the New Community Health Nurse Using a "Human Becoming Model"
• Successful Transitions from Chronic Inpatient Mental Health in to the Community
• Self-Efficacy in the African American Elderly