Instructor Biographies
Section Instructor
Sarah Silvest-Guerrero
ssilvestguerrero@fsmail.bradley.edu
DNP in Health Systems Leadership from Chamberlain College of Nursing
MS in Nursing Leadership Management from Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing
BSN from Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing
Dr. Sarah Silvest Guerrero joined the Bradley University Department of Nursing in August 2017 as an online section instructor. She earned her ADN from Illinois Central College in 2007, BSN fromSaint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing in 2010 and her MS in Nursing Leadership Management from the Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing in 2013. In 2016, Dr. Silvest Guerrero earned a DNP with an emphasis in Health Systems Leadership from ChamberlainCollege of Nursing. Her Capstone project, Implementing a Standard Accountability Process and Its Effect on Daily Patient Rounding, is utilized at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center to help mitigate issues related to the patient experience.
Dr. Silvest Guerrero has clinical experience in acute medical, patient experience leadership, nursing unit leadership, and performance improvement, including certification in Six Sigma methodology. She is a wife and proud mother of Isaiah 15 and Sophia 10.
Dr. Silvest Guerrero holds a professional nursing licensure in Illinois and is BLS certified. She is an active member in the American Nurses Association, and Sigma Theta Tau.
Lead Instructor
Peggy Flannigan
Associate Chair & Associate Professor of Nursing
Burgess Hall 306
(309) 677-2568
Ph.D., Nursing, University of Illinois, Chicago
M.S., Nursing, University of Illinois College of Nursing at Peoria
BSN, Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing
Dr. Peggy Flannigan teaches Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing. She has also taught courses in Nursing Research and Nursing Education to graduate students. In addition, she has guided multiple graduate student research projects. At the undergraduate level, she has taught research and both medical surgical and leadership theory and practicum courses for students in their senior year.
Dr. Flannigan joined the Bradley faculty in 1996. Prior to that time she was employed in a variety of settings, including acute care, neuro rehabilitation, and physicians’ offices, and she served as a nursing education administrator. Dr. Flannigan has recently been involved in planning courses for online education and enjoys using a variety of methods in the classroom ranging from the traditional lecture to interactive learning via seminar/discussion and group activities.
Dr. Flannigan’s personal research interests include return-to-play decisions following brain trauma in the athlete, decision-making capacity and surrogate decision-making in the older population, integrating E-books into the curriculum, and most recently, while working with a graduate student, generational diversity in the workplace.
Dr. Flannigan provides service to the Department of Nursing, the EHS College, and the University through several activities. The most recent of these activities was leadership of the accreditation team. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society for Nurses. She has served Epsilon Epsilon Chapter as its Secretary, President, and currently the Leadership Succession Committee. She is President of the Executive Board and Chair of the Mark Linder Walk for the Mind, an organization to bring awareness to and funding for brain tumor research. In addition, Dr. Flannigan is a member of the Tazewell County Board of Health, serves on the Tazewell County Breast and Cervical Cancer Coalition, Tazewell County Free Mammogram Day Planning Committee, and as a member of the Tremont United Methodist Church, she serves on various committees of the church.