Suzanne Keep

Suzanne Keep

Associate Professor
Site Director, Pre-Licensure Program, Grand Rapids

Suzanne Keep
Contact Info:
Campus: Aquinas College
Building: Albertus Hall
Room: 203
Phone: 616-632-2823
Suzanne Keep
Courses Taught:
Community Health Nursing
Senior Immersion
Senior Seminar
Intro to Nursing Practice in the Mercy and Jesuit Traditions

Degrees

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Nursing, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  • Master of Science, Nursing, Wayne State University
  • Bachelor of Science, Nursing, Nazareth College

Biography

After a decade of hospital and community clinical experience, Dr. Suzanne M. Keep devoted herself to improving nursing education in Michigan. First, as an instructor for the University of Michigan (1988-93) and Saginaw Valley State University (1996-2005), and then as adjunct professor at University of Michigan-Flint in 2005. Dr. Keep joined the nursing faculty at University of Detroit Mercy in 2006, where she became tenured (2014), assistant professor (2011) and associate professor (2017).

Since 2012, Dr. Keep has been the chair and site director of the university’s pre-licensure B.S.N. program at Aquinas College. She has a long list of research study leadership, articles published, and presentations made. She is active in the Michigan Public Health Association as president elect of the American Nurses Association-Michigan, the Association of Community Health Nurse Educators.

Dr. Keep is married to Paul, and they enjoy their free time with their three children and their spouses along with four grandchildren. Their son, John, graduated from Detroit Mercy with a degree in Digital Media Studies and a Minor in Business. John's wife, Jessica, graduated from Detroit Mercy with a B.S.N. and is now in her third year of Detroit Mercy's CRNA program, graduating in August 2023. John has his dream job working in the Product Design Office at Stellantis. Being a graduate of University of Detroit Mercy opens doors!

Suzanne Keep's CV (PDF)

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    Research Topics

    • Community health
    • Physical activity among Latina women and children
    • Distress among nursing students
    • Migrant workers, foot care among the vulnerable population in the community