Betzi Quiroz, MSN, RN joined Boise State University’s School of Nursing as a Clinical Assistant Professor in 2013. Quiroz received her BS degree in Nursing from Boise State University (2001) and her MSN degree in Nursing Education from Gonzaga University (2009). Quiroz was born and raised in Peru which allowed her to gain bilingual and bicultural skills.

Her teaching areas of interest include the development and implementation of experiential learning activities such as simulation and short-term cultural immersion as it provides students with hands-on-“put yourself in their shoes”-lifelong lessons. One of these experiential activities assisted nursing students in gaining perspective of barriers that chronically ill clients face when attempting to manage chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. Quiroz’s research interests include strengthening curricula to assist in the development of cultural sensitivity, awareness, knowledge, and competence as well as holistic and patient-centered nurses as the demand to meet the needs of our emerging diverse communities is great, especially among underserved and disadvantaged populations such as senior citizens, farm workers, sheep herders and refugees of Idaho.