Barbara Niedz

Dr. Barbara Niedz has been an RN since 1971 and resides in New Jersey. Over her 45+ year career, she has served in leadership positions in NJ hospitals and in managed care. She has been on the faculty at Walden since 2006, serving initially in the MSN program, and in the DNP program since its inception. In 2017, Dr. Niedz was appointed senior contributing faculty. At Walden, Dr. Niedz has participated in CCNE preparation through the years, and teaches primarily in 8700, 8701, 8702, 8703, the DNP capstone process of mentoring and completion, having supported over 75 completed projects in 8700 and 8701, and over 40 in 8702, and 8703. Dr. Niedz has served on just one or two PhD committees. Dr. Niedz participated in curriculum revisions at Walden including the revamp of the data management course (8211) as a contractor.
In addition to her work at Walden, she has served on the faculty at Rutgers, as adjunct from 2013 to 2019 and as full-time Assistant Professor from 2019 to June, 2025 when she retired, and still has volunteer work that is current. At Rutgers, Dr. Niedz taught a course entitled Management of Healthcare Data for the DNP program, offered statistical consultation to students completing the DNP capstone project, and taught courses on DNP project planning, implementation and dissemination. While at Rutgers, Dr. Niedz participated in an advanced practice curriculum revision, based on the competency based AACN essentIals. Dr Niedz provides consulting services through her independent consulting firm, Quality Outcomes, LLC.

Courses Taught

NURS 8700 - DNP Project Mentoring

NURS 8701 - Project Completion

Education

BSN, Rutgers, The state university of NJ

MS, Rutgers, The state university of NJ

PhD, Rutgers University

Awards / Honors

Outstanding Alumni of the Year 2014 Rutgers, , 2014

Publications

Niedz, B. (1998). Correlates of hospitalized patients' perceptions of service quality. Research in Nursing and Health