Patricia M. Ahlschlager currently teaches for Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Wadena, Minnesota. She has thirty-two years of nursing experience in teaching, management, IV therapy specialty and critical care. Ms. Ahlschlager received her diploma in nursing from Rapid City Regional School of Nursing, her Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from Denver Metropolitan State College and her Masters Degree in Nurse Educator from Minnesota State University Moorhead, Minnesota. Her graduate thesis was titled, "Student Satisfaction with Simulation in Nursing Curriculum".