Alumni

Alumni Sketch: Jeffrey Coto ’94

Since graduating from Valparaiso University’s College of Nursing in 1994, has been helping people through all spectrums of health care.

Jeffrey Coto ’94

Coto has served as an emergency/trauma staff nurse; an advanced practice nurse in critical care specializing in pediatrics; a flight nurse for the University of Chicago Aeromedical Network; and as the clinical director of pediatric emergency medicine and trauma at the University of Chicago Hospitals Comer Children’s Hospital. In the fall of 2007, he became the director of emergency medicine at LaPorte (Ind.) Regional Health System.

During his 15 years as a nurse, he has been a member of the Emergency Nurses Association, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and he also belonged to Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, Mu Omega.

His writings have been published in several major nursing journals. He was a contributing editor of critical care for the American Journal of Nursing, and a contributing author of the paramedic-credentialing textbook published by McGraw-Hill.

Residence: Valparaiso, Ind.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in nursing, Valparaiso University, 1994; master of science degree, Purdue University, 1997.

On his Valpo education/experience: “My success as a professional nurse is all attributed to the well-rounded education that the Valpo nursing program offered me. It is more than just learning how to be a nurse, but how to be active within the nursing profession. I came out with a strong knowledge in theory, research and the sense of community. The Valpo nursing program not only prepares you to be a nurse in providing quality care to the sick and injured, but stimulates you to ask hard questions regarding health care, and to use evidence-based research to answer those hard questions.”