Dennis Ondrejka, PhD, RN, CNS, is currently the director of nursing programmes and professor at Colorado Christian University in Northglenn, Colorado, USA. Dennis has worked to build a Shared Governance Programme moving toward Magnet recognition for Exempla Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, just prior to returning to education. He is an advanced practice nurse in Colorado in the specialty of community and occupational health and received his master's in nursing from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 1981. As a specialist in occupational health, he worked as a clinician and manager for several nationally acclaimed agencies, such as the National Jewish Hospital in Denver, Children's Hospital in Denver, General Motors (AC Spark Plug Division) in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and Manville Corporation in Denver. Dr. Ondrejka received his doctorate at the University of Denver in higher education in 1998 with a dissertation focused on "Affective Pedagogy in Post-Baccalaureate Education." He began his teaching career in 1982 at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee where his expertise was mental health and addiction detoxification. Since receiving his doctorate, Dennis taught at the University of Utah-College of Nursing and at Regis University before becoming an associate professor and associate dean at the Denver School of Nursing. Dr. Ondrejka has presented and published on numerous topics including, emotional intelligence in nursing, relationship-based care strategies, unstructured problem solving occupational health specialty topics, and the patient experience in health care. This is Dr. Ondrejka's first book focused on his passion, teaching in the affective domain for nursing students.