Patricia Harms teaches written and oral business communication. Dr. Harms teaches her courses using a hybrid teaching model, which unites the traditional face-to-face classroom with distance technology found in the workplace.
Her research interests include virtual teamwork and collaboration; e-learning and e-meetings (including remote business presentations); visual rhetoric; and employee and team performance appraisals.
Prior to her academic career, Dr. Harms was an administrator for a small home health agency where she was also responsible for marketing and public relations. A registered nurse, Dr. Harms has worked in labor and delivery, infection control, and hospital and home health staff development.
Dr. Harms received her PhD in rhetoric and professional communication from Iowa State University, her MA in business and technical communication from Iowa State University, and her BSN from the University of Pennsylvania.