Growing up in her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Dr. Sandi Mellor, DNP (Class 30), APRN, FNP-BC, knew at a young age that she wanted to pursue a career in healthcare so she could “help people get healthy and stay healthy.” Determined to do just that, she took a medical-surgical nursing class while still in high school. After high school, she worked towards her associate degree in nursing and worked as a nurse for three years for the National Health Authority in Bedford, England, where her husband was stationed as a member of the U.S. Air Force. “I thought I wanted to be a physician, but after taking my first nursing medical-surgical class in high school, I fell in love with being with the patients,” said Mellor, who has worked as a nurse for almost thirty years.
Frontier Nursing University Faculty Selected for 2025 AACN Diversity Leadership Institute
Frontier Nursing University (FNU) announced that three of its faculty have been selected by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) to participate in the organization’s 2025 Diversity Leadership Institute. FNU faculty accepted to attend the institute are Dr. Tanya Belcheff, DNP, CNM Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Dr. Torica Fuller, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, FNP-C, WHNP-BC, CDP, CGRN, CPN, NRCME Clinical Transition Coordinator, Family Nurse Practitioner Program; and Dr. April Phillips, DNP, FNP, PHMNP Regional Clinical Faculty, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program.
FNU prepares for annual Day of Giving
FNU is gearing up for the third annual Day of Giving, a day for communities to come together to raise awareness of the importance of giving back to Frontier and its many programs and scholarships. Set for Oct. 22 through 23 from noon to noon, this year’s Day of Giving aims to build on and exceed the successes of past events. Leading the charge on these efforts is Lisa Colletti-Jones, FNU’s Director of Annual Giving and Courier Programs. Colletti-Jones said Day of Giving was established to focus on a 24-hour period to celebrate the community and focus on the diverse needs of the university.
Graduate Spotlight: Rachelle Molière-Ogunlana opens women’s health clinic and midwifery center in California
After earning her Post-Graduate Certificate in Nurse-Midwifery from FNU in 2020, Rachelle Molière-Ogunlana, MSN, CNM, FNP-CLa, leveraged her education and experience as a nurse-midwife, labor and delivery RN and family nurse practitioner to open her own women’s health clinic and midwifery center. Molière-Ogunlana is the founder of Clinique Molière in Brea, California, a health and wellness center that provides services ranging from well-woman care to birth and postpartum care to breastfeeding support. The business will soon open its first birth center. At 5,000 square feet, it is expected to be the largest freestanding birth center in California.
FNU’s Dr. Kelsey Kent advances PMHNP education with competency-based psychotherapy training
Recognized each year on Oct. 10, World Mental Health Day is an international day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma. When it comes to addressing these issues in the field of healthcare, a robust workforce of well-trained and compassionate Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNPs) is critical. Kelsey Kent, PhD, PMHNP-BC, CNE, a Course Coordinator at FNU, recently published an article in the September – October edition of the National League for Nursing’s publication, Nursing Education Perspectives (NEP). The article, entitled “Psychotherapy Skills for Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Students in the Age of Competency-Based Education,” reviews a psychotherapy skills-based learning assignment at FNU that was adapted to meet developing competency-based learning standards.
Latino/a Student Interest Group builds connections at FNU
National Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, honors the contributions of Hispanic Americans to U.S. history, culture, and achievements. At Frontier Nursing University (FNU), these contributions are exemplified by Hispanic students like Emily Chavez. A clinical midwifery student based in New Jersey, Chavez recently helped a laboring Guatemalan patient successfully deliver vaginally after it was recommended that she undergo a cesarean section. Chavez used her ability to speak Spanish and her budding midwifery expertise to guide the patient through a successful labor and birth. The patient was deeply grateful that Chavez stepped in and that she could connect with her in her own language. It was also empowering for Chavez as a student midwife to witness the powerful effects of her attentive and attuned care. This story highlights the importance of Hispanic representation in nursing and midwifery.
Frontier Receives INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award for the Seventh Consecutive Year
Frontier Nursing University has received the 2024 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. As a recipient of the annual Health Professions HEED Award — a national honor recognizing U.S. health colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion — FNU will be featured, along with 70 other recipients, in the November/December 2024 issue of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. This is the seventh consecutive year FNU has been named as a Health Professions HEED Award recipient.
Celebrate National Midwifery Week with Free CE Courses and More
National Midwifery Week is October 6-12. Frontier Nursing University will be hosting our tenth annual Empower virtual event to celebrate. Enjoy FREE CEs and more! Take action this National Midwifery Week and educate others on the important care nurse-midwives provide to individuals and families.
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Carrie Belin is an experienced board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and a graduate of the Johns Hopkins DNP program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Georgetown University School of Nursing, and Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She has also completed fellowships at Georgetown and the University of California Irvine.
Angie has been a full-scope midwife since 2009. She has experience in various birth settings including home, hospital, and birth centers. She is committed to integrating the midwifery model of care in the US. She completed her master’s degree in nurse-midwifery at Frontier Nursing University (FNU) and her Doctorate at Johns Hopkins University. She currently serves as the midwifery clinical faculty at FNU. Angie is motivated by the desire to improve the quality of healthcare and has led quality improvement projects on skin-to-skin implementation, labor induction, and improving transfer of care practices between hospital and community midwives. In 2017, she created a short film on skin-to-skin called 
Justin C. Daily, BSN, RN, has ten years of experience in nursing. At the start of his nursing career, Justin worked as a floor nurse on the oncology floor at St. Francis. He then spent two years as the Director of Nursing in a small rural Kansas hospital before returning to St. Francis and the oncology unit. He has been in his current position as the Chemo Nurse Educator for the past four years. He earned an Associate in Nurse from Hutchinson Community College and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Bethel College.
Brandy Jackson serves as the Director of Undergraduate Nursing Programs and Assistant Educator at Wichita State University and Co-Director of Access in Nursing. Brandy is a seasoned educator with over 15 years of experience. Before entering academia, Brandy served in Hospital-based leadership and Critical Care Staff nurse roles. Brandy is passionate about equity in nursing education with a focus on individuals with disabilities. Her current research interests include accommodations of nursing students with disabilities in clinical learning environments and breaking down barriers for historically unrepresented individuals to enter the nursing profession. Brandy is also actively engaged in Interprofessional Education development, creating IPE opportunities for faculty and students at Wichita State. Brandy is an active member of Wichita Women for Good and Soroptimist, with the goal to empower women and girls. Brandy is a TeamSTEPPS master trainer. She received the DASIY Award for Extraordinary Nursing Faculty in 2019 at Wichita State University. 
Dr. Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine is an Arab-disabled queer woman of color with a PhD in Nursing and an interdisciplinary certificate in Disability Ethics from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Dr. Jamal-Eddine’s doctoral research explored spoken word poetry as a form of critical narrative pedagogy to educate nursing students about disability, ableism, and disability justice. Dr. Jamal-Eddine now serves as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in UIC’s Department of Disability and Human Development and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities (NOND). During her doctoral program, Sabrina served as a Summer Fellow at a residential National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute at Arizona State University (2023), a summer fellow at Andrew W. Mellon’s National Humanities Without Walls program at University of Michigan (2022), a Summer Research Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute (2021), and an Illinois Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities (LEND) trainee (2019-2020).
Vanessa Cameron works for Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nursing Education & Professional Development. She is also attending George Washington University and progressing towards a PhD in Nursing with an emphasis on ableism in nursing. After becoming disabled in April 2021, Vanessa’s worldview and perspective changed, and a recognition of the ableism present within healthcare and within the culture of nursing was apparent. She has been working since that time to provide educational foundations for nurses about disability and ableism, provide support for fellow disabled nursing colleagues, and advocate for the disabled community within healthcare settings to reduce disparities.
Dr. Lucinda Canty is a certified nurse-midwife, Associate Professor of Nursing, and Director of the Seedworks Health Equity in Nursing Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Columbia University, a master’s degree from Yale University, specializing in nurse-midwifery, and a PhD from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Canty has provided reproductive health care for over 29 years. Her research interests include the prevention of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity, reducing racial and ethnic health disparities in reproductive health, promoting diversity in nursing, and eliminating racism in nursing and midwifery.
Dr. Lisa Meeks is a distinguished scholar and leader whose unwavering commitment to inclusivity and excellence has significantly influenced the landscape of health professions education and accessibility. She is the founder and executive director of the DocsWithDisabilities Initiative and holds appointments as an Associate Professor in the Departments of Learning Health Sciences and Family Medicine at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Nikia Grayson, DNP, MSN, MPH, MA, CNM, FNP-C, FACNM (she/her) is a trailblazing force in reproductive justice, blending her expertise as a public health activist, anthropologist, and family nurse-midwife to champion the rights and health of underserved communities. Graduating with distinction from Howard University, Nikia holds a bachelor’s degree in communications and a master’s degree in public health. Her academic journey also led her to the University of Memphis, where she earned a master’s in medical anthropology, and the University of Tennessee, where she achieved both a master’s in nursing and a doctorate in nursing practice. Complementing her extensive education, she completed a post-master’s certificate in midwifery at Frontier Nursing University.
Dr. Tia Brown McNair is the Vice President in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and Executive Director for the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in Washington, DC. She oversees both funded projects and AAC&U’s continuing programs on equity, inclusive excellence, high-impact practices, and student success. McNair directs AAC&U’s Summer Institutes on High-Impact Practices and Student Success, and TRHT Campus Centers and serves as the project director for several AAC&U initiatives, including the development of a TRHT-focused campus climate toolkit. She is the lead author of From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education (January 2020) and Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success (July 2016 and August 2022 Second edition).