It took Kristen Conroy, CNM several years assisting births as an RN before she realized her true calling: nurse-midwifery. Kristen received her BSN in 1994 and was content raising her family and continuing her work as an RN. That is until her family relocated to Allen, TX and she discovered the Allen Birthing Center. Allen Birthing Center is a full scope midwife-owned free-standing birth center in the Dallas area. It specializes in Out-of-Hospital (OOH) births, including home and birthing … [Read more...]
FNU Grad Delivers Her Own Baby – Story Goes Viral
A heartwarming story picked up by the New York Post, Fox News, MSN and Yahoo, among others, features a Frontier Nursing University (FNU) midwifery alumnus delivering her own child via cesarean section. On March 11, 2018, Emily Dial, CNM, who graduated from FNU’s women’s health care nurse practitioner program in 2010 and the nurse-midwife program in 2011, scrubbed in for surgery as she was being prepared for her third child’s C-section delivery. This is a process Dial has done over 700 times … [Read more...]
The Gift of Precepting – Susan Clapp, CNM
In the life of Susan Clapp, CNM, precepting is a gift that is both given and received. Susan was working in Labor & Delivery after receiving her LPN in 1992. At the time, one of her instructors who was a nurse-midwife got Susan very interested in the profession, but life took over. Between a husband and two babies, Susan’s dream of being a midwife sat in the wings until another midwife started working on her floor. Susan enrolled in Frontier Nursing University (FNU) in Class 81 and … [Read more...]
Building a Legacy in Haiti: Spotlight on Alumna Nadene Brunk Eads
A Frontier Nursing University (FNU) alumna and midwifery legacy celebrated her retirement with purpose this month. Nadene Brunk Eads, CNM, was honored on Saturday, January 20, with a party and special fundraiser for Midwives For Haiti, the organization she founded and has poured herself into for the last decade. When Nadene graduated from Frontier as a nurse-midwife, a mission trip to Haiti, the poorest nation in the Americas, changed the course of her life. She was struck by the statistics … [Read more...]
FNU Celebrates Recent Jonas Scholar Graduates
Frontier Nursing University (FNU) is proud to announce four Post-Master’s DNP students as Jonas Scholars for the 2016-2018 Cohort. FNU first forged a partnership with the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare in 2015, with the goal to identify and invest in high-potential doctoral nursing Scholars. The Scholars program supports educational development of new nursing faculty and stimulates models for joint faculty appointments between schools of nursing and clinical affiliates. The … [Read more...]
A Look into the FNU Student Experience
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a student at Frontier Nursing University (FNU)? The video below offers an inside look at FNU. Hear from nurse-midwife and nurse practitioner students as they describe their unique experiences. You can also read some of their comments below. Do you have a story of your own to share? Send it to us at FNUnews@frontier.edu. Madison Huff, Nurse Practitioner Student “The distance education has been really great because with this day and age both … [Read more...]
FNU Alumni and Faculty Contribute to Textbook Awarded First Place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Maternal-Child Health
Frontier Nursing University (FNU) is excited to announce that the book, Freestanding Birth Centers: Innovation, Evidence, Optimal Outcomes, written by several FNU faculty members and alumni, was awarded first place in the 2017 American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards in Maternal-Child Health. Since 1969, AJN has published an annual list of the best in nursing publishing. The AJN Book of the Year program is a prestigious competition that garners the attention of the medical … [Read more...]
In Search of a Preceptor: Roxanne Lapointe Finds Beverly Wilson
Searching for a preceptor, Frontier Nursing University (FNU) 2017 graduate Roxanne LaPointe didn’t expect to find a mentor and friend through just a sweatshirt, yet that’s exactly what happened. During her first days as an FNU student, Roxanne purchased a university sweatshirt, thinking of nothing more than supporting the school at which she’d recently enrolled. A few months later in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Roxanne took her daughter to a day surgery center to have tubes put in, wearing her … [Read more...]
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