In 2018, Frontier Nursing University (FNU) celebrated its 10th anniversary of the Doctor of Nursing Program (DNP). To honor the milestone, FNU held a contest, challenging DNP students and graduates to submit posters or videos demonstrating the importance of obtaining a DNP. We are proud to announce FNU graduate, Lisa Kiser, DNP, CNM, WHNP (Class 26) as the winner, who authored a poem titled “No Sufre Doble” [Don’t Suffer Twice]. Lisa works in Tucson, Ariz. which is nestled near the border of … [Read more...]
Alumni Spotlight: Aubre Tompkins BSN, RN, MSN, CNM
Frontier Nursing University (FNU) alumna Aubre Tompkins, BSN, RN, MSN, CNM is a self-proclaimed “midwife on the path,” a path which has positively impacted many mothers and fellow women’s health providers in her Colorado community. Aubre, who graduated CNEP (Class 54) in 2009, is a nurse-midwife at Women’s Health Group in Thornton, Colo. She is newly on Faculty at the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) and meanwhile, is also spearheading the construction and design of a brand-new … [Read more...]
Give a Gift from the Heart: Become a Preceptor at FNU
Frontier Nursing University’s (FNU) unique distance education model allows its students to complete required experiences in clinical sites in their own communities. Clinical preceptors make this model possible by serving as teachers, role models and mentors to our students across the country. Preceptors truly give meaningful gifts: their time, expertise and unwavering care. The FNU community is incredibly grateful for the thousands of preceptors who have guided its students. With that … [Read more...]
Alumni Spotlight: Jennifer Stevens DrPHc, CNM, MS
Frontier Nursing University (FNU) alumna Jennifer Stevens DrPHc, CNM, MS uses her nurse-midwifery degree to help women across the world. Based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jennifer is a midwife specialist for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Jennifer graduated in 2001 from Frontier’s CNEP (Class 28) and earned her MS in Midwifery at Philadelphia University. She worked for 10 years in a freestanding birth center before a stint with Midwives for Haiti (founded by a fellow FNU alumnus) … [Read more...]
Alumni Spotlight: Kristen Conroy, CNM
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...]
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