Category: Preceptors
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Student Spotlight: Mara-Joanne Derinor aims to improve clinical education with DNP
The schedule of a healthcare professional can be challenging to navigate. Yet, Mara-Joanne Derinor manages to work as a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) while pursuing her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), authoring books and more.
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Staff Spotlight: Circle of Caring recipient Sharon Tankersley
Through her role as Student Services Coordinator at Frontier Nursing University, Sharon Tankersley has demonstrated a commitment to the success of students at the university. Because of her deep commitment to students, Tankersley was a recent recipient of FNU’s Circle of Caring Award.
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Student Spotlight: Advocacy is essential to nurse-midwifery for FNU student Chantel Haynes
For Frontier Nursing University (FNU) student Chantel Haynes, advocacy has always been a critical part of her journey and career in healthcare. A resident of Sedalia, Missouri, Haynes has been a staunch advocate for informed choice and autonomy among birthing people, Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC), and for acceptable working conditions among nurses and healthcare…
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Student Spotlight: In honor of her children, Cortni McCall pursues MSN to help others
For Cortni McCall of Atwood, Tennessee, her decision to pursue a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) as a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner was inspired by the situations that she had endured personally. McCall lost her ex-husband, a military veteran who dealt with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Student Spotlight: Dr. Torica Fuller expands practice with Women’s Health Care NP Post-Graduate Certificate
Though she has a well-established career in nursing with an extensive educational background and several formal recognitions for her work, Dr. Torica Fuller, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, FNP-BC, CDP, CGRN, CPN, NRCME, of Raeford, North Carolina, is consistently looking for ways to gain more knowledge in order to better serve her patients. That’s why she is…
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Featured Preceptor: Freda Hubbard goes above and beyond for students
Throughout her time working as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), Freda Hubbard of Bowling Green, Kentucky, has not only served countless patients, but she has also passed on her knowledge and passion to aspiring FNPs. Hubbard serves as a preceptor for students at Greenview Medical Group The Allen Clinic in Bowling Green, where she has…
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Meet the Program Director: Dr. Khara’ Jefferson, DNP Program Director
Throughout her time working with FNU, Khara’ Jefferson, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, CHC has been a champion for higher education among nurses. As Director of the university’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program, she provides essential support to students in the program. Dr. Jefferson knows first-hand the benefits that come from earning a DNP degree through…
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Alumni Spotlight: Fawn Workman, FNP, PMHNP, expands holistic wellness practice in 2023
When Fawn Workman of Lynchburg, Virginia, decided to advance her career in nursing by pursuing her Master of Science in Nursing in a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program, she chose Frontier Nursing University (FNU) and earned her MSN in 2014. Four years later, she returned to FNU to add a Post-Graduate Certificate (PGC) as a…