Frontier Nursing University (FNU) Alumni Christina Felten, DNP, CNM, RNC-OB, has spent her career serving others. At the time of her high school graduation, she was a nurse’s aide who quickly became an EMT. However, her life changed when she was floated to labor and delivery and fell in love with supporting women during birth. “I had already been accepted into a different program at Bloomsburg University, but after spending some time in the labor unit, I knew I had found my calling. I got in … [Read more...]
FNU Graduates Realize Dream of Opening Their Own Nurse-Midwifery Practice
Not even a pandemic could end this lifelong dream. Going to school while working full time and raising a family didn’t stand in the way either. Some things are just meant to be. That’s how Naomi Elizabeth Drucker, MSN, CNM, Bridge 138, and Lilit Baldjyan Sarkissian, RN, MSN, CNM, Class 143, felt when they held a grand opening for Los Angeles Midwives on December 16, 2020. The grand opening was virtual, but the building, the practice, the midwives, and their guests were all quite real. It was … [Read more...]
Frontier Offers Many Continuing Education Opportunities
Each year Frontier Nursing University (FNU) offers a variety of continuing education (CE) courses for students as well as practicing nurse practitioners and nurse-midwives. Most often, these are provided through live virtual events, but the courses are recorded and remain available for much longer. In this unprecedented year when higher numbers of healthcare workers are relying on virtual CE opportunities than ever before, FNU wanted to remind its community of the valuable courses currently … [Read more...]
FNU’s 2020 Diversity Events in Review
Frontier Nursing University (FNU) is built on a Culture of Caring with a mission to educate nurse practitioners and nurse-midwives who will go out and care for diverse and underserved communities. In 2010, FNU took a step further in defining goals of expanding diversity and inclusion throughout the university and the greater healthcare community by implementing the Diversity Impact Program. FNU leadership designed the Diversity Impact Program to promote an inclusive learning and workforce … [Read more...]
Frontier University Celebrates Their 2020 Homecoming Award Winners
Each year, Frontier Nursing University (FNU) alumni and faculty gather for fun, fellowship, sharing memories and to celebrate the accomplishments of their peers at the annual Homecoming event. Although COVID-19 prevented the university from hosting an in-person gathering this fall, the university still worked hard to honor those who have shined exceptionally bright this year through its annual Homecoming awards. The annual Homecoming awards fall into two primary categories including The … [Read more...]
More Nurse-Midwives Needed to Address Racial Disparities in Maternity Care
Every October, we pause to celebrate National Midwifery Week and the important work of midwives around the globe. This year was particularly special given the World Health Organization’s (WHO) designation of 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. We also use this time to bring greater awareness to the rising maternal mortality rate in the U.S. Approximately 700 women die per year during pregnancy and childbirth, the most of any developed country, leaving hundreds of newborns to … [Read more...]
FNU Spotlight: The Remarkable Friendship of Dr. Linda Cole, DNP, CNM, and Lisa Ross, DNP, CNM
In 1994, Dr. Linda Cole began her career as a nurse-midwife at the Maternity Center of East Tennessee. During Dr. Cole’s time at the maternity center, it received a new name to honor an exceptional nurse-midwife who had worked at the facility, had served as a mentor to Linda, and the Maternity Center of East Tennessee became the Lisa Ross Birth and Women’s Center in 2000. Seven years after the birth center renaming, Dr. Cole found herself on the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) … [Read more...]
Featured Preceptor: Cohava Kasaev-Chanimov
At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality healthcare to underserved and rural populations. Frontier Nursing University (FNU) preceptor Cohava Kasaev-Chanimov, is being honored as FNU’s Featured Preceptor for the 2020 summer term due to her … [Read more...]
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