Keys to Success:Preparing Faculty

Cheryl Cummings Stegbauer, PhD, APNAssociate Dean for Academic Programs

& Director DNP Program

University of Tennessee Health Science CenterCollege of Nursing

Build on Strengths: Culture

• Health Science Campus• Culture of graduate education for health sciences• Clinical resources• Science resources • Interprofessional experiences• School of Public Health

• Liberal Arts• Broader graduate course resources • Business school

Build on Strengths: History

• Identify what you do well• Primary Care• Acute Care• Public Health

Build on Strengths: Faculty

• Identify Current & Future Leaders • Value Practice • Hold national APN board certification & state

APN license• Local and National leadership• Clinical experts with current practice• Expert on Advanced Practice education

• DNP Essentials• Regulation: Certification & Licensure

UTHSC Strengths: Culture

• 2000 Students• 7 Colleges

• Allied Health

• Dentistry

• Health Science Engineering

• Medicine

• Nursing

• Pharmacy

• Graduate Health Sciences

UTHSC Strengths: History

• Health Science Center• 100 year history

• 1950 BSN

• 1972 Master’s

• 1988 PhD

• 1999 Practice Doctorate

• APN Faculty Leaders

Strengths: History & Faculty

• Preparing master’s APNs 30 years• Diverse programs of faculty practice

provide a resource for clinical inquiry and practice

• Most faculty hold advanced practice certification

UTHSC DNP Tracks

• Administration• Acute Care • Forensics• Mental Health • Primary Care • Public Health

Faculty

• Dr. Wendy Likes Class of 2005

• FNP & APN• GYN Oncology• Publication: JMST Female

Sexual Function• 1st Nurse inducted as

Fellow International Society for Study of Vulvovaginal Disease

Faculty

• Dr. Carol Thompson• FNP, ACNP, CNS• PhD Case Western• Practice ER VAMC• Active National

Leadership Acute Care• NIH Genetics Institute• Acute Care

Coordinator

Faculty

• Dr. Margaret Hartig• FNP• Active in Local, State,

& National NP groups• FNP Coordinator

Faculty

• Dr. Pat Cunningham• CNS, FNP• State, National

Leadership Mental Health

• Active Practice• PsychFNP Option

Faculty

• Dr. Craig Stotts• FNP • DrPH Univ. of Texas• Public Health

Coordinator

Faculty

• Dr. Susan Patton• PNP, FNP• Pediatric practice• Active National

Leadership IAFN• Forensic Nursing

Coordinator

Faculty

• Dr. Leslie McKeon• CNL Leadership• Leadership with

practice partners• Administration

Coordinator

Strengths: Mission & Commitment

• To Prepare Nurse Leaders for Excellence Today and Tomorrow• Faculty committed to excellence and progress• Faculty comfort with change & risk • Wisdom for timing • Leadership prepared to guide

2010 Vision

• 1999 Admitted to practice doctorate• 65 Graduates of the Practice Doctorate

• 2005 Admitted DNP/PhD 2005• 2 students

http://www.aacn.nche.edu/DNP/pdf/conf/Stakeholders05/MRowser.pdf

• 2006 CNL 2006 with Practice Partners• 2010 All MSN APN programs to DNP