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FNP Specialty Coordinator Candidate Presentation: Christina Nieves DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, Family Nurse Practitioner, Private Practice, CT Associate Dean Graduate Nursing: Family Nurse Practitioner & Population Health tracks, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH
“The Evolution of Nursing: Trends and Influences”
Dr. Christina Nieves is a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), experienced in academia and clinical practice. Dr. Nieves has served in multiple academic leadership positions, most recently as Associate and Founding Dean of the FNP track at Southern New Hampshire University. Dr. Nieves has held positions of program director and chief nurse administrator at local universities and has a passion for quality program development creating several online, nurse practitioner tracks.
Dr. Nieves’s clinical practice includes working with various populations across the lifespan in emergency medicine. She was part of a team to implement the first retail health clinics in the state of Connecticut. She has served in a leadership capacity overseeing practice and quality for more than 2,000 providers across the nation, where she also developed programs to enhance quality including Peer Review, and Mentoring programs. Dr. Nieves has worked in public and community health, including a grant-funded position providing mobile health services to the underserved specifically Latino/Hispanic HIV and substance abusers where she developed clinical guidelines, a vaccine administration program, and a drop-in center for MSM population. Today, Dr. Nieves has a small, private practice certifying qualified patients for the Connecticut Medical Marijuana program, allowing her flexibility to work full time in an academic leadership role.
Dr. Nieves holds her BSN and MSN from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and her DNP from Kent State University. Her doctoral work focused on her area of interest: arts in healthcare. She received a small grant to complete her DNP project “An expressive arts intervention for the adult cancer survivor in the community support group setting.”
Dr. Nieves will further discuss the evolution of her career against an historical timeline of the nursing profession, and the vital role of faculty and other influences in her presentation titled, “The Evolution of Nursing: Trends and Influences.”
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