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Advanced Practice Community Health Systems
Nursing
APCHSN Alumni
The APCHSN program
cirriculum prepares students as a Generalist in community
health nursing. The program also offers several focal/cognate
study
options. Population Health Specialist cognate areas include:
Communities for Youth, Cross-Cultural Nursing, Healthy Aging,
Occupational Health Nursing, and Rural Health. In addition,
MN/MPH concurrent degree and building-your-own programs are
options in the APCHSN program.
Meet APCHSN alumni
and hear about what they've done in the past, what they are
doing now, and how the APCHSN prepared them for their current
occupation. Video streaming of the alumni interviews averages
eight minutes.
Robin
Evans-Agnew
Director of Program Development
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Employer:
American Lung Association of Washington
APCHSN Area of Study/Cognate:
Policy & Program Development
Brief Bio:
Robin has been interested
in health disparities since he was in high school. While
working on his first degree in Anthropology, Robind
saw huge disparities among people with disabilities.
He found that nursing and the APCHSN program could help
him address these disparities. He says, "The dynamics
of the program built into my manifesto for myself in
terms of what I wanted to do for nursing and what I
wanted to do change in the world."
Click here to view the video interview
(coming soon)
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Teresa Guthrie
Program Manager
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Employer:
Cancer Information Service for the grant Spirit of Eagles:
The American Indian and Alaskan Native Leadership Initiative
on Cancer
APCHSN Area of Study/Cognate:
Cross-Cultural
Brief Bio:
Teresa came the the APCHSN program as an oncology hospice
nurse. Teresa wanted to her skills to the advantage
of communities. She spent her APCHSN clinical in the
Nooksack tribal community in Snohomish county and under
her current job is able to combine her oncology nursing
skills, and APCHSN skills in serving Native communities
by carring out leadership initiatives under the grant.
"I received a lot of education and mentoring and
actually being prepared to go out and work with a diverse
community. The cirriculum is laid out step by step-there's
a lot of support and mentoring along the way."
Click here to view the video interview
(coming soon)
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Noreen Olson
System Manager Occupational Health
and Safety
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Employer:
Providence Health Systems Headquarters
APCHSN Area of Study/Cognate:
Ocupational Health Nursing
Brief Bio:
Noreen has been a CCU nurse, worked at an infusion clinic
for AIDS patients, and has worked with cancer patients.
Noreen focused on Occupational Health Nursing in the
APCHSN program. Today Noreen uses program and policy
development in her 4 areas of responsibility at Providence-workers
compensation, occupational health, safety, and infection
control. "My program at the UW wan an ecellent
prepatory environment for this job I have now.I came
out well prepared, had ample opportunity for dialogue,
and the professors were always available."
Click here to view the video interview
(coming soon)
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