Elizabeth Heavey, PhD, CNM, RN, is currently a professor and chairperson of graduate nursing in the School of Nursing at SUNY Brockport. She has practiced as a registered nurse, a certified nurse-midwife and an epidemiologist for more than thirty years. She is an expert colposcopist and a mentor for the ASCCP colposcopy program. She coordinates and supervises nurse practitioner students in the sexual and reproductive health clinic of the Hazen Center for Integrative Health. She teaches Pathophysiology for Advanced Practice Nursing, Using Information Systems and Analytical Methods, Community Based Epidemiology, Professional Writing for DNP, and Women’s Health Clinical Content in the FNP and AGPCNP clinical courses. In 2013, she was awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2016, she was awarded the SUNY Center for Online Teaching Excellence (COTE) Faculty Ambassador Award and serves as a COTE Fellow for New York State. In 2017, she was awarded the Faculty Advisement Award for Student-Faculty Mentoring and Engagement and has received the Faculty Influencer Award each year since its inception in 2020. Dr. Heavey is an early Open Educational Resource (OER) adopter and serves as an OER ambassador on campus. She is a leader in online and hybrid education initiatives and continuously develops online learning environments that foster student engagement and active learning. She is also a member of a faculty learning community focused on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to promote learning in educational settings. She has been exploring how to effectively utilize AI to support faculty in creating additional learning opportunities for students.
Dr. Heavey wrote and traditionally published Statistics for Nursing: A Practical Approach. It is a textbook designed to teach statistics in the context of nursing, currently in its fourth edition. It is being utilized by more than 130 nursing programs nationwide. It was the winner of Best Book of the Year from the American Journal of Nursing in 2018 and has been translated into Indonesian and Spanish with a global readership. Because OER options are now widely available, she is able to publish this new text with free access to help prepare all nurse practitioner students for their clinical readiness exam. She has assembled a team of expert nursing authors dedicated to the project, including faculty from nurse practitioner programs at SUNY Brockport, SUNY Upstate, and St. John Fisher University. The teamwork and collaboration of this group have been a true testament to the dedication of nursing faculty to promoting student success. When nursing students succeed, the benefit is felt by patients, communities, and the nursing profession as a whole. Dr. Heavey is incredibly proud of the nurse practitioner students we have the honor to work with every day and hopes this book will be a useful tool to help them reach their personal and professional goals.
Renee Biedlingmaier is an associate professor and the clinical coordinator for the family nurse practitioner program at SUNY Brockport. She also teaches in the doctor of nurse practice program. She practices at Rochester Immediate Care, an urgent care setting, and has experience in rural primary care, the emergency room, and long-term care settings. Dr. Biedlingmaier teaches Pharmacology for Advanced Practice Nursing, Health Assessment, FNP clinical practicum I, and Quality Improvement. She is the pharmacology content expert in multiple additional courses and in many of her scholarly publications.
Colleen Burgoyne, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at the State University of New York–Brockport. She also practices as a family nurse practitioner (FNP) in the Infectious Diseases Division of the Department of Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. Prior to becoming a nurse practitioner, Dr. Burgoyne practiced as a registered nurse in adult critical care.
Dr. Burgoyne’s clinical and research interests include understanding and documenting the patient experience of illness and health, the clinician experience of caregiving, and how these experiences shape and are shaped by healthcare systems.
She teaches Advanced Health Assessment, Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing & Leadership, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Diverse Populations, and Advanced Clinical Practice Populations and Systems I & II.
Dr. Burgoyne would like to thank her co-authors, all the faculty and staff at the School of Nursing at SUNY Brockport, the expert reviewers, and the publishing team for the support and expertise they provided in completing this project. She is grateful to her students for their feedback, challenging questions, and inspiration to keep learning. With deep appreciation, she would like to acknowledge her patients who have shared their experiences with her and allowed her to witness their suffering, pain, healing, and comfort.
Finally, Dr. Burgoyne would like to recognize her family and friends for their love and support and for enriching her life with joy, laughter, and community. She shares special thanks to her parents and siblings for challenging her with hard questions and inspiring her to write often and well.
Carnel C. Jackson, DNP, FNP-BC, RN, is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at SUNY Brockport and the co-owner of Jackson’s Health of Rochester, New York. Dr. Jackson practiced as an inpatient internist in the Hospital Medicine and Solid Oncology and Hematology specialties for several years prior to opening Jackson’s Health. Through his years practicing as a registered nurse and nurse practitioner, he mastered the integration of evidence-based practice and person-centered care to optimize patient outcomes. He regularly hosts community educational sessions to increase awareness of preventive health screenings and other topics, such as sexual health and awareness, cardiovascular disease, and men’s mental health. He has partnered with organizations such as the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Rochester Black Nursing Association, Men of Color Health Awareness Project (MOCHA), Trillium Health Center, Action for a Better Community, Common Ground Health, Forward Leading IPA (FLIPA), Outloud Sports, and more. These partnerships continue to increase access to equitable physical, mental, and general healthcare for those in both rural and urban regional communities. He currently teaches Advanced Health Assessment, Outcome Evaluation, Organizational Leadership and Finance, Health Policy, FNP Clinical Practicum III, and Advanced Clinical Practice Populations and Systems I & II. He is a community preceptor for FNP and AGPCNP students from SUNY Brockport, Utica University, University of Rochester, and St. John Fisher University. Prior to teaching at Brockport, Dr. Jackson instructed courses at the University of Rochester, University at Buffalo, and St. John Fisher University. He has truly found his home at SUNY Brockport and is honored to be part of this project.
Dr. Jackson would like to thank his friends and family for their continued support. A special thank you to his twin brother, Dr. Corey Jackson, who is also part of this great publication.
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