Adult Gerontology and Acute Care
The adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioner (AG-ACNP) is educated and prepared to provide care to acutely and critically ill adult patients regardless of setting. While many AG-ACNPs work in a hospital setting, they are also based in special practices in acute care settings.
With the expanding hospital role of advanced practice nursing, AG-ACNPs are also uniquely positioned to provide collaborative hospital care for patients of primary care providers. Each of our AG-ACNP faculty members has practice roles.
- Melissa Czarapata, DNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-BC
- Gill Heart & Vascular Institute
- Holly Chitwood, DNP, APRN, PNP-C, AGACNP-BC
- Markey Cancer Center, Medical Oncology
- Candice Falls, PhD, MSN, ACNP-BC, CVNP-BC
- Gill Heart & Vascular Institute
- Sheila Melander, PhD, APRN, ACNP-BC, FCCM, FAANP, FAAN
- Norton Healthcare
- Clinic Director of the Phyllis D. Corbitt Community Health Center
- Lynn Kelso, MSN, APRN, FCCM, FAANP
- UKHC Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Family Practice
Family nurse practitioners provide health care for individuals with a variety of episodic and chronic health problems with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. Family nurse practitioners provide care to individuals throughout their whole lives, including women's childbearing years.
College of Nursing faculty members who practice in the primary care setting are:
- Kent Brouwer, DNP, AGACNP-BC, APRN
- Baptist Health Lexington
- Anthony Carney, DNP, APRN, CCRN, FNP-C
- Phyllis D. Corbitt Community Health Center
- Julianne Ewen, DNP, APRN, FAANP
- CHI Saint Joseph Health
- Lori Fugate, DNP, MSN, APRN, NP-C, WHNP-BC
- Phyllis D. Corbitt Community Health Center
- Angela Grubbs, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC
- UK College of Dentistry Wellness Clinic
- Phyllis D. Corbitt Community Health Center
- Angela Hensley, DNP, FNP-BC
- UKHC Digestive Health-Gastroenterology
- Julie Marfell, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP
- Phyllis D. Corbitt Community Health Center
- Sheila Melander, PhD, APRN, ACNP-BC, FCCM, FAANP, FAAN
- Clinic Director of the Phyllis D. Corbitt Community Health Center
- Laura Schrader, MSN, RN, APRN
- Bluegrass Orthopedics
- Christina Thompson, DNP, APRN, FNP-C
- Phyllis D. Corbitt Community Health Center
Leadership and Management
DNP graduates in administrative and population-based (public health) specialties focus their practices on aggregates: populations, systems, organizations, and state or national policies.
These specialties generally do not have direct patient care responsibilities. However, DNP graduates practicing at the systems/organization level are still called upon to define actual and emerging problems and design aggregate-level health interventions. These activities require that DNP graduates be competent in advanced organizational, systems or community assessment techniques, in combination with an expert-level understanding of nursing and related biological and behavioral sciences.
The DNP graduate preparing for advanced specialty practice at the population/organizational/systems level demonstrates competencies in conducting comprehensive organizational, systems, and/or community assessments to identify aggregate health or system needs; working with diverse stakeholders for inter- or intra-organizational achievement of health-related organizational or public policy goals; and designing patient-centered care delivery systems or policy-level delivery models.
- Karen Stefaniak, PhD, RN
- Baptist Health Lexington Nursing Consultant
Pediatrics
The pediatric nurse practitioner provides specialized healthcare across a variety of settings to children from birth to young adult.
• The acute care pediatric nurse practitioner provides family-centered care to pediatric patients with acute, complex, critical, and chronic illness.
• The primary care pediatric nurse practitioner provides care focused on health maintenance, health promotion and assessment/management of common acute and chronic conditions in children.
Both acute care and primary care pediatric nurse practitioners have in-depth knowledge and experience to meet the specialized physiologic and psychological needs of children.
Kentucky Children's Hospital is located within UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital and provides advanced care for children. The children’s hospital provides specialized emergency transport and the Neonatal ICU provides Level III care.
College of Nursing faculty members provide support to advance evidence-and research-based nursing practice in the children's hospital.
- Morgan E. Chojnacki, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC
- Adolescent Medicine Clinic, UK HealthCare
- Leslie K. Scott, PhD, PPCNP-BC, MLDE, CDES
- Pediatric Endocrinology, Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center, UK HealthCare
Psych/Mental Health
The psychiatric clinical liaison nurse collaborates with the health care team to provide optimal care for patients with challenging mental health care needs; assists in the identification of psychodynamic and psychosocial issues impacting the consistency and quality of mental health care of patients; provides consultation to unit nursing staff in developing successful intervention strategies in patient/family situations to increase patient, family and staff satisfaction and promote safety; assesses, makes recommendations for action, develops and supports the implementation of specialty specific organization initiatives.
- Andrew Makowski, DNP, PMHNP
- Team Blue Primary Care Clinic
- Chizimuzo Okoli, PhD, MPH, MSN, RN
- Eastern State Hospital
- Holly Gray, DNP, PMHNP-BC
- LifeStance Behavioral Health
- Lovoria Williams, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP, TTS
- Eastern State Hospital
