People Group Archives: Acute Care

Lecturer Latonia Green has held a variety of clinical appointments as a registered nurse, head nurse and nurse manager at hospitals in Tennessee and Florida. Most recently, she served as a nurse manager at AdventHealth East Orlando, directing and managing 24-hour clinical operations of two observation and medical telemetry units. After earning her DNP degree, […]

Frances Armstrong, clinical assistant professor and graduate simulation coordinator at UCF’s College of Nursing, is a dual-certified adult-gerontology acute care and primary care nurse practitioner with a diverse clinical background including sleep medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care. She continues to maintains a clinical practice in critical care medicine in addition to her academic appointments […]

Assistant Professor Jennifer Crook is a nationally recognized nutritional epidemiologist and nurse scientist whose work investigates how nutritional insecurity becomes biologically embedded to drive inflammation, symptom burden and cancer disparities. Her research integrates omics‑based biomarkers, nutritional epidemiology and community‑engaged methods to develop clinically actionable tools that advance cancer outcomes. In a previous faculty role at […]

Hyojung “Kay” Kim, a registered dietician nutritionist, is a lecturer at UCF’s College of Nursing where she teaches nutrition. Her research focuses on nutritional epidemiology with an emphasis on the role of nutritional and dietary factors in chronic disease risk and health outcomes. Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, she investigates […]

Two-time alumnus Isaiah Moser is a lecturer at UCF’s College of Nursing Cocoa campus. Prior to his academic appointment at UCF, Moser was a paramedic and travel nurse at various hospital systems in Florida. After becoming a board certified adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioner, Moser transitioned his clinical practice to acute care where he […]

Two-time alumna Amanda “Mandi” Houston is a lecturer and director of the Healthcare Simulation graduate program at the University of Central Florida College of Nursing. A certified healthcare simulation educator, her research interests focus on the intersection of evidence-based practice and nursing education. Houston’s clinical background is in a variety of settings including neuroscience, orthopedics, […]

Jayne Willis is a nationally recognized nurse executive and educator whose career has focused on building high-performing healthcare systems that deliver excellence in quality, safety, patient experience and workforce engagement. Over four decades, she has held progressive leadership roles culminating in service as chief nurse executive and vice president for nursing at Orlando Health, where she […]

Lecturer and two-time alumnus Sotos G. Djiovanis has been in continuous clinical practice in Central Florida for more than a decade. He has routinely served as a clinical preceptor, education resource nurse, and member of hospital shared governance councils. His clinical expertise spans adult and geriatric populations in both acute care and home health settings. […]

An experienced nurse educator at the undergraduate and graduate levels, Melissa “Missy” Radecki currently serves as director of the pre-licensure undergraduate programs at UCF’s College of Nursing. Her clinical background is in adult critical care. She is a National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) item writer, an expert on NCLEX preparation and the Next Generation NCLEX, […]

Vivian Schutz, a clinical associate professor at UCF’s College of Nursing, has more than 21 years of experience in nursing education in Brazil and the United States. Schutz has extensive clinical, administrative and leadership experience in intensive care, emergency nursing and healthcare management. Prior to and during her academic career, she served as a nurse […]