People Group Archives: Quality, Safety & Patient Outcomes

Kimberly Navarro is a Certified Nurse Midwife and Board Certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner who is passionate about providing high quality care, ameliorating maternal health racial inequities, combating maternal mortality and promoting the normalcy of pregnancy. She has over 15 years of experience in women’s health and has been involved in serving her community and […]

With 11 years of experience in acute care nursing, including medical-surgical, cardiac, neurology, pediatric emergency, diabetes education, and chronic conditions care management at variety of hospitals in Colorado and Florida, Hannah Binding is a seasoned healthcare professional. In addition to her clinical experience, she has also served as a full-time didactic, clinical, in-person and online […]

Susan Dyess is an experienced academician with solution-oriented leadership skills and meaningful results arising from community-based participatory action research initiatives. Skilled in organizational administration, curricular revision, resource utilization and program accreditation, she is committed to transformational impact by promoting collegial and student success. Education Selected Editorial Activities Selected Professional Activities

Sharon Tucker holds board certification as an APRN-CNS in psychiatric mental health nursing and as an Integrative Nurse Coach. Tucker is a change management expert and has cultivated research that has made significant and sustained impacts on science and practice in two areas: behavior change through mental health and wellness interventions and practice and organizational […]

Dr. Rebecca Koszalinski, PhD, MS, RN, FARN, CRRN, FIEL applies technological solutions to improve the health of older adults. She leads a Florida Department of Health funded study with a large team of investigators, including epidemiology, water, air and environmental scientists, bench and nurse scientists, and nursing students in the investigation of health outcomes of harmful […]

Since earning her BSN in 2006, 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 as a Nurse Manager at AdventHealth East Orlando, a role in which she directed and managed 24-hour clinical operations of two observation […]

Jennie Wagner has led and taught RN to BSN and RN to MSN programs at East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has actively served on several accreditation agencies. Currently, Wagner is a board member and secretary for the Lactation Education Accreditation and Approval Review Committee (LEAARC), an appointed […]

Associate Professor Vivian Schutz is the author of five books, nearly two dozen book chapters and more than 50 journal articles, primarily focusing on healthcare costs, healthcare economics evaluation and patient safety. In addition to her degrees in nursing, Schutz holds two MBAs — one in strategic management service and another in total quality management. Her […]

A Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Pediatric Mental Health Specialist, Valerie C. Martinez is passionate about pediatric healthcare. She leverages her extensive nursing experience working with neonates and children with chronic medical conditions in her research, which seeks to address mental health disparities among children and families, as well as improve health outcomes for children […]

Jean Davis’ passion for community health promotion grew from listening to her aunt and her mother, both nurses, discussing community health problems when she was a child. Today the Jonas Veterans Healthcare Scholar and assistant professor at the UCF College of Nursing channels her passion into research that focuses on physical activity support, promotion and […]