Professional Service

  • National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence . Role: Early Career Director . Board Member. 12/01/2019 - 12/01/2021
  • American Association of Critical Care Nurses . Chapter Secretary . 01/01/2018 - 01/01/2020
  • Western Institute of Nursing . Role: Co-chair, Chair . Gerontology Special Interest Group . 01/01/2017 - 01/01/2019
  • Gerontological Society of America . Representative to the Health Sciences Section . 01/01/2013 - 01/01/2015

Internal Service

  • College of Nursing Research Committee . 07/01/2019 - present. College service.
  • U Health Pressure Ulcer Committee . Member , 01/01/2019 - present. Other service.

Honors & Awards

  • Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing . National Hartford Center for Gerontological Nursing Excellence , 11/2020
  • Vice President's Clinical and Translational Scholar . University of Utah , 12/01/2019
  • Edna Stilwell Writing Award . Journal of Gerontological Nursing , 11/01/2019
  • Research Dissertation Award . Sigma Theta Tau International , 10/26/2019
  • Critical Care Nurse of the Quarter . St. Luke's Health System , 07/01/2017
  • Research Manuscript Award . Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing Society , 06/01/2017
  • Outstanding Dissertation Award . University of Utah College of Nursing , 05/01/2017
  • Outstanding PhD Student Award . University of Utah College of Nursing , 05/01/2016
  • Company Grade Officer of the Quarter . 446 Aeromedical Staging Squadron, U.S. Air Force Reserve, 07/01/2008
  • Navy Achievement Medal . United States Navy , 05/01/2007
  • Outstanding Preceptor Award. United States Naval Hospital, Okinawa, Japan , 04/01/2006
  • U.S. Navy Nurse Corps Junior Nurse Corps Council Volunteerism Award. United States Navy , 01/01/2003
  • Student Nurses Association Professionalism Award. University of Illinois Student Nurse's Association , 12/01/2001