School of Nursing

Tyesha Jackson

Tyesha Jackson (MSN-IQS Class of Fall 2022) recently accepted a position with the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses with AORN as a Perioperative Informatics Nurse. She will be working with their Syntegrity product and will be primarily assisting with building out and maintaining their Surgery Scheduling Procedure List. Her goal is to sit the ANCC Informatics Nursing certification exam before she graduates in December. 

Linda Rowan

Linda Rowan, a current Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Linda was awarded first place for Health and Life Sciences for her business idea, a wearable monitor and app that delivers sound waves through earbuds to treat Attention Deficit Disorder, in the 2022 UT Tyler Big Idea Pitch competition.

Katherine Britt

Dr. Katherine “Kat” Britt (MSN-IQS 2021; PhD UT Austin 2021) is now a T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health. A Psychology/Mental Health Jonas Scholar 2021-2023, her work focuses on the utilization of religion and spirituality for coping during stress and illness, and how religious and spiritual practices impact mental and physical health, mainly in older adults, including those with cognitive impairment, dementia, and their caregivers. For her postdoctoral work, she will identify spiritual needs of persons with dementia and cognitive impairment to inform tailored spiritual care interventions to improve well-being, quality of life, and decrease depression. And she is also a Translational Research Scientist at BrainCheck, a start-up tech company that developed a neurocognitive battery and I’m helping develop the dementia caregiver digital therapeutic tool. 

Dr. Britt serves as the Assistant Director of the Luci Baines Johnson and Ian J. Turpin Center for Gerontological Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin, a Fellow of the Yale Program of Medicine, Religion, and Spirituality, and an Associate Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Danielle Gunter

Danielle Gunter, PhD graduate, was selected as a 2022 -2023 AACN Elevating Leaders in Academic Nursing (ELAN) nursing faculty leader. Danielle is the Director for Clinical Education for the Loewenberg College of Nursing at the University of Memphis.

Cory Church

Cory Church, PhD graduate and faculty at Texas Woman's University, and Kristine Morris from Texas Tech were awarded Honorable Mention, Research for their poster entitled Turnover in the Critical Care Work Environment: Targeting Competencies for Self-Care at the AACN Transform 2022 conference.

Arthur Leyva

Arthur Leyva, a 2023 graduate of the MSN-Informatics, Quality, and Safety program, is now certified in Informatics Nursing by the ANCC.  Only 66% of people pass this certification on their first attempt, so we are justifiably proud of Arthur!

Debra Graham

Debra Graham, DNP, MBA, RN-BC (DNP Graduate – 2021 Cohort) Since graduation, Dr. Graham has been promoted to Vice President - Clinical Informatics with Physicians Services Group of Florida, a physician services group in Florida and South Carolina. The company provides physician and nurse practitioner services to the geriatric population in long-term care with a mix of in-person and virtual care to improve patient outcomes and reduce readmission rates. Dr. Graham is a healthcare professional anchored in nursing science with over 30 years of acute and skilled care clinical and healthcare information technology experience with a focus on building trusted relationships by thinking like a nurse, remaining relevant, and transforming care with evidence-based practice.