Assistant Professor and Curricular Transition Lead
University of Maryland-Baltimore School of Nursing - Baltimore, MD
Dr. Mueller-Burke has a clinical focus in the Neonatal Intensive Care arena where she spent most of her career as a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON) PhD program with a focus in neonatal neurophysiology. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in a genetics laboratory with a focus in stem cell biology. Her research area was in newborn brain injury and hypothermia to improve outcomes. She shifted her focus to leadership and educational based endeavors once joining the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Nursing in 2004 and has taught across all programs. She is a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner and continues to practice in the NICU at the University of Maryland Medical Center. In 2011 she served as the Faculty Chair of the DNP Transition Task Force incorporating the AACN Essentials, leading all the Advanced Practice tracks to the Doctor of Nursing practice (DNP) in the Fall 2014. She is currently the Chair of the Curricular Revisions Taskforce at UMSON, transforming entry and advanced practice programs to the 2021 Essentials. As an AACN Essentials Champion and Coach, and the co-lead for the AACN Essentials Curricular Workgroup, she is part of the national dialogue and consultant on curricular revisions and speaks at various venues around implementation of the AACN Essentials and the move to competency-based education.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM EST
