School Update

New Faculty

Shirley Boggs, DNP, CNE Assistant Lecturer I hold a Master of Science in Nursing Leadership and a Graduate Certificate in Health Care Education, including a Doctor of Nursing Practice. I have taught full time as Nursing Faculty for over 8 years and over 10 years as online nursing faculty. In Nursing I started as a CNA, then an LPN, to RN and on as Director of Nursing in LTC Nursing facilities. My nursing experiences have focused on geriatrics, skilled nursing and especially on psychiatric nursing practice. Teaching has always been my passion and joy! I started out to become a high school teacher before developing my interest in nursing. I love to travel and just returned from Australia to see my son and grandson. I have also traveled to Egypt, Niger and Malawi and even rode on a camel and saw the pyramids in Egypt. I have three grown children and six grandchildren that range in age from three to age 30. (I relocated from Texas this summer to be closer to my family). I also have two very spoiled Golden Retrievers!

Jennifer M.L. Stephens, MA, PhD, RN, OCN, CCNE Assistant Professor I am a long-time nurse who has worked in many clinical areas including ICU, cardiology, home care, medical-surgical, geriatrics, tertiary, and on and on. My specialty and passion is oncology and I have extensive clinical experience in both the US and Canada working as a floor nurse, unit manager, clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and clinical nurse educator (CNE) in medsurg oncology, cancer critical care, cancer outpatient clinics, radiation suites, and in bone marrow transplant (BMT) and hematopoietic stem cell transplant units (HSCT). My PhD in nursing is from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) where my dissertation research focused on oncology patient identity specific to hematological cancer patients. For the past few years, I have worked as a professor and nursing instructor for the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT, Vancouver, Canada) and for Athabasca University (AU, Alberta, Canada). At AU, I served as BN Program Director and Associate Dean Undergraduate Programs. I am excited to be in Wyoming where I can continue to pursue research specific to oncology and the unique rural/frontier patient experience. Additionally, I have ongoing projects on nursing history, nursing education and curriculum revision, and the philosophy of nursing specific to transhumanism and nursing ontology.

Retired Faculty

Pamela Clarke, RN, MPH, PhD, FAAN Carrie Barr, MSN, RN Director of Undergraduate Nursing/ Associate Lecturer Carrie has served as a nurse for the past 16 years and worked as an ICU nurse in areas ranging from rural Georgia to metro Atlanta to an Alaska Native serving hospital in Anchorage, Alaska. She is a certified predictive health partner and has worked as a nurse coach and case manager for Cigna serving employees in factories across Northwest Georgia. Carrie has been an educator for the past 7 years, with experience teaching in both ADN and BSN programs. She served as program coordinator at Alaska Pacific University, where she was part of a team who created a new ACEN accredited ADN nursing program founded on the concept of cultural safety. Carrie’s scholarly and teaching interests include methods for teaching cultural safety to bedside nurses and nursing students, deliberate practice related to nursing skill acquisition, ICU delirium, Targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest, and basically anything cardiac related. She lives in Laramie where she enjoys the outdoors with her husband, Brian, and their dog, Rose.

Jessica Bartlett, DNP, CNM, RN, IBCLC I have spent most my life in the healthcare setting starting as a CNA in my teens. I have been a nurse since 2011 and a Doctorate of Nursing Practice and Nurse Midwife since 2016. I primarily work in outpatient and community health settings in clinical practice. I have had the opportunity to work in education both as a patient educator and then as a nursing instructor for those who are in all levels of education from associate to graduate programs 2012 and this has continued to be an amazing experience of learning and growth. In addition to my professional life, I am a mother of 5 who loves to garden and spend my days soaking up the sun in the garden or in the mountains hiking and camping with my family.

Faculty/Staff Awards: Innovation in Teaching Award and Outstanding Staff Member (over 5 years)

Congratulations to Nursing Faculty member Paula Kihn and Nursing Staff member LeAnn Amen. Both were recognized at the College of Health Sciences Outstanding Faculty and Staff Awards Celebration on April 14, 2022. Kihn received the College of Health Sciences “Innovation in Teaching” award. The Wyoming Innovations in Teaching Award recognizes not only excellence in teaching, but also innovative ways in which teaching is delivered to students. Amen received the “Outstanding Staff Member (over 5 Years)” award, which recognizes an outstanding staff member within the College of Health Sciences who has made significant contributions.