Nursing

Jennifer Donwerth graduated from the University of Portland, Oregon, in 1987 with her BSN. She attended the university on an Air Force ROTC nursing scholarship. Following graduation, she began her nursing career as an Air Force officer, assigned to Wilford Hall in San Antonio, Texas. The Air Force provided excellent experience as a transplant/nephrology nurse. After six years on active duty, she entered the civilian world as a Transplant Coordinator at Methodist Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. While there, she began her MSN at The University of Texas at Arlington. She completed her degree as an Adult/Gerontological Nurse Practitioner in 1998. After completing ANCC certification in her specialty areas, she went to work in the Baylor Healthcare System, caring for older adults in Long-term Care and in the Elder House Calls program. She moved out of the metroplex and began teaching at Tarleton State University in 2007. Since then, she has taught Nursing Care of the Older Adult. This fall she will also teach Nursing Theory in the new MSN program at Tarleton. At present, she is working on her PhD in Nursing through The University of Texas at Tyler, and is on track to graduate in the spring of 2013.

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