Leadership, Faculty & Staff

Pat Farmer, RN, DNP, FNP-c, Associate Professor
Dr. Farmer served as Nurse Expert for the Center to Champion Nursing in America, Washington DC, and as a Strategy Consultant for a national project to advance nursing education. She has more than 20 years’ experience as Family Nurse Practitioner in family practice, occupational health, and emergency services. She also has extensive experience within emergency services as a staff nurse, unit manager, paramedic, pre-hospital coordinator, and clinical consultant for pre-hospital Emergency Medical Services agency. Her clinical background spans across the spectrum from urban teaching hospitals to Critical Access rural hospitals and clinics.
Dr. Farmer has over 20 years of teaching experience at all levels of nursing education from associate degree to doctoral level, in both face-to-face and online formats. Her research and scholarship in nursing has focused on shiftwork adaptation, with presentations both nationally and internationally, rural nursing, nursing education models and interprofessional care.