Amy Herrington – Nursing Faculty Profile, University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
With 36 years of nursing experience, USAHS Nursing Faculty member Amy Herrington brings a wealth of clinical knowledge to her students. She has wanted to be a nurse since she was six years old, and today she helps prepare the next generation of nurses while supporting them throughout their graduate education.
One part of her role is helping students find clinical placements through USAHS’s national network of partner sites. By connecting students with opportunities in the communities where they already live and work, she helps make it possible for them to build clinical experience without putting their careers and lives on hold.
Herrington also teaches interprofessional and collaborative practice, bringing nursing, occupational therapy, and EdD students together to learn from one another. She values these opportunities for students to better understand the roles of other healthcare professionals and see how collaboration can improve patient care.
Her teaching philosophy is centered on putting learning into practice. Students don’t just learn concepts in the classroom. They have opportunities to apply them, build their skills, and connect what they’re learning to the work they’ll do in their careers.
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Amy Herrington – Nursing Faculty Profile, University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
[00:00:00] Amy Herrington (Nursing Faculty): I remember at age six or seven knowing that I was going to be a nurse and telling people that I went to school with as a six and seven-year-old that I was gonna be a nurse when I grew up, and I’ve been a nurse for 36 years. [00:00:15] Amy Herrington (Nursing Faculty): We collaborate with the students to understand where they live and then we have partners across the United States, and we place those students in those clinical sites that meet the program learning outcomes for the program that they’re in. And we place students within the community that they live in and they work in because we know that those students will return to that community to serve, to work, to live post-graduation. [00:00:49] Amy Herrington (Nursing Faculty): I love my interprofessional and collaborative practice course because I think it’s interesting for nurses and occupational therapists and, and students that are working on their EDD to learn about with and from each other because I hear them say, “I never knew you did,” “I never knew I could.” Um, and, and so I think that’s great. Um, the other thing I like about that class, and I commit to our students, is what you learn today you’ll put into practice tomorrow.
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