David Liguori – Nursing Faculty Profile, University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
David Liguori, Nursing Faculty at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS), brings extensive clinical experience to the classroom, including work in surgical intensive care and emergency nursing, as well as experience as a nurse practitioner specializing in adult health and palliative care.
Liguori works primarily with doctoral students, guiding them from their very first practicum course all the way through graduation. Despite the online format, he emphasizes the strong rapport he builds with students over time, describing the reward of watching them grow, not just as clinicians, but as writers and researchers developing their doctoral projects.
His approach reflects USAHS’s broader commitment to personalized, long-term mentorship, helping graduate nursing students build both clinical competence and confidence throughout their academic journey.
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David Liguori – Nursing Faculty Profile, University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
[00:00:00] David Liguori (Nursing Faculty): I specialized in critical care. I did surgical intensive care and also emergency room, and then I became a nurse practitioner, and I specialized in adult health and also palliative care. [00:00:14] David Liguori (Nursing Faculty): One thing that’s unique about University of St. Augustine is we actually have a designated person that will place the student into the clinical setting, which you won’t find in any other university. It’s really incumbent on the student to find their clinical practicum in other universities, but we have one dedicated person that will find placements for the students. [00:00:39] David Liguori (Nursing Faculty): I would have to say the rapport, because it’s, even though we’re online, we still, especially with the doctoral students, which I work mostly with, we really develop a good rapport despite not being in person, and I am with them until they graduate. So the students that I have in the practicum courses, we’re with them in practicum one all the way until they graduate. So I really get to see them grow, not only as a professional, as a professional student, but also in their writing and their project development. So that’s really exciting to watch.
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