As we celebrate Nurses Month, we at USAHS wanted to get a sense of what a typical workday is like for a nurse manager. We asked alum Ahnnya Slaughter, DNP, to tell us all about a day in her life. Dr. Slaughter graduated in 2021 from USAHS’ Doctor of Nursing Practice program, the Nurse Executive role specialty.
Coming from a military family, she began working at a VA hospital in the Los Angeles area 30 years ago as a critical care RN. “Veterans deserve the best care,” she says. “My calling wasn’t to be in the military. This is my way of being able to serve the country.”
Over the years, she worked her way up, through positions such as informatics specialist, deputy nurse executive, and director of clinical staff development. She began Read more
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Enjoy beautiful beaches and a rich, Spanish-influenced history. The USAHS campus in St. Augustine overlooks the gorgeous northeast Florida coastline with nearby beaches likeSt. Augustine Beach and tranquil Crescent Beach and is located near downtown St. Augustine, the oldest European-founded city in the United States.Wander the cobblestone streets to take in the centuries-old architecture—on your way to the beach!
In the historic St. Augustine, Florida, colonial Spain is still alive in centuries-old architecture, cobblestone streets, and lamp-lit pubs. Take a tour, just eight minutes away from the university, of the Historic District’s many notable buildings including the mission-style cathedral, the Oldest House, and three military forts (Castillo de San Marcos, Fort Matanzas, and Fort Mose). Excellent museums like the Lightner Museum and Maritime Museum, as well as cultural festivals abound, as do boutiques, galleries, bistros, wineries, and cozy cafés.
Broaden your job opportunities.
USAHS has been known and respected in the community since 1997, and our graduates are working across a diversity of local healthcare organizations. Our undergraduate students benefit from access to an on-campus health science career services advisor, a current job board, two annual job fairs, a writing center, and complimentary counseling and tutoring services at our college in St Augustine, FL.
Connect with your surroundings.
At our university in St Augustine, FL, our degree programs are flexible—affording you the time to take a breath and explore the natural environment. Visit a protected wildlife sanctuary or the St. Augustine Alligator Farm, chill out on the beach in summer, take a fishing expedition, or play volleyball by the pier.
State-of-the-art on-campus resources
Centers for Innovative Clinical Practice
Students in our physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology programs practice using state-of-the-art technology in our Centers for Innovative Clinical Practice. Located on all USAHS campuses, our CICPs are immersive learning laboratories that mimic a variety of clinical spaces and home settings.
ADL Simulation Lab
Watch students in our occupational therapy programs use assistive devices tailored to each scenario as they work with mock patients on daily living skills, such as getting in and out of a bathtub and brushing their teeth.
Driving Simulator
Our driving simulators are built with actual car parts, including a six-speed transmission and a force-feedback steering wheel. Video monitors play simulations, so the user feels like they’re really driving. Our OT students use this tool to assess patients’ reaction speeds and visual perception, and to help patients build or rebuild their driving skills.
3D Printers
Our 3D printers enable you to design and build customized assistive technology for patients. Using technology and your own inspiration, you can create orthotics, prosthetics, and other devices that could make a patient’s sports life or daily life a little bit easier. You can even work with patients to create individualized devices.
BTE PrimusRS
This rehabilitation and exercise machine enables you to gather real-time, objective data on patient movement. Using functional attachments, the BTE measures different types of movement—such as opening a door, steering a car, and playing certain sports. It’s a powerful tool for gauging patient progress and assessing how well your interventions are working.
Double Robot
Double Robotics’ telepresence robot enables a remote healthcare provider to communicate with a patient through a movable robot with an iPad. You can practice remote consultations, such as moving the robot around a hospital bed and angling it to assess the patient’s wound. For the patient, the robot offers a closer analogue to a human presence than does a static screen.
Anatomage Table
These anatomy visualization tables display fully segmented 3D human anatomy via a fully interactive touchscreen experience. You can see realistic views inside the human body by selecting different planes and cross-sections. You can query structures, save the information inside a USB drive, and study the visualizations in more depth at home.
Become an occupational therapy practitioner and help people of all ages overcome physical and cognitive barriers and improve their quality of life. We offer the MOT program in two formats: Residential and Flex. Visit program page
If you want to earn the identical MOT degree but in a more flexible format, including on-campus lab classes held on scheduled weekends rather than weekdays, the Flex MOT is the path for you. Visit program page
Choose the OTD program if you want to prepare not only for clinical practice and fieldwork experience, but also for expanded roles in the profession. In the OTD's additional two trimesters beyond the MOT, you will gain research experience with a capstone project. Visit program page
The DPT is the entry-level degree in physical therapy. It prepares you for clinical practice with a wide range of patients and in varied settings. It also prepares you for advanced roles in research and practice leadership. Visit program page
Created for working students, the Flex DPT path offers the identical curriculum and degree as the DPT with a more flexible schedule: students meet on campus for lab classes on weekends rather than weekdays. Visit program page
USAHS St. Augustine is located right off of University Blvd just south of historic downtown St. Augustine.
Our St. Augustine Campus Address:
1 University Blvd
St. Augustine, FL 32086
Our hours are: 8AM – 8PM Monday – Friday
Our contact phone number is: (800)-241-1027
Parking: Students are not permitted to park in the north, west, and south patient/ visitor/ staff/ faculty parking lots from 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Students that park in these lots will be issued a parking citation of $25.00. After 5:00 p.m. students can park in the west and south visitor/ staff/ faculty parking lots. Students can park in front of the main entrance for up to 15 minutes to deliver items to faculty/staff or pick up items.