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
BSN, University of South Alabama
MSN/FNP, University of Mobile
DNP, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Research Interests
Malignant Hypertension
Chronic Kidney Disease
Community Health Disparities
Psychiatric Mental Health
Areas of Expertise
Adult and Geriatric HealthPharmacologyAdvanced Practice NursingLeadership in NursingChronic Disease and Medication ManagementEvidence-Based Practice in NursingPrimary Care of the FamilyHealth Assessment
Dr. Cecelia Hammond has many years of experience as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) and has been an American Nurses Credentialing Center certified FNP since 2008. Her FNP background includes working several years in a community clinic caring for patients across the lifespan. She has been in a faculty role for the past 14 years teaching within nursing undergraduate and family nurse practitioner graduate programs.
With a distinguished and sustained record of online teaching, scholarship and service, Dr. Hammond has developed nursing curricula and taught online advanced nursing courses for many years. She has a passion for teaching graduate nursing courses and especially enjoys teaching the core primary care FNP courses and nursing theory, health assessment and pharmacology.
Dr. Hammond obtained her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in 2010. Her content areas of expertise are adult and geriatric health, pharmacology, advanced practice nursing, leadership, chronic disease and medication management, evidence-based practice and primary care. Dr. Hammond joined the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences as a contributing faculty member in January 2020 and became a core faculty member in May 2021.
