Cecelia Hammond – Nursing Faculty Profile, University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
Cecelia Hammond, Nursing Faculty at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS), traces her path into nursing back to caring for her grandmother as a young adult, an experience that ultimately led her to become a family nurse practitioner, drawn to more hands-on, detailed primary care for patients.
She values watching students grow from learners into confident, knowledgeable nurse practitioners, and prioritizes one-on-one mentorship that gives each student personalized guidance and leadership along the way. Hammond notes that the relationships she builds with students through regular emails, texts, and check-ins throughout the semester come full circle during the program’s in-person intensives, where students and faculty finally connect face-to-face.
She sees USAHS’s student-focused approach as what sets the program apart, recognizing that many students are working nurses balancing careers and families and need hands-on faculty support that meets them where they are.
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Cecelia Hammond – Nursing Faculty Profile, University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
[00:00:00] Cecilia Hammond (Nursing Faculty): As a young adult, I helped care for my grandmother when she was sick and she was ill. I helped care for her, and that helped me to focus on nursing and to want to do nursing as an adult. And once I became a nurse, I wanted to further my career as a family nurse practitioner, so I went back to school to become a nurse practitioner, to do more hands-on and detailed care specific care for our patients, and primary care for patients. [00:00:30] Cecilia Hammond (Nursing Faculty): I like how the students evolve from learners to experienced students with the knowledge to become a nurse practitioner. I like being one-on-one with the students, giving them that personal leadership, giving them that personal educational tools that they need to succeed. And I like the personal relationship that we form with students. [00:00:55] Cecilia Hammond (Nursing Faculty): When we come to the intensive, we look forward to seeing each other because we have a special relationship from getting to know each other from emails or text or just working with one another during the semester. It’s great to really see each other at the intensive and see each other face-to-face and work together hands-on. [00:01:14] Cecilia Hammond (Nursing Faculty): I think what sets USA apart is because we are student-oriented. We are student-focused. We understand that our students are busy everyday workers, busy nurses who have careers and have families, and they need hands-on teachers who can help them along the way.
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