CURRICULUM VITAE

DAVID L. SMITH, DNP, RN, FNP-C

EDUCATION

Institution

Location

Degree

Year(s)

Field of Study

Loyola University New Orleans

New Orleans, LA

Doctorate of Nursing Practice

2016

Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner

Western Governors University

Austin, TX

Master of Science Nursing Education

2012

Nursing Education

Western Governors University

Salt Lake City, Utah

Bachelor of Science Nursing

2010

Nursing

Mountain State University

Beckley, West Virginia

Bachelor of Science Independent Studies Natural Sciences

2007

Science

Panola College

Carthage, Texas

Associate Degree Nursing

2007

Nursing

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

2017-present Grand Canyon University

Adjunct faculty

Teach online courses within the MSN program. These classes primarily focus on research, research design, literature review, and mentorship during capstone. Duties include posting multiple times a week within discussion forums, answering student inquires quickly, and grading papers with meaningful feedback. Course evaluations are performed following the completion of each class and feedback is applied to enhance the student experience and knowledge retention.

2020-present Hope Community Medicine Nurse Practitioner

Federally Qualified Health Center

As a nurse practitioner, I see people across the life span. This position requires diagnosing and treatment of a variety of illnesses and disease processes. While fulfilling this process evidenced based practice is brought to bear to ensure patients are receiving the most up to date and effective treatments. Advance concepts, advanced pharmacology, and advance pathophysiology are used on a daily basis. Visits are face to face and through the use of telemedicine technology.

2019-2020 Texas Quick Care Nurse Practitioner

Left due to reduction in hours which resulted from Covid pandemic and I realized I preferred the family care environment more than urgent care.

2016-2019 Nacogdoches Health Partners

Nurse Practitioner

Left position due to wanting more experience is urgent care environment. As a nurse practitioner, I see people across the life span. This position requires diagnosing and treatment of a variety of illnesses and disease processes. While fulfilling this process evidenced based practice is brought to bear to ensure patients are receiving the most up to date and effective treatments. Advance concepts, advanced pharmacology, and advance pathophysiology are used on a daily basis. Visits are face to face and through the use of telemedicine technology.

2012-2016 Full time Stephen F. Austin State University, Richard and Lucille DeWitt School of

2016-2017 Adjunct Nursing, Nacogdoches, Texas

Faculty / Simulation Lab Coordinator/Assistant Professor

Courses taught include NUR 306, Basic Care of the Adult Client, which focused on fundamental skill acquisition and practice. Students were supervised in a hospital setting for clinical. NUR 305, Introduction to Nursing, focused on nursing history, theory, communication, documentation, legal and ethical, lab value interpretation, and a cultural research project with development of patient education material. NUR 340, Communication is a class that focuses on how healthcare professionals communicate with each other, patients, and the organizations they work with. NUR 350, Nursing History is a course that explores how nursing developed into the profession it is today.

Duties also include management of a state of the art simulation lab including scheduling of multiple courses, development of simulations, participating in the supervision of various simulations, budget development, and inventory oversight. Co-work with one assistant whose duties are supervised and appraised. Increased simulation lab with the development of new simulations, including interdisciplinary collaboration with several departments within the university. Serve on simulation committee, recruitment committee, and hiring committee,

2007-2012 Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital, Nacogdoches, Texas

Registered Nurse- Staff

Three years on medical-surgical floor. Cross trained in stepdown ICU, chemotherapy administration, recovery room, cardiac rehab, and cardiac cath lab. Two years as the infection control nurse and the employee health nurse. Developed monitoring protocols for various hospital acquired infections and created multiple Excel documents to aid in tracking including the automatic generation of reports and charts. Educated staff in various ways, including staff meetings, about hospital acquired infections, hand washing, and pressure ulcers. Tracked and reported to NHSN various quality improvement mandates. Worked as House Supervisor, as needed.

LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION

Credentialing Agency Initial Confirmation Renewal Period Area

Texas Board of Nursing 2007 2019 RN Compact

BLS Instructor 2011 2019 Healthcare Provider

Texas Board of Nursing 2016 2019 Advance Practice Nurse- Family Nurse Practitioner

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

2014 Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Omicron Eta Chapter

2014 American Association of Nurse Practitioners

2016 National Kidney Foundation

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

2016 Utilizing Learning Styles for Individualized Education to Primary Child Caregivers

A capstone project presented at Loyola University New Orleans as part of requirements to complete the Doctorate of Nursing Practice Degree. The project focused on giving education to parents of children with upper respiratory illness symptoms based on their learning preferences determined by the VARK.

2016 Utilizing Learning Styles for Individualized Education to Primary Child Caregivers

Presented at Stephen F. Austin State University for the faculty of the nursing program within the faculty development series.

2015 If You Don’t Ask, They Won’t Tell.

Presented at AANP National Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

A poster presentation detailing the statistics of provider conversations regarding complimentary medications with strategies on how to address this issue.

GRANTS

2015 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Grant used to fund virtual simulations for two pediatric courses.

Status: Funded.

2015 Erickson Nursing Foundation

Grant used to fund the purchase of mannequin arms to simulate IV starts. Status: Funded.

2016 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Grant is to fund simulations for mental health courses and to establish a training program for faculty on how to perform simulations.

Status: Not Funded

2016 East Texas Community Foundation

Grant is to fund the purchase of equipment to aid in the training of assessment techniques.

Status: Funded

UNIVERSITY SERVICE (SON, CoSM, University)

SON Simulation Committee

SON Recruitment Committee

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