Nurse Practitioner's Research Focuses on Transitions
Audrey Weymiller
Audrey Weymiller is in her first year as an associate professor in the Eleanor Mann School of Nursing at the University of Arkansas. Her research focuses on transitions, and she is currently working as a co-investigator with an interprofessional student transitional care team.
Undergraduate nursing, social work and exercise science students visit patients with either congestive heart failure or chronic obstructive heart disease in their homes after they have been discharged from Washington Regional Medical Center. The primary aim is to study the effect of the student transitional care team intervention on the patient's knowledge, self-care, quality of life and health system utilization.
In addition to transitional care research, Weymiller is partially funded through a Health Resources and Services Administration education grant. Weymiller said that the HRSA grant is used to recruit, retain and improve the competencies of preceptors for nurse practitioner students.
Weymiller was a visiting professor at the university last November before taking a permanent position this fall. She received a bachelor's of science and nursing degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She earned a Master of Nursing from the University of Washington and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota.
Weymiller is certified by the American Nurses Credential Center as a Family Nurse Practitioner. She is also currently certified by the National Board for Certification of Hospice and Palliative Nurses as an Advanced Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse.
She was awarded the King Hussein Scholarship in Nursing Research from the Mayo Clinic Department of Nursing in Rochester, Minnesota, in 2007. She was also a Hartford Geriatric Nursing Education Scholar while at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing.
"I am thrilled to be at the University of Arkansas and look forward to a challenging and rewarding career here," Weymiller said.
Contacts
Andrew Viguet, communications intern
College of Education and Health Professions
479-575-3138,
adv001@uark.edu
Heidi Wells, director of communications
College of Education and Health Professions
479-575-3138,
heidisw@uark.edu
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