Overview
Education
- DNP, Advanced Practice Nursing, University of Texas Medical Branch
- MSN, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, University of Texas Medical Branch
- BSN, University of Texas Medical Branch
- ADN, Registered Nurse, Galveston College
Areas of Research, Teaching, And Clinical Expertise and Scholarship
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Heart Transplantation
- Hospital Medicine
Teaching
- September 2005 - October 2006 University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, Acute Care NP Program
- Fall 2017 - ACNP Program
Clinical Expertise
- Management of the Heart Failure patient in the inpatient and outpatient settings
- Home inotropic therapy for selected patients with severe systolic heart failure
Memberships
- Galveston Coalition of Advanced Practice Nurses
- American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN)
Publications
- Aoughsten, J., Johnson, S., Kuruvilla, M. & Bionat, S. (2015). The effect of the affordable care act on medicare: Opportunities for advanced practice nursing. Nurse Leader, 13(3), 49-53.
- Khalife, W., Nalabothu, P., Vivo, R., Garikipti, S., Johnson, S., Kislingbury, K. (2013). Higher Donor Body Mass Index Is Associated with Higher Risk of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, (32(4)). DOI: 10.1016/jhealun.2013.01.528
