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Associate Professor of Nursing Practice Amy Wells Putnam DNP, RN, CNE

Amy Putnam

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor of Nursing Practice Amy Wells Putnam DNP, RN, CNE

College of Health and Human Sciences

School of Nursing

Contact Information

Email: awputnam@wcu.edu
Office: Biltmore Park Office  Health and Human Sciences Building
Pronouns: She, her

Biography

I have been a nurse for twenty-three years, and completed my Master of Science degree with a concentration in nursing education in August, 2007. I completed by DNP in educational leadership in June, 2018. I have worked in intensive care, telemetry step-down, and medical-surgical nursing areas in acute care. Currently, I work prn in the PACU at a local community hospital. I taught in the Associate Degree nursing program at Haywood Community College part-time for two years in the clinical setting and full-time for four years in the didactic, lab, and clinical settings. I have completed my tenth full-time year as an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Western Carolina University. Currently, I teach in the graduate school in the nurse educator and nurse leader programs. I have taught in the traditional BSN program as well as some classes in the ABSN program, RIBN program, and RN-BSN program. I served as the Traditional Program Director for the Undergraduate Program in the School of Nursing in Cullowhee, NC for five years. I serve of school, college, and university committees. During my time in education, I have taught in the didactic (face-face, online, and hybrid), clinical, and simulation settings.

Education

  • DNP, American Sentinel University
  • MS, Western Carolina University
  • BSN, Western Carolina University

Teaching Interests

Conceptual teaching and learning; Medical-Surgical Nursing; NCLEX test taking; Critical Care Nursing, teaching and learning,

Research Interests

Conceptual teaching and learning; stress and nursing students; alternate clinical models and impact on critical thinking; Alternate clinical models,

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