Angie Mehringer is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Louisville. She is also a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator, a Registered Lactation Consultant, and a Faith Community Nurse, and currently serves on the Graduate Education for Advanced Public Health Nursing task force. Angie completed her undergraduate degree at Indiana University and her Master’s degree in Nursing Education at the University of Southern Indiana. She joined ACHNE in 2019 when she presented an abstract for the 2020 AI. Her first on-the-ground AI was this past June in San Diego, and she left feeling refreshed and energized. She loved the passion for community/public health nursing that she heard all around her at the AI.
Angie is currently a DNP student at Northern Kentucky University, and her scholarship interests are vulnerable populations, adverse childhood experiences(ACEs), and simulation with students. Her DNP project examines coping and resilience in young adult refugees, who may be in high school, college, or working. She uses a graphic novel and reading circle approach as part of this project and also uses this approach when teaching global health.
In addition to her scholarship, Angie enjoys teaching, especially using innovative teaching strategies. She is passionate about ACEs and feels it is essential that students learn this material so they can better serve people in the hospital and in the community. Along with a colleague she secured a grant from the Society of Pediatric Nurses to provide workshops on ACEs and Trauma Informed Care for undergraduate nursing students. In the future, she would like to research if this education affects the level of burnout in nurses. She is also working on a study with a colleague about simulation-to-clinical hour ratios.
Angie would like ACHNE members to know the importance of mentorship. She has been mentored, both professionally and personally, and currently serves as a mentor in a youth program with a resettlement agency. Mentors are encouragers and collaborators on projects and scholarship.