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Christina Leonard

Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing
School of Nursing
Duke School of Nursing, Room 4229, Ipe Bldg, Durham, NC 27710
Duke School of Nursing, P.O. Box 3322, Room 4229 Ipe, Durham, NC 27710

Overview


Christina Leonard, APRN, DNP, FNP-C, CNL is a family nurse practitioner and assistant professor who teaches in the Accelerated Bachelors in Nursing (ABSN) program at Duke school of Nursing. She received her BA in English and Psychology and then returned as an ABSN student to attain a bachelor’s degree in Nursing from George Mason University. She later received her MSN in Nursing Education from George Mason University. Christina’s passion for providing direct patient care led her to return for her Post-Master’s Family Nurse Practitioner certificate in 2012 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She later became certified as Clinical Nurse Leader. She completed her DNP at East Carolina University in 2018.  Throughout her career, Christina has worked on several initiatives to advance interprofessional collaboration and learning. Christina has practiced since 2012 as a Nurse Practitioner in inpatient cardiology at Wake Med Health and Hospitals.  Her teaching and research interests include cardiology, adult health, innovations in education, and expanding IPE opportunities.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing · 2025 - Present School of Nursing

Recent Publications


Bringing the R Back to SBAR: A Focused Heart Failure SBAR Tool

Journal Article Home Health Care Management & Practice · August 2019 This article describes a quality improvement (QI) project implemented in a home health setting among a population of patients with heart failure (HF). It was discovered there was a lack of nurse-led recommendations and ineffective use of the situa ... Full text Cite

Hotspotting

Journal Article Nurse Educator · September 2018 The purpose of this article is to describe a service learning opportunity where interprofessional teams of students worked together to address patients’ social determinants of health through home visits. This article describes this process, known a ... Full text Cite

The Impact of Caring: Teaching Students Empathy through the Patient Voice

Journal Article Creative Nursing · February 2018 The purpose of this educational brief is to describe an innovative learning experience focused on teaching students empathy for chronic illness, using patient voices. Panel members of individuals who had experienced acute and chronic illness from ... Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


East Carolina University · 2018 D.N.P.
George Mason University · 2006 M.S.N.