Information to Informatics: Sherri Evershed

Information to Informatics: Sherri Evershed


Module I

Hello. My name is Sherri Evershed. I am married with two college age children and have a wonderful Golden Retriever.

I have been teaching nursing for a cumulative six years at Westminster College and now the University of Utah. I am a clinical instructor for Community Nursing in the Fall and Spring and I am the Lead Instructor for Community and Family Focused Care in the RN-BSN program in the summer. I love teaching college students and thoroughly enjoy the clinical setting.

I have a commitment and passion for education, as a teacher and a student. Prior to my bachelor’s degree in Nursing and master’s degree is in Public Health, I received a bachelor’s degree in Community Health Education.

I have been fortunate to have a very rich and diverse career as a nurse. Looking back on my career, it is clear to me that regardless of my position I always found myself gravitating toward the educational and preventive health aspect of the job. I was instrumental in, or involved with the development of various education programs for pediatric oncology, pediatric LifeFlight, Utah Telehealth program, infection control, and my graduate thesis study on Hep. B for Centers for Disease Control in American Samoa. I was a volunteer, for one school year, as the Vice President for Health and Safety at Rosslyn Heights Elementary School. In that position I was instrumental in developing a program that was successful in increasing the percentage of children that wore seat belts and bicycle helmets.

At this point in my academic teaching career I would like to expand my horizons in teaching. My goals are to be eligible to teach on a wider variety of subjects, to teach in broader educational settings, and to teach at the graduate level in nursing education and community health nursing. I have chosen to pursue a DNP with an emphasis on public health to facilitate the achievement of my personal goals.