Our Faculty and Staff

Kim White, Ph.D., M.S.N., P.H.C.N.S.-B.C., R.N.

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Title:

Associate Professor – Nursing

Department:

Undergraduate Programs

College/Division:

Ron and Kathy Assaf College of Nursing

Campus:

Fort Myers

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Barry University 2005
Masters of Science in Nursing (M.S.N.), Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 1999
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.), University of Illinois-Springfield 1991

Dr. White teaches population health, ethics, leadership, professionalism, health care trends, and nursing preceptorship in the BSN degree program.

Dr. White is a Public/Community Health Clinical Nurse Specialist. She has had experience in geriatrics, rehabilitation, neurosurgery, emergency department, management (as a manager, DON, VP of Patient Care Services, and Director), disability case management, school nurse, primary care, and public health. Practice with populations and in primary care nurse-managed clinic is her special interest.

Her research interests include childhood lead poisoning risk reduction and community-based approaches to chronic diseases. An additional focus of her research has been interprofessional approaches to primary care.