Christina Hernandez

• PhD, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• MSN, University of Illinois
• BSN, Millikin University

• 2014 - Present: Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of the Incarnate Word 
• 2012 - 2014: Assistant Professor of Nursing, Clemson University 
• 2004 - 2008: Visiting Nursing Instructor, University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana 

Undergraduate

• Community Health Nursing
  
• Fundamentals of Nursing
• Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
• Mental Health Nursing
• Research in Nursing

Graduate - Doctor of Nursing Practice

• Evidence Based Methods and Practice I
• Health Policy for Advanced Practice Nurses
• Introduction to Epidemiology and Vulnerable Populations for Advanced Practice Nurses
• Nursing Theory for Advanced Practice
• Scientific Underpinnings of Practice

• Health disparities
• Health literacy
• Mexican immigrant women’s health

• American Nurses Association
• Association of Community Health Nurse Educators
• National Association of Hispanic Nurses
• Texas Nurses Association

• Scholars: The Nursing Capstone Project
• University of the Incarnate Word Faculty Endowment Award of $850

Publications

• Dols, J. D., Hernández, C., and Miles, H. (2016). The DNP project: Quandaries for nursing scholars.Nursing Outlook. Advance online Publication. 1-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2016.07.009.
• Ivanov, L. L., Wallace, D., Hernández, C., and Hyde, Y. (2015). Diabetes risks and health literacy in Southern African Americans and Latino women. Journal of Community Health Nursing, 32, 12-23. doi:10.1080/07370016.2015.991664.
• Hernández C. M. and Wallace, D. C. (2014). A profile of Mexican-born women who adhere to national cervical cancer screening recommendations. Journal of Community Health Nursing 31, 157-166. doi:10.1080/07370016.2014.926678.
• Hernández, C. M. (2011). HIV/AIDS in childbearing Hispanic/Latinas: An emerging crisis. The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, 36, 354-358. doi: 10.1097/NMC.0b013e31822d67aa.