SCHOLAR DIRECTORY

Tamara Tasseff is a full-time PhD student at Idaho State University, School of Nursing. She holds an M.A. in Organizational Learning and has served in various leadership and consultant roles. As a natural systems thinker and life-long learner, Tamara has worked to apply lessons learned from other industries directly to quality improvement, new program development, and healthcare transformation. Tamara is a 2015-2016 GATE Scholar and is a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society. Her research interests include rural veterans and concurrent palliative care. Tamara has been associated with the military and veterans in various capacities for thirty years. She and her husband, a retired U.S. Navy veteran, reside in rural, western South Dakota.

Dr. Kimberly Taylor is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. She recently completed 27 years of active duty Navy Nursing service. Her educational background includes:

Doctor of Nursing Practice, University of South Carolina – 2017
Master of Science in Nursing, East Carolina University – 2008
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Medical University of South Carolina – 1994
Associate of Science, Trident Technical College – 1992

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of South Carolina, Dr. Taylor taught at Texas A&M University and within the Department of Defense. Her teaching experience is primarily focused in Executive Leadership, Nursing Practice Theories, Health Policy, and Healthcare & Team Systems. Dr. Taylor’s research interests center on Patient Provider Communication, Patient Experience, Patient Safety, Strategic Communication, Professional Practice Models
and Emotional Intelligence. She is involved with the American Nurses Association, South Carolina Nurses Association, Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society, Golden Key International Honor Society, American Red Cross, and the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Dr. Taylor’s professional practice experience spans 25 years within the United States and abroad to include:

Executive Leadership as Chief Operating Officer, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Nursing Officer
Public Relations Director
Strategic Communication Director
Quality and Process Improvement Manager
Lean Six Sigma Project Manager
Perioperative within Pre-operative, Intraoperative, and Postoperative Care Delivery
Patient Safety Officer
Infection Control Program Director
Patient Experience Director
Internal Medicine Nurse Manager
Medical Surgical Nurse Manager
Ambulatory Care Nurse Manager
United States Navy Nurse Corps Officer

Publication

Taylor, K. A., McQuilkin, D., & Hughes, R. G. (2019). Medical scribe impact on patient and provider experience. Military Medicine, 184(9), 388-393. doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usz030

I was inspired to do the opposite of what I saw my biological family and peers do growing up as a Foster Youth. I was emancipated from the State at 17 and decided I needed to become a Nurse. I started remedial classes at City College of San Francisco and was eventually accepted into their ADN. I applied to San Francisco State while I was finishing up my final year and worked in a non-profit for Foster Youth throughout both degrees. I have an affinity for Public Health and this made it easy to gain my first Nursing job in a homeless shelter respite program. Currently I am working part-time in as a PHN with CVHcare. I enjoy being directly related to my community and when I obtain the FNP/DNP I will continue to work with my community and advocate for those in high risk populations.

Inducted into Sigma Theta Tau and Beta Beta Beta (2000) as I graduated (top 5%) of my BSN program. I specialized as a psychiatric nurse in 2002, was head nurse of MAMC inpatient psychiatric unit 2004-2006. My behavioral restraint reduction project won a MAMC clinical investigations research day award, was presented in AMSUS poster session, and selected as Karen Reeder award runner up. I became a PMHNP in 2008, worked with a high risk trainee population through 2009, and precepted BAMC, FNP resident, psychiatric rotations. I then directed a combat stress control team, in Mosul Iraq in 2010. Next, I was appointed as the first ARNP Attending at MAMC, and precepted GME rotations. In 2011, I designed and directed a hospital-wide behavioral health triage program, and was recognized as MAMC Nurse Practitioner of the Year. I retired in 2012. That year, I returned as a GS-14 civilian nursing supervisor to stand up/direct a behavioral health clinic and pilot a telemental health initiative. In 2013, I also began a solo, private psychiatric-mental health practice (continued to date). In 2015, I was accepted into the UW nursing Ph.D. program. I graduated the UW DNP program (3.94 GPA) in 2016, and coauthored an abstract accepted for an MHSRS oral presentation and an AMSUS poster session. This summer I have guest lectured BSN nursing students about nursing professionalization, and served on the UW Suicide Prevention Training Curriculum Committee. Also, in 2016, the Journal of Clinical Nursing accepted my letter to the editor (JOCN13404).

CPT Christina Terehoff entered the Army as a Nurse Corps Officer and received her U.S. Army commission through ROTC at George Mason University Her first duty assignment was at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, where she completed the Brigadier General Ana Mae Hayes Clinical Nurse Transition Program (CNTP) and served as a Clinical Staff nurse on 10CD, the largest inpatient ward outside of the United States. She was responsible for providing nursing care to wounded U.S. soldiers and NATO forces serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. Upon transfer to Fort Bragg, NC, she served in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) as a PACU clinical nurse and Charge Nurse at Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg. CPT Terehoff is a Distinguished Military Graduate from George Mason University where she also earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing. She is currently working on her Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in order to become both a Family Nurse Practitioner and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. Her DNP project focuses on education to increase Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination as an anti-cancer vaccine through a multimodal approach which includes social media. Her passion is caring for veterans and their families and she looks forward to a lifelong commitment of service to our military community, our foreign allies, and those in need as an Army Family Nurse Practitioner.