Jennifer Birlson, MSN, RN

Assistant Professor of Practice (Instructional)
Biography

Jennifer Birlson has been a registered nurse since 2005. She has been progressive cardiac nurse for eight years working on a telemetry step-down unit and spent two years as a Bariatric program clinical coordinator creating a new surgical weight reduction program. She also worked for six years on UIHC’s Surgery Specialty Unit serving trauma, vascular, transplant, digestive disease, and bariatric patients.

Research areas
  • Medical/surgical nursing
  • Clinical nurse education
  • Bariatric surgery
  • New Nurse Onboarding/precepting
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Education
Masters of Science in Nursing Western Governors University
Bachelors of Science in Nursing Western Governors University
Bachelors of Science in Education-Western Illinois University