Katrina Smith is a dedicated, compassionate health care provider with a love for teaching and mentorship. Her clinical background includes registered nursing experience in critical care, medical-surgical and observation units as well as abdominal transplant, outpatient trauma, and hepatology as a nurse practitioner. In 2021, she began her teaching career at North Carolina Central University as a clinical instructor in the traditional BSN program.
Katrina Smith
AGACNP-BC, MSN, MHA, CCRN
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Nursing
College of Health and Sciences
Areas of Specialty
Smith’s clinical interests include veteran health care, non-opiate pain management, healing through gratitude and mindfulness, liver/kidney transplant, and hepatology.
Guiding the Next Generation of Nurses
Smith’s teaching style is to motivate and invoke deeper thought through compassion, empathy, and critical thinking.
Courses
NURS 4520 – Introduction to Professional Nursing for RNs
Professional Achievements
- Health Resources and Services Administration Nursing Corps Scholarship Recipient (2012)
- Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN)
- Board Certified Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP-BC)
- Sigma Theta Tau