Areas of clinical expertise
Geriatric Nurse Practitioner, Fundamentals, Adult Health, Health Assessment
Assistant Professor
I began my nursing career in a post-BSN nurse intern program at the Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro, NC. Since that time, I have enjoyed numerous nursing positions as varied as a staff nurse in a delivery suite in Auckland, New Zealand to the interim chief nursing officer in a union owned hospital in Philadelphia, PA. I love nursing and teaching and thus, enjoy my position in the School of Nursing at NC A&T.
BSN: School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1980
MBA: The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1992
MSN: School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 1993
PhD: School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 1994
After completing a nurse intern program in maternal-child health, I worked in labor and delivery as a staff and primary nurse. I later moved into administrative positions in women’s health and Pediatrics. Recognizing the need for additional education to support a career in nursing administration, I returned to school and began part-time employment as a health care consultant. After graduate school, I held a full-time health care consulting position prior to pursuing a career in academia. As an assistant professor, I teach leadership and management courses as well as ones in my clinical area of expertise, maternal child health.
Fields, B. (2004). Should school-based services be routinely available to teen mothers? [Second Opinion column] MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, 29 (1), 11.
Sullivan, E., Fields, B., Kelley, J. & Whelan, E. (1993). Nursing centers: The new arena for advanced nursing practice. In D.O. McGivern & M.D. Mezey (Eds.), Nurses, Nurse Practitioners. New York: Springer.
Fields, B. (1993). Development of a costing methodology for nursing services in the acute care setting. Unpublished manuscript.
Fields, B. (1980). The impaired nurse: An annotated bibliography. Chapel Hill, NC: Health Sciences Consortium.
Dissertation
Fields, B. (1994). The effect of nursing case management on length of stay and resource consumption. (Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania) Ann Arbor, MI: U.M.I. 9427536.
Florence S. Downs, PhD, RN, Chair.
Candidacy Exam
Fields, B. (1993). Productivity: A concept synthesis (unpublished, University of Pennsylvania).
Cynthia Scalzi, PhD, RN, Chair.
PRESENTATIONS:
Fields, B. (June 2002). Leadership forum: Building skills from real world experience. Wake Area Health Education Center, Raleigh, NC.
Fields, B. (June 2002). Leadership forum: Building skills from real world experience. Coastal Area Health Education Center, Wilmington, NC.
Fields, B. (June 2002). Leadership challenges: At the top, in the middle and all around. North Carolina Organization of Nurse Leaders, Greenville, NC.
Fields, B. (November, 2001) Issues in nursing leadership. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Invited panelist)
