After serving as Director, School of Nursing from November 2017 until December 2019, Dr. Stansifer has returned to the Family Nurse Practitione (FNP) program full-time. She has served as the FNP Program Director since 2015. Dr. Stansifer has over 20 years of experience as family nurse practitioner in Rural Health, Cardiology, Neurology, Telemedicine, Acute Care, Long Term Acute Care, Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing Facilities.
Dr. Stansifer is also a peer site reviewer for Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN).
Prior to joining The University of Tulsa, Dr. Stansifer practiced at Hillcrest Medical Center with the hospitalist group and continues to maintain a clinical faculty practice at Jack C. Montgomery VA and Veterans Evaluation Services.

Improving care access for under served populations in Oklahoma.

Family Nurse Practitioner curriculum and clinical practice with an emphasis on under served populations.

• Diagnosis and Management I: Introduction To Diagnostic Reasoning
• Project Completion
• DNP Project Proposal
• FNP Competency Lab
• FNP Practice Summation
• Population Focus Family NP II: Pediatrics
• Advanced Pharmacology
• APRN Practicum II
• Biostatistics
• DNP Project Design
• Advanced Assessment
• Healthcare Informatics
• Foundations for Practice

• ANA
• AONP
• Sigma Theta Tau
• American Nurses Association
• Oklahoma Nurse Practitioner Association
• Sigma Theta Tau Iota Mu Chapter

• Chapman Professorship
• Higdon Award