DNPmollyB: About Me and My Mission

Hi! I'm so happy to meet you and thrilled that you have found my blog. I love nursing. I love teaching. I love patient care. The real purpose of my company is just to have a consolidated way to share my experience, my projects, and my services. Also, to be totally honest, I needed a case study on how to start a consulting company for my DNP students this fall. I'm setting the example by "doing".

I want to help make others successful by paying it forward. I graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with my associate's degree in 1998, just two years after high school. Honestly, I didn't really even know if I liked nursing. My paramedic dad and my mom (who went back to school toting 3 young kiddos along the way) just told me that nursing was a good idea. "Okay, sure" I thought - and I had heard nurses made a lot of money. No one really mentioned how hard they had to work for that money.

But, I did stick with it. I got through it. How? I met some amazing people along every step of my nursing journey. It just continues to get better. I finished my BSN (2001 EKU), my MSN (2005 University of Kentucky), and my DNP (2016 Rutgers).

Some of My Besties

I have had multiple RN roles, but really would call myself a "primary care" nurse practitioner. That has been my role for the last 15 years of my clinical career. I am also a nurse educator. I started simply at first, taking clinical groups for local community colleges. Then that brought invites to do guest lectures. Good student reviews of those lectures landed me as a NP adjunct faculty, which then lead to a full invitation to join academia. Best decision ever! The challenge is that you have to keep practicing if you want to really be an effective nursing instructor. How else can you really call yourself a practice expert?

Getting the DNP created opportunities for me. I can confidently say, that now I am an expert problem solver. In fact, that is my genius. According to Grace Lever of The Doer's Way, your genius is the thing you are really, really good at. I am good at seeing gaps, identifying problems, and then creating solutions. I like the challenge of new projects - I always have. But, the DNP degree help me put words to the work and frame the context of solving problems.

I am willing to share what I know and what I have learned. Others have made the same investment in me. This business creates a platform to reach out in new ways beyond my academic classroom and beyond my exam room. My goal is to help patients, students, and organizations find solutions to their problems by providing services as a nurse practitioner, nurse educator, and nurse consultant.

I'm looking forward to sharing with you! Here are some of my current projects:

• The DNP Project Workbook: A Step By Step Process for Success

• The DNP Project Podcast

Molly

dnpmollyb@gmail.com