Amy McCarron, Nursing
Amy McCarron, Nursing
Lecturer
Expertise
Family preventative care and health promotion, management of chronic disease
Research Interest
Chronic illness and social, financial, psychological as well as physical effects; Role of DNPEducational Background
BA Economics, UMASS Amherst, 1990
AS Nursing (RN) NSCC, 1994
BS UMass Lowell Nursing, 2003
MS Nursing (FNP) UMass Lowell, 2005
DNP, Simmons College, 2011
Biosketch
I have been an RN since 1994 and was previously employed at a community hospital on a medical-surgical floor at first and then the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit for 9 years. I graduated with my MS in 2005 and was board certified as a Family nurse practitioner. I practiced for 7 years in a rheumatology and internal medicine practice and continue to practice at this location on a part-time basis. After receiving my DNP in May 2011, I became adjunct faculty at UMass Lowell and have joined the nursing faculty full time as of January 2012.