Heidi Keeler, PhD, MSN/MBA, RN
Director, Continuing InterProfessional Development and Innovation
Associate Professor, UNMC College of Nursing
Assistant Vice Chancellor, UNMC Office of Community Engagement
Heidi Keeler, PhD, received her baccalaureate degree in nursing from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, and her doctoral degree in nursing from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Keeler’s clinical experiences include adult medical surgical nursing, in acute, primary care, and long term care settings, and community population health nursing.
Dr. Keeler’s areas of clinical research interest revolve around improving overall educational systems and platforms, concentrating on how IT systems can improve educational experience, outcomes evaluation collection and analysis, and improve overall program efficiencies. Dr. Keeler envisions clinical translational research and dissemination and implementation research as essential to maintaining competencies and sustainability of the future healthcare workforce, and aims to examine new ways to effectively improve clinical performance through innovative knowledge and skills acquisition modalities.
- 1998, BSN, Amherst
- 2010, PhD, UNMC
- 2022, MSN/MBA, Liberty University
- Workforce Readiness, Development, and Innovation.
- Health promotion, prevention and advocacy.
- Use of technology for both educational and practice change.
- September 2022-September 2026 Title: An Innovative States-wide Nursing Workforce Clinical Preceptor Academy, Award Amount: $3,995,519, Role: Keeler, H (P.D.)
- Khazanchi, R., Keeler, H., Marcelin, J. R. (2021). Out of the Ivory Tower: Successes From a Community-Engaged Structural Competency Curriculum, Academic Medicine: 96(4). 482 doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003927
- King, K.M., Tchouankam, T., Keeler, H., Minter, C., Love, K., Cai, G., Estabrooks, P.A.. (2020). Conceptualization and utilization of community engagement approaches in translational research: a scoping review. Journal of Translational Research. https://doi.org/10.15761/JTS.1000418
- Keeler, H., Baier, R., Kosar, C., Culross, B., Cramer, M.E. (2019). Examining the impact of board-certified registered nurses in skilled nursing facilities using national and state quality and clinical indicators. Journal of Gerontological Nursing. 45(11), 39-45. https://doi.org/10.3928/00989134-20191011-06
- Cramer, M.E., Wulf, K., Wendl, M., Keeler, H. (2019). Are advanced providers prepared to care for the agricultural population? The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 15(2), e41–e44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nurpra.2018.09.018
- Community Collaborations Committee.
- Rural Health 2030 Task Force.
- Educational Development Institute (EDI) Committee.
- UNMC Wellbeing Coordinating Council