Amanda Shirley, FNP-C
Amanda Shirley has been in nursing for almost 12 years. She received her Associates Degree in Nursing in 2010 from Durham Technical Community College in Durham, North Carolina. She worked as a registered nurse on an infectious disease and pulmonary medicine unit for several years, where she served as a representative on the House-wide shared governance Quality Council, and the Clinical Documentation and Implementation Committee, which peaked her interest in informatics. When her organization adopted a new medical record system, she was offered a position on the Implementation team as an instructional designer, creating educational materials and training classes for multiple departments. While working in the IT Department, she obtained her BSN from Southern New Hampshire University in 2016 and her Masters of Science in Nursing from Frontier Nursing University in 2019. After graduating, she began her career as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Alliance Medical Associates in Burlington, North Carolina, and started her doctoral work in the summer of 2019. She has a particular interest in the areas of LGBTQ and Mental Health Issues in primary care settings.