Associate Professor
AdventHealth University
Dr. Hernandez has been a nurse since 2009. She started teaching in prelicensure nursing programs in 2015 in another university while working in the hospital. She has been a nursing faculty at AHU since 2021. Her degrees include BSN – Far Eastern University-Manila, Philippines, MSN – Grand Canyon University-Phoenix, AZ (With an Emphasis on Nursing Education), and Ph.D. in Nursing – Florida Atlantic University- Boca Raton, FL. Currently, she teaches Foundation of Nursing, Adult Health II, and NCLEX-RN Immersion I for the BSN Program. She serves on a variety of committees in the Department of Nursing at AHU. Her research interests include caring, care transition and coordination, patient outcomes, and teaching-learning strategies and outcomes. She is a cardiovascular intensive care unit nurse and acute/chronic dialysis nurse. Dr. Hernandez serves as a Peer Reviewer of multiple journals (American Journal of Critical Care, Journal of Nursing Scholarship, American Nurse Journal). In addition, she is also an ACEN (Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing) Peer Evaluator. She was nominated for Daisy Award multiple times at another university and as one of the 2022 NLN Mary Adelaide Nutting Awards for Outstanding Teaching or Leadership in Nursing Education. She continues to support this institution in the city as a mission volunteer. She has a variety of peer-reviewed nursing publications in multiple journals and actively participates in different local, national, and international conferences.