Assistant Dean, MSN & DNP Programs & Professor
Dr. Palmer earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Duke University. She began her nursing career in critical care, with experience in both critical care step-down and surgical-trauma intensive care. At the bedside, she became interested in the impact of chronic illness on overall health and recovery from acute conditions. She became an Adult Nurse Practitioner to work with chronically ill patients in a primary care setting. She is a Professor at the School of Nursing at UNC Chapel Hill, with a concentration in adult health, geriatrics, and evidence-based practice. She teaches in the MSN and DNP program.
In addition to teaching, she maintains a clinical practice at UNC Internal Medicine Panther Creek, where she specializes in adult primary care and chronic illness management. Her doctoral work focused on evaluating a depression care program within the Internal Medicine Clinic in a population of patients with diabetes. She has presented across the state on diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia, and chronic anticoagulation.
She is an active member of the North Carolina Nurses Association, the American Nurses Association, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, and the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning.
Honors and Awards:
2023 – Anne Belcher Interprofessional Scholar, UNC-Chapel Hill
2021 – Nursing Outlook – Best Paper, Practice Category for “The role of Doctor of Nursing Practice-prepared nurses in practice settings”
Kellish, A. A., Walters, E., Vernon-Platt, T., Palmer, C., & Durham, C. (in press). The future of graduate nurse practitioner education: A case for simulation. In Clinical Simulations: An Essential Guide for Advanced Practice Nursing Educators. Wolters Kluwer.
Agnew, A., Hickey, J., Rocha, E., Nelson, G., Palmer, C., & Ross, H. (2023). Innovation Advisory Committee – Policy and Determinants of Health Innovation Guide. Retrieved from https://www.nursingworld.org/~494596/globalassets/innovation/guide/iac-policy-determinants-of-health_20230313.pdf
Palmer, C. (2023). Anticoagulation for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation. Nursing Clinics of North America, 58, 379-387. doi: 10.1016/j.cnur.2023.05.005
Carlton, L., Woods-Giscombe, C. L., Palmer, C. & Rodgers, S. G. (2021). Barbers as community health advocates for African American men: A.D.A.A.M.-QR web design to address social determinants of depression and access to culturally-relevant resources. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 35, 137-140. doi: 10.1016/j.apnu.2020.10.009
Palmer, C. (2020). Practical Approaches to Pharmacologic Management of Type 2 Diabetes in Older Adults. American Nurse, 15, 6-10.
Beeber, A. S., Palmer, C., Waldrop, J., Lynn, M. R., & Jones, C. (2019). The role of doctor of nursing practice-prepared nurses in practice settings. Nursing Outlook, 67, 354-364. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2019.02.006.
Palmer, C. (2019). New directions in managing dyslipidemia. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 15(1), 73-79. doi:10.1016/j.nurpra.2018.08.033
Palmer, C. (2017). Providing self-management education to patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: Addressing basic nutrition and hypoglycemia. The Nurse Practitioner, 42, 26-42. doi: 10.1097/01.NPR.0000525719.99231.41
Palmer, C., Vorderstrasse, A., Weil, A., Colford, C., & Dolan-Soto, D. (2015). Evaluation of a depression screening and treatment program in primary care for patients with diabetes mellitus: Insights and future directions. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 27(3), 131-136. doi: 10.1002/2327-6924.12149
Palmer, C. (2013). Dyslipidemia in adults: How recent research and recommendations affect nurse practitioner practice. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 9(10), 669-678. doi:10.1016/jnurpra.2013.08.017
Palmer, C., & Jessup, A. (2012). Ketoacidosis in a patient with type 2 diabetes. The Nurse Practitioner, 37(5), 13-17. doi:10.1097/01.NPR.0000413492.49324.97