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Pat Jackson Allen joined the faculty of Yale School of Nursing in the Spring of 2003 to teach in the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Specialty. She taught for the last 20 years at the University of California, San Francisco and was director of the Advanced Practice Pediatric Nursing Program there for over 10 years. She obtained her Bachelor's Degree from the University of Connecticut, training at Yale New Haven Hospital, where she worked on the adolescent unit upon graduation. She then obtained her Master's Degree in Maternal-Child Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco and 15 years later, her certificate as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. Pat Jackson Allen was instrumental in establishing a pediatric nurse managed community-based full service clinic for children and adolescents in San Francisco, Valencia Health Services. She practiced and precepted students in this nurse managed center for ten years. She was the primary author of a successful five year, Division of Nursing, Basic Nurse Education and Practice Program grant supporting nurse education at Valencia Health Services, 2002-2007.
Her area of professional scholarship focuses on the primary care needs of children with chronic health conditions. She co-edits a major textbook, Primary Care of the Child with a Chronic Condition, and the fourth edition was released in December 2003. Her current research interest is in the role development and advanced practice functions of recent pediatric nurse practitioner graduates, tracking their expanding practice into specialty care, both inpatient and outpatient.
She currently practices one day a week at the Yale University Pediatric Primary Care Center as an APRN.
Elected to the American Academy of Nursing, 1995
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, Outstanding Nurse Practitioner Educator Award, 2003
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, President's Award, For Outstanding Leadership for PNP's in Nontraditional Roles, 2003
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