Elizabeth G. Kuchler

DNP, MSN, ARPN, FNP-BC

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College Assistant Professor
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico Nursing Professor of Practice
Director of Clinical Placements Nurse Practitioner Programs

ekuchler@nmsu.edu
575-646-3787
HSSA 202

Dr Kuchler Has a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree with a Family Nurse Practitioner Board Certification.  Dr Kuchler was recently honored with the first in New Mexico Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico Professor of Practice. She is also the Director of Clinical Placements Nurse Practitioner programs. She has over 40 years of nursing experience that includes:

Hospital(25 years): Staff nurse on Medical/Surgical, and  ICU, Discharge Planning, Case and Utilization Management, Auditing, and Assistant Compliance Officer.

New Mexico Department of Public Health(12 Years): Main Focus was Hepatitis C treatment providing care across southern New Mexico in partnership with Dr Sanjeev Arora and Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes(ECHO) telehealth program at the University of New Mexico. Provided Women’s Health in Las Cruces and surrounding cities, healthcare to the homeless/near homeless at St Luke’s (now Amador Health), and STD/Women’s Health at the Dona Ana County Detention Center. In 2015 she was selected for the Leaders Across Borders program with the United States Border Health Commission.

New Mexico State University School of Nursing(7 years) : Teaching  part-time in the undergraduate program progressing to fulltime graduate professor.

Overlapping Practice as an FNP (15 years): Urgent Care and Internal Medicine at local organization

Areas of interest include but not limited to  public/population health, adolescent health, substance use disorder(SUD) and opioid use disorders(OUD), epidemiology, family health and quality health care outcomes.

Education

DNP, Doctor of Nursing Practice, New Mexico State University
MSN, University of Saint Francis
BSN, Nursing, New Mexico State University
Associate Degree of Nursing, New Mexico State University

Awards & Honors

  • Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico Nursing Professor of Practice Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico, Frist to be Awarded in the State of New Mexico
  • 2020 Outstanding Women of the Mesilla Valley, Las Cruces Bulletin
  • S.-Mexico Border Health Commission-selected and attended: Leaders Across Borders Program 2015
  • Nominated for New Mexico Nursing Excellence Award- Family Nurse Practitioner, New Mexico Center for Nursing Excellence 2014.
  • Phi Kappa Phi University Honor Society (International)
  • Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society (International)

Clinical Focus

  • Public/Population Health
  • Family Health
  • Quality Improvement
  • Adolescent Health
  • Substance Use/Opioid Use Disorders

Selected Publications

  • Kuchler, E. G., Garner, L., Whitten, L., DeBlieck, C. J., Farra, S., Davis, R., et al. (2020). A SWOT analysis– A study of Association of Community/Public Health Nursing Educators members. Public Health Nursing, 10. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15251446
  • Giron, K., Noe, S.H.,  Saiki, L.S., Kuchler, E.G., Rao,S.,  Implementation of a Postpartum Depression Screening for Women Participating in the WIC Program. Accepted :JAPNA-2019-QU-072.R4 https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jap
  • Nance, A. R., Saiki, L. S., Kuchler, E. G., DeBlieck, C. J., Forster-Cox, S. (2020). Hepatitis C Treatment at a Rural Navajo Health Clinic Using Project ECHO. To appear in Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 20(2). http://doi.org/10.14574/ojrnhc.v20i2.634
  • Breitkreuz, K. R., Kardong-Edgren, S., Gilbert, G. E., DeBlieck, C. J., Maske, M., Hallock, C., Lanzara, S., Parrish, K., Rossler, K., Turkelson, C., Ellertson, A., Brown, K. N., Swetavage, T., Werb, M., Kuchler, E. G., Saiki, L. S., Noe, S. R. (2020). A multi-site study examining the usability of a virtual reality game designed to improve retention of sterile catheterization skills in nursing students. Simulation & Gaming, 2020, 1-15.
  • Larason, N., DeBlieck, C. J., Lynch, S. R., Saiki, L. S., Kuchler, E. G., Kopera-Frye, K. (2020). Implementation of the WHO Safe Surgery Checklist in a Regional Hospital Cardiovascular Lab. Cath Lab Digest, Volume 28(Issue 10), 1 to 5. https://www.cathlabdigest.com/content/implementation-who-safe-surgery-checklist-regional-hospital-cardiovascular-lab
  • DeBlieck, C. J., Summers, L. C., Saiki, L. S., Kuchler, E., Noe, S. R., Lynch, S. R., et al. (2020). Charting Cognitive Growth of Nursing Students Using Linguistic Software. Nurse Educator, 45(1).
  • Saiki, L. S., Kuchler, E. G. (2019). Chronic Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection Presenting as Urgency Urinary Incontinence in a Postmenopausal Woman (vol. 48, pp. S156). JOGNN: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing; Proceedings of the 2019 AWHONN Convention.
  • Borges, W. (Presenter), Summers, L. C. (Presenter), Kuchler, E. G. (Presenter), Pattison, D. (Presenter), Andozola, J. (Presenter), Better Together:  Integration of Nursing Research, Practice, and Education - 2021, "CoVID to Home: An Innovative Approach to Freeing Hospital Beds," Western Institute of Nursing, Virtual Conference. (April 14, 2021).
  • Summers, L. C., DeBlieck, C. J., Lynch, S. R., Kuchler, E. G., Noe, S. R., Graham, K., Better Together:  Integration of Nursing Research, Practice, and Education - 2021, "Integrating SUD/OUD into Family Nurse Practitioner Education," Western Institute of Nursing, virtual Online. (April 14, 2021).
  • Greenwald, R., Summers, L. C., Gherardi, S. A., DeBlieck, C. J., England-Kennedy, E., Kuchler, E. G., Shin, D. Y., Kratzke, C., Better Together:  Integration of Nursing Research, Practice, and Education - 2021, "Online Interprofessional Education in the College of Health and Social Services at NMSU," Western Institute of Nursing, Virtual - Online. (April 14, 2021).
  • DeBlieck, C. J., Kuchler, E. G., Summers, L. C., Noe, S. R., NMSU 2021 Quality in Online Education Conference, "Functionality of Flipgrid in Online Classroom Environment," NMSU - Teaching Academy, Online. (March 12, 2021).
  • DeBlieck, C. J., Kuchler, E. G., Summers, L. C., Noe, S. R., Quality in Online Education Conference, "Functionality of Flipgrid in the online Classroom," NMSU, virtual. (March 12, 2021).