Teaching Professor
Brigham Young University
Sondra Heaston began her nursing career in 1986. Currently she is a Teaching Professor at Brigham Young University College of Nursing in Provo, Utah teaching undergraduate nursing students and an Urgent Care Nurse Practitioner for Premier Family Medical Urgent Care Clinic. She has been a nurse practitioner for 17 years and prior to that, she worked as a registered nurse in the emergency department for 20 years. She has mentored over 2000 undergraduate nursing students in the critical care and emergency setting. She has been the Course Coordinator for the critical care skills and simulation course for the past 16 years. She has also taught nearly 200 graduate and undergraduate nursing students internationally, in the hospital and community setting, leading study abroad programs. She has been an author on 18 journal articles, published abstracts, or book chapters and has had over 50 presentations at professional conferences. She has published and presented on emergency nursing topics of end-of-life care, head injury, and compassion fatigue as well as global health topics of anemia in school-aged children of Ecuador and teenage pregnancy in Paraguay. Since 1992, she has been a Certified Emergency Nurse, she has been a Certified Nurse Educator for the past six years, and recently became a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator last year.